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seyMour’s puBlic enTities, eDith’s maKe-ing conVersation & DeSign ReViews
“Learning … happens especially felicitously in a context where the learner is consciously engaged in constructing a public entity.” Seymour Papert “Papert is interested in how learners engage in a...
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Informal Maker Programs Make Deep Connections
Ten months ago, I left the familiarity of the formal classroom setting in pursuit of practices in constructionism, free of the tyranny of standardardized testing and a one size fits all curriculum....
View ArticleThree Cs Webinar – Constructivism, Constructionism, and Critical Pedagogy
This video is the first of a couple of webinars with the FabLearn Fellows about some of the big ideas of education that support digital fabrication and making in education. Along with several of the...
View ArticleFabLearn Fellows webinar – guest Gary Stager
Watch this FabLearn Fellow webinar with special guest Gary Stager. Gary spoke on the topic of “Constructionism and Teaching.” We covered a lot of ground in this webinar including: constructivism,...
View ArticleFabLearn webinar – What does “Maker Mindset” look like in the real world?
Watch this FabLearn webinar about what the “Maker Mindset” looks like in real learning spaces. The FabLearn Fellows discuss the topic with Sylvia Martinez and Paulo Blikstein, director of the FabLearn...
View ArticleFabLearn webinar – What is the “Maker Mindset”?
Watch this FabLearn Fellow webinar. The topic is “Maker Mindset” – what does it mean for modern learning spaces? http://fellows.fablearn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/zoom_maker_mindset_1.mp4 This...
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Challenges, Constraints, Competition?
Stick with me, this is a bit of a long story to get to some things I am thinking about in terms of making in the classroom. I can now check one thing off that bucket list, I won a blue ribbon at the...
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3 P’s for Constructionist Learning
Studies show that a curious mind is fertile ground for learning, so combining the freedom of play and exploration with more structured learning goals is a more powerful formula than a 100% teacher...
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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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