MakerEd blog post on story of MIT K-12 Maker project, and Fall PD for Maker educators

[Diane Brancazio]

While promoting our Fall training (Master Making in the Classroom) I wrote a short account of my 10-year journey in the world of Maker education. Dale Dougherty has graciously posted it on the MakerEd Substack blog: Students need Maker projects. Here’s how to deliver them. As is probably true for many people on this list, building comes much easier to me than writing. The process of recalling, reflecting, and recounting was super hard, but definitely worthwhile and satisfying to me. I encourage you all to take some time to write up your own story and celebrate your personal progress and the contributions you are making to the students in your communities.

Whatever level you are at in making or education, I invite you to take advantage of the years of experiences and contributions that went into creating the Master Making in the Classroom workshop series, and join us this Fall. You’ll be trained and coached in bringing teachers from every subject into the makerspace and in creating opportunities for students to build, design, and express their ideas with creative “techy” tools. While most of the materials are available on our website k12maker.mit.edu, the MMC training will help you use those resources effectively in a community of practice, with coaching along the way. In order to make this resource available to as many educators as possible, we’re running two separate cohorts: one workshop series is fully remote via Zoom, and one is on campus at our MIT Edgerton Center makerspace. The cost per person is $1150 for either series, and includes coaching in between sessions. We keep this cost as low as possible to make the PD accessible and to encourage educators to participate with a colleague.

Learn more and apply at k12maker.mit.edu/master-making-in-the-classroom

 

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Be well.

Diane

 

Diane Brancazio | K-12 Maker Team Leader 

MIT Edgerton Center | Office of Experiential Learning  
77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139

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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."  - Antoine de Saint Exupéry