7 steps to better educate future innovative engineers & designers
1. 7 Steps to Better Educate Future
Innovative Engineers & Designers
Jonathan E. Martin
March, 2012
Simple K12 Webinar
2. Jonathan E. Martin
• 10 years experience teaching High School History
• 15 years experience principal, PK-12.
• Currently educational writer and consultant
• www.21k12blog.net
• Twitter: @JonathanEMartin
• jonathanemartin@gmail.com
3. “We need to out-innovate, out-
educate, and out-build the rest
of the world…That’s how we’ll
win the future.”
~President Obama
2011 State of the Union
5. 1. Striking the Chord
2. Putting Problems First
3. Doing the Learning with Project-Based Learning
4. Enabling Connections
5. Providing the Time, Space & Tools
6. Prototyping and Iterating
7. Assessing with Quality Rubrics
6. 1. Striking the Chord
• Model Innovation
– What if it were in your mission?
• Provide Inspiration
– Assemblies and Guest Speakers
– TED talks
– Steve Jobs
13. How well are we
teaching the
significance and
power of networks?
How are we
helping students
develop and
leverage their
networks?
14. • Get online and open the net widely, (still safely).
• Leverage web 2.0 tools, including Skype.
• Use resources like Flat Classroom, iEarn, &
Quadblogging.
• Require online collaboration in some assignments.
15. 5. Providing Time, Space, & Tools
• Block Scheduling
• Maker Spaces
• Robotics, carpentry, 3D printers
17. 7. Assessing
Effectively
How do we
improve and
best use high
quality rubrics
to define
excellence and
give students
the feedback
they can use?
19. Jonathan E. Martin
www.21k12blog.net
Twitter: @JonathanEMartin
jonathanemartin@gmail.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Urgency to innovate
Per Gallup-HOPE Survey, this is % of students ingr 5-12 who aspire to invent something that improves the world
I am only going to offer a few specific suggestions, but I am going to ask you to consider for yourself applications, and then on my blog I am posting a set of slides of the implications.
Finding authentic problems to solve—close to home
How many people have done the marshmallow challenge? It so fascinating.