More food for thought and another build challenge using cheap materials

1. Improvement
is no longer
the challenge

2. We should be asking
not how to do school
better, but different.

3. What do we
mean by
learning?

5. Creative
Confidence
Creative
Confidence is a
way of
“experiencing
the world that
generates new
approaches and
solutions.”

6. Your job isn't to CATCH UP
to the status quo;
the job is to CREATE and
BE the
status quo.
Seth Godin

7. Do not wait for instructions

8. "Imagine that the
world had no
middlemen, no
publishers, no bosses,
no HR folks, no one
telling you what you
couldn’t do. If you
lived in that world,
what would you do?
Go. Do That."
"Imagine that the world had no
middlemen, no publishers, no
bosses, no HR folks, no one telling
you what you couldn’t do. If you
lived in that world, what would you
do? Go. Do That."

9. be honest!

10. How many of you
refused to put a
credit card into a
machine 15 years
ago?

12. Yet…….
How many of you
have sent an
emoji?

13. Why is this
important?

16. Problem with
Schools
• Developing these mindsets are
not in the “curriculum”
• How much time do we challenge
students to initiate?
• Schools are programmed
• jazz band song selections
• athletic plays
• school projects

29. Coffeechug Cafe
I am a maker

30. Makerspace
s are more
than just
STEM and
engineering

31. If MAKERSPACES are so
powerful, then why are
they only in isolation?

34. What is your WOW?

35. What is your WOW?

36. –Johnny Appleseed
Paint Your Masterpiece
VISION

39. You need to have
the GUTS and
HEART and the
PASSION to
MAKE!

40. Ingredients
• an idea
• people to work with you
• a place to work
• materials
• money

41. What would our world
look like if more people
started projects, made a
ruckus, and took risks?
-Seth Godin

42. START
NOW

43. Are you ready
for make
challenge #2

45. Ready, Set, Design is a quick group
activity. It uses simple, inexpensive
materials and is an effective tool for
problem solving, creative thinking and
team building.

46. Objective: Participants are
asked to solve an open-ended
problem with time and material
constraints.

47. “I need to keep a newborn baby
warm in a place with no
electricity.”

49. share

50. Let’s light a fire...
shall we?

51. Unlimited Potential
http://www.pitsco.com/Classroom_Solutions/?tree=11&art=1032
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53. Where Do Good
Ideas Come
From?

54. 3 Easy Steps
1. Don’t think about it.
2. Just start.
3. Keep starting.

55. Don’t bother just to
be better than your
contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.
William Faulkner

56. The biggest
obstacle to
overcome was
myself.
Gretchen Rubin

58. Change your
PERCEPTION?

60. Why will I be successful in this class even if
I've never been successful before?

61. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44551921@N04/62407075
If students had a choice to go to your
classroom, would you have an empty room?

63. Make it HAPPEN
NOW!

64. “Education is
what someone
tells you to do.
Learning is
what you do
for yourself.”
-Skillshare Manifesto

65. Do not ask
“What will I innovate today?”

66. Ask
“What problem in the world needs a solution?”

68. no one says “go”
All ideas are wasted if

70. When you do THIS,
what happens?
When you do
THAT, what
happens?

71. Kevin Ashton
“The encouraging part is that everyone can
create. The challenging part is that there is no
magic moment of creation. Creators spend
almost all their time creating, persevering
despite doubt, failure, ridicule, and rejection
until they succeed in making something new
and useful. There are no tricks, shortcuts, or get
creative quick schemes. The process is
ordinary, even if the outcome is not.
Creating is not magic but work.

72. Most of our world is made of
innovations inherited from
people long forgotten—not
people who were rare but
people who were common.
What will you make today?

73. MAKE something DIFFERENT

74. MAKE something INNOVATIVE

75. MAKE something AWESOMESAUCE

76. Questions
and Pulse
Check