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Creating an Inclusive Makerspace with Student Voice

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Colorado Convention Center, 103/5

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Cholla Middle School
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STEM Educator
Cholla Middle School
@canotechmachine
@canotechmachine
Technology and a passion for STEM. She has spent the last 8 years creating and growing her Makerspace, and has a passion for empowering learners, focusing on helping students go from consumer to creator and innovator. She strives to incorporate emerging new tech to her underrepresented students. One day, she hopes STEM will no longer be separated but integrated into core classes. She loves coaching teachers in technology, AI, digital citizenship, and much more! Come chat with her about tech!
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Cholla Middle School
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Steam Teacher
Mountain Sky Middle School
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Makerspace
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Cholla Middle School

Session description

Come learn how to create an inclusive Makerspace for all learners that is driven through student voice. Hear from STEAM teachers on how open-ended lessons can empower learners to take risks, make classroom decisions without sacrificing learning, and take on leadership roles while honing STEAM and 21st century skills.

Purpose & objective

Participants will be able to implement problem-based open-ended challenges to students within a STEAM environment regardless of funding or technology availability.
Participants will see the workings and benefits of a problem-based classroom with student voice integrated.
Participants will be able to utilize shared lessons and strategies within their own class of any demographic.

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Outline

5 minutes - Introduce self and background
20 minutes - Problem Based Activities utilized in classroom, progression of lessons throughout the quarter with increased student voice
15 minutes - Student portion of presentation - Explaining what their level of involvement is in lessons and activities, how it has helped them or given them student voice.
15 minutes - Strategies, suggestions, and resources.
5 minutes - Questions
Wakelet, and padlet will be used for engagement as well as for questions to be answered by the end of class.

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Supporting research

https://www.learntechlib.org/p/151970/
https://www.edutopia.org/article/promoting-student-led-learning-elementary-school/
https://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/teaching-learning/resources/teaching-strategies/problem-based-learning-(pbl)#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20course%20content,Duch%20et%20al%2C%202001).
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ940100.pdf

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Session specifications

Topic:
Maker activities and programs
Grade level:
6-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Library media specialists, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Subject area:
Computer science, STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:
For Educators:
Facilitator
  • Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.
For Students:
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.
Computational Thinker
  • Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.