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Reflect on your group's essential question before Thursday, December 17th
Pre-Work for Tuesday, September 8th
Pre-Work for Tuesday, September 8th
LIFE MAP: Create a life map of 5-10 moments that have impacted your trajectory inside of, outside of, or around making and leaning. Include a few moments of “making” that are vivid or stands out to you.
Your life map can be made with any material or even digitally. Add a photo of your life map to your assigned slide (linked to the left) or create your life map directly on your slide.
WHY I SERVE: Think about why you are a maker, educator, or fellow. What motivates you or keeps you going?
STAKEHOLDER MAPPING: Collaborate with your host-site supervisor and other Maker Fellows at your site (if applicable) to identify key players in your site's maker education ecosystem and to visualize their relationships to one another and to your work.
Open (or download) the Stakeholder Cards exercise (linked to the left)
Using the template provided or your own materials (i.e. physical, like post-its or strips of paper, or digital), list all the people involved in your work at your site. Undoubtedly, there are stakeholders missing from the pre-populated cards who play unique roles in your work. Be sure to add them.
Jot down notes related to what role they play in your site and in your own work on each card as well as questions you have about them.
By physically organizing and/or arranging the cards, represent or visualize the connections between stakeholders.
Save or record your map in some way (take pictures or translate to a digital format). You will revisit your maps on Wednesday.
EQUITY READING: We know that education can be used as a tool for liberation and equity. However, we must acknowledge that school systems have been designed and operated in ways that do not benefit and engage all of our learners. To become better educators, we commit to examining our own practices, so that we can better support all of our learners.
In order to have a common lens to start our conversation together, we are asking you to read these two articles.
Read Developing a Liberatory Consciousness by Barbara J. Love on why and how we can cultivate a “liberatory consciousness”. Only until we start to examine ourselves, can we be better prepared to see the strengths and agency in our learners and help them to do the same.
“All members of society play a role in keeping a “dis-equal” system in place, whether that system works to their benefit or to their disadvantage.” - Barbara Love
During the workshop we will focus on supporting learners to develop their Critical/Liberatory Consciousness
Read A Conversation About Instructional Equity with Zaretta Hammond to start thinking about why we should use our learners’ cultural funds of knowledge to build on their agency and capacity as learners.
“To make progress in educational equity, we need leaders, teachers, and other stakeholders to understand the different aspects of equity and how, when put together, they create more equitable outcomes for children.” - Zaretta Hammond
During the workshop we will also focus on supporting learners to develop their Cognitive Capacities.
LIGHT PLAY SCREEN: Create a screen for Tuesday morning's Light Play activity. For reference, a photo example is included below. Feel free to get creative! Supplies can be found in your kit of materials - parchment paper or wax paper are a necessary component. The structure of the screen is up to you; you want to have a flat, vertical surface of parchment paper on which to project.
MATERIALS & TECHNOLOGY: Please take a moment to gather, check, make, and test the following items:
Materials Kit: Have you received your materials kit yet? It was shipping on Monday, August 21st through USPS.
Personal Computer and stable internet: Access to a personal computer and stable internet, which you will use to join the virtual Institute via Zoom.
Zoom: In case you haven't used it before, please make sure your audio, video, and computer are set up to access Zoom. More information on downloading the app and joining a meeting is located here.
Online Portfolio: Throughout the workshop, you will use an online portfolio to reflect on workshop activities and to plan your activity or lesson. We will share an individual portfolio template (built using Google Sites) for you to use - be on the lookout for an email notification from Justin on the Maker Ed team giving you access to your portfolio in advance of the Institute.
Forum: The forum is operated via a Google Group listserv. We will add your email you to the Group and you should receive an email notification. Please set the notifications to your preference! See more details on the Forum page.
(OPTIONAL) Document Camera: In order to share work with partners during making activities, it can be helpful to set up a document camera. This can be a dedicated document camera or your cellphone. For our purposes, the document camera should be visible in zoom under "Select a Camera." Options for apps are:
iVCam works well on a PC with Android or iPhones
EpocCam works on both PCs and Macs, but can be buggy when you switch from your phone to the webcam and back.
Using an iPhone on zoom directly is an option when you go to share your screen (but this only allows one group member to share at a time).
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