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Interactive Maker Projects: Student Showcase Projects Made Stellar
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Wednesday, June 26, 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Location: Posters: Level 4, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 7

Roger Wagner  
People's Choice winner. Attend this session to see how Inexpensive devices like the BBC micro:bit and Arduino now make it possible to link student-made videos and other digital media to classic classroom projects such as dioramas and posterboards, while also creating a springboard to coding and robotics.

Audience: Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Skill level: Beginner
Attendee devices: Devices not needed
Focus: Digital age teaching & learning
Topic: Maker activities and programs
Subject area: STEM/STEAM, Computer science
ISTE Standards: For Students:
Creative Communicator
  • Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
Empowered Learner
  • Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
Knowledge Constructor
  • Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Attendees will see examples of student-created curriculum-based physical-digital projects made in a classroom and/or makerspace. A variety of grade levels, subject areas and media types will be represented. Attendees will also see practical applications of the BBC micro:bit and Arduino in these types of projects.

Interactive student projects using these technologies have been chosen by educators and shared at state-level conferences in including CUE, MASSCUE, ICE, MACUL and others.

Supporting research

How the Maker Movement is Transforming Education http://www.weareteachers.com/hot-topics/special-reports/how-the-maker- movement- is-transforming-education
http://microbit.org/ https://makecode.com/

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Presenters

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Roger Wagner, HyperDuino MakerBit

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