Meaningful Making

Sam talks to Nico Janik and Alphonse Habyarimana about creative capacity-building, fidget spinners, and designing professional development opportunities for maker-educators

This is the first of two webinars where we explore the three Cs that underline maker pedagogy, which are constructionism, constructivism and critical pedagogy. In this webinar, the FabLearn Director Paulo Blikstein sits down with a group of the FabLearn Fellows and the Principal Advisor Sylvia Martinez to delve deep into the 3Cs.

In this episode, we share webinar where we discussed a paper by the late and great Edith Ackerman called Constructing Knowledge and Transforming the World. This is the first of two webinars where we explore the three Cs that underline maker pedagogy, which are constructionism, constructivism and critical pedagogy.

Sam, Daniel, and Andrew invite Angie O'Malley, David Hann, and Sarah Emerson to take over the podcast and talk about designing hands-on projects with accessibility and integration in mind.

Josh Ajima (Virginia, USA) joins Daniel and Sam to talk about ways of scaling up maker education, diversity in digital fabrication, and ways to design a makerspace from scratch.

EPISODE 1: THE DESIGN MAKE TEACH EDITION

Hosts: Daniel Schermele, Josh Ajima, Sam Phillips

Josh Ajima is better known as DesignMakeTeach to his many thousands of followers on Twitter and Thingiverse, where he advocates for maker-based learning in the classroom and has become a globally recognized expert in 3D printing. Josh has served as a member of the MAKE Magazine digital fabrication review team, been a featured designer on Thingiverse, led Domnion High School’s winning proposal for the US Dept. of Education’s CTE Makeover Challenge, and is a 2016 FabLearn Fellow.

designmaketeach.com

https://twitter.com/designmaketeach

Resources from this episode:

• How Do We Scale Up MakerEd

http://fellows.fablearn.org/how-do-we-scale-up-makered/

• Beam Center NYC

https://www.instagram.com/beamcenter/

• Minifig Pussyhat Thingiverse Collection

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2069758

• Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center

http://www.tolerance.org/

Andrew Carle, Daniel Schermele, and Sam Phillips discuss Seymour Papert's seminal essay COMPUTER AS MATERIAL in this podcast pilot.