Education Forum

Learn how to provide opportunities for students to design and create fashion tech apparel that tells a story or expresses a message.

Storytelling and literacy activities can easily become maker projects with the use of simple supplies and an understanding of linkage mechanisms.

Learn successful techniques and tools for implementing engaging, creative STEAM projects in the educational setting.

Good visual design can communicate powerful messages, but it is often overlooked in teacher professional learning. As director of instructional design and personalized learning, Sadie thinks that it’s crucial to teach design basics to teachers, so that teachers can design engaging content for students.

A focus on work integrating technology and making through teaching. From processing P5.js in Math class, 3D printing in Spanish, 3D design in Latin, to LEGO Engineering in Science.

Only a few months after launching a Mobile Fab Lab program, the global pandemic threw a wrench into operations, but in true Maker fashion The Lab pivoted and quickly produced an interactive Virtual Makerspace Tour.

This session will highlight tools and templates for community mapping and engagement. Join us for a tactical conversation with the potential to unleash student agency, confidence, and empathy within your classroom.

Brian and his staff will talk about their work at BEAM Center to bring fabrication resources to a wide range of communities and public high schools in New York City.

Learn about the REACH Challenge, a program from ITEEA that involves middle school, high school, and college students in the design of adaptive and assistive products.

The connection between the school makerspaces and community members as well as local businesses can help prepare students for future success in college and career readiness.

Virtual worlds offer a “metaverse” of options that can be used as learning spaces. So how do we enhance the maker experience and emulate it online?

Fifty years ago, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon published a remarkable paper titled, “Twenty Things to Do with a Computer.” This paper predicted the maker movement, 1:1 computing, and challenged schools to embrace computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression.

In this session, Sandy will show how to use age-old techniques of storytelling, asking questions, crafting analogies, and even sharing humor to energize any learner.

By tasking their students with solving real-world problems in small groups, instructors at all levels can transform even the most reluctant students into ones who are excited to learn.

Paula will show you a series of techniques for making hands on, interactive projects with just paper, tape & scissors.

Kathy Ceceri, author of Fabric and Fiber Inventions, will demonstrate how to use ordinary items like t-shirts to help students think like scientists or engineers — and learn a super-simple way to upcycle an old shirt into a handy carry-all bag!

This session explores using zines as a medium of constructive instructional design, especially to facilitate creative mathematical tinkering.

Preston says this presentation is “my answer to a question I have after every education conference on hands-on learning, “all of these tools are great, but how do I do this in my history class?”

Join us for a reading of the children’s book, Amber the Maker, written by Ann-Louise Davidson and Elizabeth Lakoff, and illustrated by Alina Gutiérrez Mejía.

The Build a Better Book project works with school and library makerspaces to engage youth in the design and fabrication of inclusive media, including picture books, games and graphics.

Authors of the recently published Make: Geometry, Joan and Rich have created an open-source repository of 3D printable geometry models, as well as lesson plans for teachers of the visually impaired.

How can we align making to curricular standards in areas such as math? Even the newest mathematics curricula do not account for the diversity of materials that young makers choose to express their own mathematical conceptualizations.

Maker education can have a profound impact on mathematics, but we need to communicate and collaborate with mathematics educators and seek partnerships with informal educators.

Soundtrap for Education is on a mission to make music creation and storytelling simple and collaborative for everyone.

It is vitally important to allow teachers to experiment and relive the feeling of being learners alongside their students, lessen the distance between what it means to be a teacher and a learner, and create multi-developmental learning groups within administration, faculty and student body.

In this conversation with Dale Dougherty, Andrew will discuss his current charter – to help LEGO Education transform from a toy company to an organization focused on learning.

Join Kelsey and Matt of CodeJoy to explore interactive remote robotics. Experience for yourself the joy, fun, and sense of accomplishment of creative robotics WITHOUT TOUCHING A ROBOT.

NVIDIA’s Jetson Nano is ideal for learning and teaching hands-on robotics and AI. In this presentation, we’ll share how you and your students can use the Jetson Nano Developer Kit for STEM robotics projects.

Pete Januarius runs a technology training company called Nexgen Codecamp that operates out of the Northern Beaches in Sydney. He set out to build a more affordable robot for use in the classroom.

In this conversation, the talk about how the tools and processes of genetic engineering can be introduced to students in the classroom.

With a plethora of project models and program examples, Curt and Erik will describe Community Science Workshops, a network of 8 independent organizations throughout California and two other states.

In this workshop, Rick will go over how to start and run a maker program in a K-8 school environment.

Making provides a way to engage students, especially those who struggle to achieve in school.

Aáron Heard is the on-air talent for the “Learning in the Making” video series produced by MakerEd. She grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from USC with a degree in poetry before moving to Oakland to become a sixth-grade humanities teacher.

Educator and entrepreneur Nancy Otero talks about building a prototype “boot camp” for makers aged 17-24. She developed it and ran “Make: Learning Labs” over 3 months this year with 14 students online.

Workshop participants will walk away with helpful hands on strategies and tips to promote the development of spatial reasoning skills in their maker and STEAM programs.

Chuck hopes to show that Making can be a daily activity in classrooms even if a school has a dedicated makerspace.