Maker Educators – We need your help at the Maker Playground @ ISTE 2014
At the upcoming 2014 ISTE Conference in Atlanta, the Independent School Special Interest Group (SIG-IS) is organizing one of the many playgrounds that will be at the conference.
Our playground, Maker Playground and Agile Learning Spaces will be held on the last day of the conference, Tuesday, July 1st from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. This playground will be set up to:
- To provide a hands-on, interactive maker’s environment for attendees to explore
- To create a prototype agile learning space that demonstrates “new” classroom ideas
- To demonstrate some of the new digital fabrication tools in used in schools to fuel innovation
- To provide a framework on how to create or expand your own maker spaces
- To provide curricular connections in all curricular areas: Arts, STEM, Humanities, and Languages
We are looking for teachers who are attending ISTE and who will be willing to share their expertise and volunteer time to present in our playground. We will have stations to share a la a poster session, tables for low-tech creating and making, and two small theater areas for group demonstrations.
If you are interested in participating or know someone who will be at the conference and would be perfect for us, please fill out the following form – http://goo.gl/Epi7km
This post by Sylvia Martinez was originally published on the Invent to Learn blog. It is republished here from http://www.inventtolearn.com/maker-educators-we-need-your-help-at-the-maker-playground-iste-2014/ with permission of the author.
Sylvia is co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, often called the "bible" of the maker movement in classrooms. Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student-centered, project-based learning, gender equity in technology, computer programming, and life-long learning. For the past ten years, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, a non-profit with a mission of empowering young people to improve their schools and communities with modern technology. Previous to Generation YES, Sylvia was in charge of product development at several software publishers, designing and creating video games and educational software. Sylvia also had a career in aerospace engineering as a senior scientist on the GPS navigational satellite system research and development. She holds a masters in educational technology and a bachelors in electrical engineering. Along with Gary Stager, Sylvia facilitates the Constructing Modern Knowledge Institute every summer. Constructing Modern Knowledge, July 8-11, 2014, is a minds-on institute for educators committed to creativity, collaboration and computing. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in intensive computer-rich project development with peers and a world-class faculty. Inspirational guest speakers and social events round out the fantastic event. Pete Nelson, Edith Ackermann, Mitchel Resnick, and other expert visionaries (tba) are among this year’s guest speakers. Rather than spend days listening to a series of speakers, Constructing Modern Knowledge is about action. Attendees will work and interact with educational experts concerned with maximizing the potential of every learner. For more information, visit http://constructingmodernknowledge.com/.
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