Takeaway one: I want to open a maker space. I loved how Martinez and Stager provided clear plans for opening a maker space in the classroom. We had a guest speaker in artistic development yesterday who talked about his experience running a fab lab at a private all girls high school on the Upper West Side. It was really interesting to hear about the kind of creative projects that the students were doing and I am very interested in thinking about how I might open up a small part of my classroom as a maker space in the future. However he had significant funding for his fab lab and this might not be the case when I become a teacher. Reading Martinez and Stager’s advice on how to use or reuse old technology and recyclable materials to foster creative thinking was very exciting. You don’t need 3-D printers, laser cutters, and CNC routers to have a maker space that encourages independent creative thinking.
“The old and the new, high- and low-tech make such beautiful music!”
Takeaway two: I am terrified of creative coding. I feel like a child terrified of learning math. However the reading from Pepplar’s book made me feel like this may be good for my students. I will be learning like them and experiencing the visual scaffolding like them and will have recent memories of problem solving through the programs.
“The old and the new, high- and low-tech make such beautiful music!”
Takeaway two: I am terrified of creative coding. I feel like a child terrified of learning math. However the reading from Pepplar’s book made me feel like this may be good for my students. I will be learning like them and experiencing the visual scaffolding like them and will have recent memories of problem solving through the programs.
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