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“Push Me!” Teaching Paper Electronics to a Crowd with a Switch Sampler
Boston’s Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is a 16-year-old maker program where annually 36 teens of color to learn, build and then teach 6 different technology, coding, and engineering modules. Each year...
View ArticleFabLearn webinar with guest Tony Perry of the Lehmlson-MIT Invention...
We are pleased to share a recent webinar with guest Tony Perry, Invention Education Coordinator at the Lemelson-MIT Program that celebrates outstanding inventors and inspires young people to pursue...
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Middle School Sewing Elective Version 2
I co-teach a sewing elective for middle school students. This is the second version, the first ended in some frustration, so we stopped offering it for a while, and I went on to be part of other...
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Maker Teacher in the Classroom: What should I do for students (and what...
As a maker, one of the things I like is spending a great deal of time on something, going deep, and feeling that the result is really due to my hard work. I have taken up quilting recently, because it...
View ArticleFabLearn Webinar – Assessment strategies for maker courses
We are pleased to share a recent webinar led by Daniel Schermele with several FabLearn Fellows in a conversation about assessment strategies for maker courses. The conversation included: Intent of...
View ArticleCS, Diversity and Education
I was a middle school teacher for three years before I confronted the reality that teaching public school and a financially safe future in the Bay Area don’t add up. Especially with a baby on the way....
View ArticleFabLearn Conversation with Nalin Tutiyaphuengprasert – Making in the time of...
In this video conversation, Nalin Tutiyaphuengprasert speaks with Sylvia Martinez about how the DSIL Fab Lab in Bangkok Thailand is working with local hospitals and medical professionals to design,...
View ArticlePapert’s Eight Big Ideas translated to Arabic
In 1999, Seymour Papert, the father of educational technology, embarked on his last ambitious institutional research project when he created the constructionist, technology-rich, project-based,...
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Making Remotely: Sending Embroidery Kits Home and Teaching on Zoom
In the fall my school was fully remote, but we had the opportunity to send supplies home before class started. I was ambitious, and I put together two different sets of making supplies as well as...
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FabLearn Fellows – Winter 2020/2021
So there’s a lot happening behind the scenes with the FabLearn Fellows! The new cohort is starting to meet, virtually, of course. New blog posts and videos will be coming soon. We are in the very early...
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