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A Makerspace Toolbox:
Getting Started with Inquiry-Based STEM Labs
Are you ready for your students to imagine, construct, create, and innovate?
Presented by: Susan Wells, Founder CEO TechTerra Education
Today is a nuts and bolts maker session of active learning incorporating inquiry based thinking into your hands-on STEM makerspace. You will have hands-on experience in this workshop with tangible and digital tools of the STEM Maker Lab to maximize exploring coding, robotics, circuitry and electronics, micro- controllers, augmented and virtual reality, and invention kits. Explore resources available for creating your own inquiry-based activities for your classroom.
Why STEM and Maker Ed?
• Constructivism
• Creating not Consuming
• Innovation
Learning Today
Not left brain or right brain but One Brain. Suggests Greg Watts, dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas
Honoring 4’s CsCreationCritical ThinkingCollaborationCommunication
Teaching Today
PersonalizedProject-basedCompetency-basedStudent autonomy-focusedInquiry-based
Driven more by a learner's questions than by a teacher's lessons. Teaching "how to learn" is more important than any particular information being presented.
Spaces
"Makerspaces are increasingly being looked to as a method for engaging learners in creative, higher-order problem-solving through hands-on design, construction, and iteration” –New Media Consortium Horizon Report K-12 Edition
Tools and Resources
Remember Print Resources
Organizing for Project-based Learning
Coding Tools Robotics
Invention Kits AR/VR
Digital Fabrication Circuitry & Electronics
Making & Design Drones
Connected Tools Print Resources
Students are...
EngagedInvestedProblem-solversConfidentWorking with powerful tools & powerful ideasInvolved in authentic work for the real world
Susan Wels
Founder CEO TechTerra Education
ISTE Mobile Learning Network President
http://www.techterraeducation.com
@techterraed
@wellssusans
