A Path for Success in Learning by Making: Follow, Tinker, Play, Share |
Explore and create : Creation lab
Thursday, December 3, 11:15 am–12:45 pm PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Bea Leiderman Dr. William Rankin
Studies, testimonials and even neuroscience point to the benefits of learning by making (constructionism), but teachers and learners sometimes struggle with getting started. This engaging, interactive session will introduce a simple strategy for moving from novice to maker — and participants will use the very same strategy in the workshop.
Audience: | Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty, Technology coordinators/facilitators |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS |
Participant accounts, software and other materials: | n/a. Materials will be supplied in session. |
Topic: | Project-, problem- & challenge-based learning |
Grade level: | 6-12 |
Subject area: | STEM/STEAM |
ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Facilitator
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Additional detail: | Session recorded for video-on-demand |
The goal of this session is to help teachers leverage the 3 dimensions of learning (content/community/context),a model which I presented at ISTE 2018 and ISTE 2016 and which I've been developing for about a decade (https://unfoldlearning.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/dimensions-of-cubic-learning1.pdf).
This will be augmented with a new structural model: follow/tinker/play/share that leverages a progressive strategy for implementing constructionist and maker learning and gives teachers a productive strategy for incorporating project-based and maker learning in their classes — even if they or their students don't know quite how to get started.
Attendees will work through an initial design scenario and will then modify it to fit their local purposes in the tinker and play phases, and they'll leave both with something they can deploy in their schools and with the experience of having used this model.
Learners will also be familiar with the terms and concepts of communities of practice, constructionism, and project-based learning.
Improvisation activities: attendee participation (8 minutes)
Communities of practice & cubic learning: lecture (12 minutes)
Learning activity 'bake off': follow: attendee participation (10 minutes)
Learning activity 'bake off': tinker: attendee participation (10 minutes)
Learning activity 'bake off': play: attendee participation (20 minutes)
Learning activity 'bake off': share: attendee participation (10 minutes)
Concluding thoughts: lecture (10 minutes)
Q&A: attendee participation (10 minutes)
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Dr William Rankin is a learning-experience and learning-frameworks designer and educational theorist who served as worldwide Director of Learning at Apple from 2013 through 2016. An academic with more than 25 years of classroom experience, Rankin helped design the world’s first iOS-based 1:1 learning program for higher education, for which he was named Campus Technology magazine’s 2008 Innovator of the Year for mobile learning. He has worked with schools, governments, and organizations in more than 30 countries to design, develop, and implement innovative learning and is an expert in mobile- and technology-enhanced learning and constructionism.
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