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Making to Learn About the Civil Rights Movement through Sewing and Textiles

January 13, 2020 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Making to Learn About the Civil Rights Movement through Sewing and Textiles

Our approach to professional development is intentionally designed to be experiential, where educators actively participate from the perspectives of their learners as a way to reflect on their own practice, facilitation, and design of maker centered learning experiences. To support educators from a variety of environments, we also integrate making experiences that represent a diversity of subject areas and media of making—making sure to develop authentic tasks in meaningful contexts. During a recent Approaches to Maker Education workshop, we combined a history lesson plan with sewing and textiles. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Lesson Plans, Project Ideas, social studies

Wheel of Documentation: Workshop Takeaways

December 23, 2019 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Wheel of Documentation: Workshop Takeaways

How can documentation support assessment? How do you know when learners know? What types of learning do we value, but don’t normally assess? In our recent two-day, hands-on workshop, Documenting for Assessment, we explored these questions while developing a variety of tools and strategies to make learning visible and broaden our notion of what is assessable. One of the tools we have been integrating into our workshops is a Documentation Prompt Jar. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Reflections

Examining Social Justice Themes through micro:bit and Scratch

November 20, 2019 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Examining Social Justice Themes through micro:bit and Scratch

Weaving together themes of social justice with ELA standards, block-based programming with Scratch, and physical computing with micro:bit, this series of linked activities from our Approaches to Maker Education workshop showcased a learning progression that integrated all three of our Approaches to Curriculum Integration: Tinkering to Discover, Making to Learn, and the Application Project. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops

Institute Day Five: Equity Maps, Resources, and Final Reflections

October 30, 2019 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Institute Day Five: Equity Maps, Resources, and Final Reflections

After working all week on identifying resources around curriculum integration, program development, and assessment through the lens of equity and sustainability, we had the opportunity to share and present all of our work with each other. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Institute

Institute Day Four: Creating and Prototyping Resources

September 30, 2019 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Institute Day Four: Creating and Prototyping Resources

On Day Four of our summer Institute, we started the morning with an equity session centered on the Ready for Rigor framework provided in Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond. This framework outlines four areas of practice of culturally responsive teaching that enable us to support learners to become more independent: awareness, learning partnerships, information processing, and community of learners & learning environments. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Institute

Institute Day Three: Culture, Strands, and Ideation

September 25, 2019 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Institute Day Three: Culture, Strands, and Ideation

In order to reflect on how culture impacts our learners, we started Day Three of our Summer Institute by asking participants to consider their own cultural roots through Zaretta Hammond’s representation of the culture tree. Based on this reading and our equity session on Day Two, participants created a physical representation of their own culture trees and reflected on the ways the three levels of culture showed up in their learning environment. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Institute

Institute Day Two: Tinkering, Values, Identity, and Strand Debuts

September 18, 2019 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Institute Day Two: Tinkering, Values, Identity, and Strand Debuts

We believe that starting with an understanding of why we value maker education is important. So after surfacing our intentions as maker educators on Day One of our Summer Institute, we participated in a Values Mapping activity as a whole group on Day Two. Then, participants split up into one of their choice-based Learning Strands: Program Development & Planning, Activity/Curriculum Design & Facilitation, or Assessment & Evaluation. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Institute

Institute Day One: Introductions and Intention-Setting

June 25, 2019 by Keyana Stevens Leave a Comment

Institute Day One: Introductions and Intention-Setting

Yesterday we welcomed 32 educators from 8 states to our Community Studio for our inaugural summer Institute! We’re so excited to learn in collaboration with our new colleagues for the next 4 days. Here are some photos from our first half-day of programming, during which participants got to know each other, shared some snacks, and set their learning goals and intentions for the week. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Institute

We’re Moving! Introducing Our New East Bay Home

November 13, 2018 by Maker Ed Staff 2 Comments

We’re Moving! Introducing Our New East Bay Home

This December, the Maker Ed team will be moving to a new location in the East Bay, which will serve as a destination maker-centered training center and event space! We envision a place where we can continue to test and iterate on our learning, deepen our own practice, train and convene educators, and build a validated, professional field for maker education together. Read more…

Filed Under: News, Workshops

Engaging Maker Educators a World Away: Similarities and Differences in Singapore

March 29, 2017 by Stephanie Chang Leave a Comment

Engaging Maker Educators a World Away: Similarities and Differences in Singapore

In the middle of March 2017, Daniella Shoshan and Stephanie Chang criss-crossed the globe to run professional development workshops in Singapore. Here, they reflect on their experiences.

Filed Under: Community, Professional Development, Workshops

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