Design, Make, Invent, and Learn

This site provides teacher librarians, tech directors, and educators resources to maximize the impact of making, design thinking, and creativity on learning in the school.

Public link to this site: https://sites.google.com/view/designmakelearn/home

Graphic about make to learn:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1WXOilyLTFanOiKxst4X6B38_2KbKmj0tjHr_L9BoID8/edit?usp=sharing

STEAM

• How can Making to Learn and STEAM encourage student learning, increase engagement, and foster higher-level critical thinking skills?

Entrepreneurship

• How developing an entrepreneurial mindset works for students entering a constantly changing world in which work/jobs and culture are "evolving."

Design Thinking

• A problem solving process for the PRODUCTION of goods and services. How Design Thinking works to help develop an entrepreneurial mindset.

Theory

• Why making, inventing, etc. is a part of a deep learning curriculum.

Assessment

• Best practice ideas for assessing making and the impact on learning.

Research studies

• Lesson Plan templates (Umbrella to create tutorial and others)
• Roles of classroom teachers, teacher librarians, tech coordinators, instructional coaches, experts, etc.
• Best of the Best articles, websites, YouTube videos, organizations, etc.
• Other ideas...

Community

Working in the community for the schools' required community service. Learning business skills at non-profits, homework centers, tutors, tech tutors, read to the younger kids. There is also a program that you could put in place where the kids can work with seniors.

Dog Assisted Learning

Having dogs in a learning environment provides a safe and enriching way to learn. Reading to a dog is now a national program. There are many opportunities to have dogs help in the learning environment.

Note: the following website contains examples of what could go in a much larger website that is under construction here:

This is a Google Site created for the first session last year. It turned out to be redundant with Schoology, but it includes the major areas of MAKING that we included in the course: designing for 3-D printing (TinkerCad), Breakout EDU, Scratch, Makey-Makey, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial Mindset (Great video of a talk presented by John Seely Brown), STEAM & MakerSpaces in Schools, Resources Page (which of course includes many of your books!),

https://sites.google.com/view/making-to-learn/home

Possible ideas from the Deep Learning workshop at High Tech High in San Diego, CA:

https://all4ed.org/deeper-learning-digest-highlights-from-deeper-learning-2019/