Ask a Maker Educator is an online video series designed to support educators with their questions and help them further their ideas. In each video, we dive deeply into a specific topic related to making and maker education, exploring this topic in a recorded conversation between an expert guest and a Maker Ed staff member, a live Twitter chat, and a variety of other connected content.
We are no longer recording new Ask a Maker Educator videos, but you can view all of our existing videos by clicking on the links below.
Previous Episodes by Month:
January 2018
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 30, 2018 | Kayla Canario and Donna Gobbell, Bearden Middle School, Tennessee | Involving & Empowering Young Learners | %CODEexpandIcon% |
June 2017
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 21, 2017 | Gaelyn Jenkins, Riverside Middle School, South Carolina | Maker Learning in Greenville, SC | %CODEexpandIcon% |
May 2017
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2017 | Mary Wegner, Superintendent, Sitka School District & Cindy Duncan, Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary School | Maker Learning in Sitka, Alaska | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| May 10, 2017 | Casey Shea & Anna Van Dordrecht, Sonoma County Office of Education | Academics and Maker Education | %CODEexpandIcon% |
April 2017
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 26, 2017 | Peter Wardrip, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh & Mindy Porter, Scott Family Amazeum | Crowdfunding for Making in Schools | %CODEexpandIcon% |
March 2017
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 29, 2017 | Crystal Le & Maria Renteria, VISTA Members at Grass Valley Elementary | Ask a Maker VISTA | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| March 29, 2017 | David Wells, New York Hall of Science | Facilitating Maker Learning Experiences | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| March 22, 2017 | Jacie Hood, Forth Worth Museum of Science and History and Rebecca Grabman, MAKESHOP at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh | Making in Museum Spaces | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| March 15, 2017 | Suzette Duncan | Developing Inclusive Maker Education Practices | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| March 1, 2017 | Marcos Navas, Technology Coordinator at Union City Board of Education, New Jersey | %CODEexpandIcon% |
February 2017
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2017 | Tom Ralston & Pam Moran | Ask a Maker Educator, Superintendents Edition | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Christa Flores, author of Making Science | Problem Based Science | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Feb 8, 2017 | Jackie Moore, Level UP Makerspace | %CODEexpandIcon% | |
| Feb 1, 2017 | Kennan Scott, West Oakland Middle School | Middle School Engineering & Design Thinking | %CODEexpandIcon% |
January 2017
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2017 | Donna Sangwin, ReCreate | Making and Creative Reuse | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Jan 18, 2017 | Laura Fleming, Worlds of Learning | Choosing Materials for Your Makerspace | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Jan 11, 2017 | Gina Silveira, Principal, Schaefer Charter School (Santa Rosa, CA) & Melissa Becker, Principal, Meadow Elementary (Petaluma, CA) | Ask a Maker Educator, Administrator Edition | %CODEexpandIcon% |
December 2016
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 2016 | Ashanti Davis, Fleet Science Center & Ryan Jenkins, The Tinkering Studio at The Exploratorium | Computational Tinkering | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Dec 14, 2016 | Gina Thankrey, Skline School’s STREAM Lab | Making & Project Based Learning | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Dec 7, 2016 | Mark Schreiber, Design Case Consulting | Assessing and Integrating Maker Learning Across Subjects | %CODEexpandIcon% |
November 2016
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 2016 | Kim Mesa, Alum Rock Educational Foundation | Equity, Access and Community Building Through Afterschool Maker Programs | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Nov 9, 2016 | Elissa Malespina, Teacher Librarian at Somerville Middle School (NJ) & IdaMae Craddock, Library Media Specialist at Burley Middle School (VA) | Making & Student Engagement with Library Spaces | %CODEexpandIcon% |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Robert Pronovost, Founder of EmpowerMINT | Making in Title I Schools | %CODEexpandIcon% |
October 2016
| Date | Name | Topic | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2016 | Doug Baldwin, Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Piscataway Public Library | Exploring Making in Libraries | %CODEexpandIcon% |