This presentation provides some background information on maker education, being a reflective practitioner, documenting learning, the roles of the maker educator, and resources.

1. The Mindset of the Maker
Educator

2. @JackieGerstein
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/

4. Agenda
• Some Background
• Educator and learners as reflective practitioners
• Documenting learning
• Questions for Reflection
• Roles of the Educator as a Maker Educator
• Resources

6. http://www.thinglink.com/scene/575147870160683008

7. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/530497733706907648

8. https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2014/04/13/educator-as-model-learner/

9. Making takes on many forms. As you watch the
following video, think about the types of making
you have done in your own life.

10. •https://youtu.be/gGw-7teWmS4

11. https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/a-natural-and-experiential-cycle-of-learning/

12. The Educator as a Reflective
Practitioner:
To assist learners in becoming
reflective, one has to start with
herself.

13. Think about a time when
you made something to
answer the following
questions.

14. Did I play and have fun?

15. Was I resourceful in terms of
finding information, resources,
and materials?

16. Did I accept failure as part of the
process and use it to inform my
learning?

17. Did I approach learning as an
open-ended process; open to
new & all possibilities?

18. Did I try to either make
something better or create
something new rather than just
copy something that already
exists?

19. Did I ask other people for
feedback and information; to
collaborate?

20. Did I share my work
and findings with
others?

21. Did I learn something new?

22. https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/reflecting-on-the-making-process/

23. Honoring multiple means of reflection
The maker educator has the mindset that documenting
learning is important.

25. Honoring multiple means of reflection
As you watch the following video, think about the
ways you would have these learners document
their learning if they were your students.

26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V65nbQ3uTmo

27. Talk About It
Talk About It

28. Write about it.
Write About it.

29. Sketch it
Sketch it.

30. Take a photo or create a video about it
Take a photo or create a video
about it

31. Tweet (or snapchat or Facebook) about it.
Tweet (or snapchat or
Facebook) about it.

33. Being a maker educator often
requires developing a new set of
roles, attitudes, roles, and ways of
being in the classroom environment.

34. As you watch the following video,
think about the roles the educator
needs to take to create the conditions
for being a maker educator.

35. http://www.techinsider.io/makerspaces-diy-schools-2016-5

36. http://www.thinglink.com/scene/529031635128025090

37. Are you a lead
learner? Do you
model the
processes of
learning with your
learners?

38. Do you create a safe environment for
your learners – where they feel safe
enough to take risks?

39. Do you give learners the time and
resources to build personal relationships
and PLNs – both face-to-face and online?

40. Do you suggest and provide
resources to help learners become
independent with their projects?

41. Do you help learners with assessing,
developing, creating, revisiting,
revising?

42. Do you help learners learn about new
technologies?

43. Do you set up the conditions for
learners to get feedback about their
projects?

44. Do you help to normalize ambiguous
problem finding and solving; of failure
as iterative?

45. Are you a tour guide of learning
possibilities? Do you show learners
some possibilities and then get out of
their way?

46. Which of these roles do you want to
focus on in your own teaching?

47. https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/promises-to-my-learners-as-a-maker-educator/

48. Resources

49. https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/the-maker-educator-workshop/

50. http://www.makereducation.com/

51. http://www.amazon.com/Educator-as-Maker-ebook/dp/B00LYLQT0Y/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405867667&sr=1-2

52. https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/tag/maker-education/