This document provides tips for making makers and developing mastery. It discusses providing materials to spark creativity and problem solving. Mastery involves comprehensive knowledge through practice over many hours. The tips emphasize thinking generatively, using experience as a rich source of ideas, developing wonder, and supporting individual and team mastery through deconstructing processes to teach skills. The overall message is that providing opportunities to make things can help people develop as makers and master skills through hands-on learning.

1. HOWDY.
MAKING MAKERS WHO FEARLESSLY MAKE
#MAKEMAKERS & #SMITHANDBETA
crafted for: SXSW 2015

2. WE’RE HAPPY TO BE HERE.

4. ALLISON KENT-SMITHFounder & Managing Partner,
smith & beta
LORI KENT
Learning Experience Director/
Chief Joy & Perspective Officer
With thanks to: Sallyanne Oettinger, Meredith Olsen, Grace Borchers and the s&b Teacher Collective
Creatables (Gothenborg, SE) the Strawbees folks, and Sparkfun in Boulder for e-maker kits.
CATHERINE MCGOWIN
Operations Director,
smith & beta
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7. i-phone prototype!

10. Little bits workshop!

14. “I HEAR AND I FORGET. I SEE AND I
REMEMBER. I DO AND I UNDERSTAND.”
- CONFUCIUS

15. YOU WILL MAKE
MAKE
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16. YOU WILL MAKE
YOU WILL THINK
THINK
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MAKE
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17. YOU WILL MAKE
YOU WILL THINK
YOU WILL THINK ABOUT MAKING MAKERS*
A PROGRAM, A VISION, A CONFERENCE, A CURRICULAR THEME….
TIPS
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MAKING
MAKERS
THINK
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MAKE
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18. WHAT DO YOU MAKE?
MAKE
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20. TIP
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21. TIP
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23. TIP
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24. DEFINE TERMS
WRITE THE ONE WORD YOU MOST ASSOCIATE
WITH MAKING OR MAKING MAKERS
ON A POST-IT NOTE.
MAKE
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26. OBJECTIVES
WHAT TO EXPECT, AGAIN

27. your inner maker
MATERIALS
MEANING-MAKING
MASTERY

28. material logic

29. “THE MATERIALS TELL YOU WHAT TO DO, YOU
REACT TO THEM AND THINK ABOUT WHAT TO
DO WITH THEM, IN THE SAME WAY WE THINK
ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH THINGS IN OUR
EVERYDAY LIFE.”
- Eugene Tan (Interview with Jane Lee)

41. What is your inspiration?!

43. “What do you want to be
when you grow up?

45. BANG-YAO LUI

46. TARA DONOVAN

48. PETER ROOT

49. TARA DONOVAN

50. IF THIS IS MATERIALS, HOW DO YOU MAKE
A MAKER?

51. 1. MATERIALS TELL YOU WHAT TO DO.
2. FUNCTIONAL FIXEDNESS IS SEEING A
“THING” OR MATERIAL AS HAVING A
SPECIFIC USE…RETHINK.
3. ORDINARY MATERIALS CAN INSPIRE,
TRANSFORM…
3Ms

52. meaning [making]

53. WHAT YOU
KNOW IS WHAT
YOU MAKE.
PRECAP
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materials

54. your voice?

56. MAKE
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100INTERESTING THINGS (TO YOU)

57. “voice” recombines

58. Venn diagram to focus!

59. “ALL THAT WE CAN IMAGINE
WE ALREADY KNOW.”
- SIR STEPHEN SPENDER, 20c POET

60. Lucio’s pantry game!
LUCIO POZZI
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61. Lucio’s outcomes!
LUCIO POZZI
!

62. TIP
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63. 1. BE A GENERATIVE THINKER…ABLE TO SORT,
FILTER, BIFURCATE, COMBINE AND EXPAND.
2. YOUR EXPERIENCE GIVES YOU AN INCREDIBLY
RICH “WELL” FOR MAKING.
3. DEVELOP WONDER. THINK TOO MUCH.
RECAP
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meaning
3Ms

64. mastery

65. mas·ter·y
ˈmast(Ƨ)rē/
noun
noun: mastery
1. $
comprehensive knowledge or skill in a subject or
accomplishment."she played with some mastery"
synonyms:
proficiency, ability, capabilibility
THINK
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66. 7 YEARS
10,000 HOURS
THINK
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67. Zen Master Image!

68. Beck accepting award!

69. Chef!

70. TIP
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73. THINK
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74. TIP
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75. TIP
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76. TIP
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77. 1. MASTERY? WHAT DO YOU DO BEST?
2. HOW CAN YOU DECONSTRUCT PROCESS TO
TEACH MASTERY?
3. HOW DO YOU SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL AND
TEAM MASTERY?
3Ms

78. TIP
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80. Making
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https://vimeo.com/108792795!
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81. FOLLOW A FEW SIMPLE
DIRECTIONS.
Approx. work time : 20 minutes
MAKE
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82. MAKE
SOMETHING
Making
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83. MAKE…ASK QUESTIONS
CONTROLLED [STRAW-
CENTERED] CHAOS NOW.
MAKE
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84. Will grab three more pics!

85. BE A
MAKER MAKER
RECAP
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materials

86. TIP
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87. THANKS A MILLION
#MAKEMAKERS

88. sxsw.feedogo.com/fdbk.do?sid=IAP36301!