Mindset of the Maker Educator
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The document discusses the mindset of a maker educator and emphasizes the importance of reflection in both educators and learners. It suggests that educators should model learning, provide resources, and create a supportive environment for learners to document and share their experiences in various ways. The document also highlights the roles educators can take to foster a culture of making and collaboration in the classroom.
Mindset of the Maker Educator
- 1. The Mindset of the Maker Educator
- 4. Agenda • Some Background • Educator and learners as reflective practitioners • Documenting learning • Questions for Reflection • Roles of the Educator as a Maker Educator • Resources
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- 9. Making takes on many forms. As you watch the following video, think about the types of making you have done in your own life.
- 12. The Educator as a Reflective Practitioner: To assist learners in becoming reflective, one has to start with herself.
- 13. Think about a time when you made something to answer the following questions.
- 14. Did I play and have fun?
- 15. Was I resourceful in terms of finding information, resources, and materials?
- 16. Did I accept failure as part of the process and use it to inform my learning?
- 17. Did I approach learning as an open-ended process; open to new & all possibilities?
- 18. Did I try to either make something better or create something new rather than just copy something that already exists?
- 19. Did I ask other people for feedback and information; to collaborate?
- 20. Did I share my work and findings with others?
- 21. Did I learn something new?
- 23. Honoring multiple means of reflection The maker educator has the mindset that documenting learning is important.
- 25. Honoring multiple means of reflection As you watch the following video, think about the ways you would have these learners document their learning if they were your students.
- 27. Talk About It Talk About It
- 28. Write about it. Write About it.
- 30. Take a photo or create a video about it Take a photo or create a video about it
- 31. Tweet (or snapchat or Facebook) about it. Tweet (or snapchat or Facebook) about it.
- 33. Being a maker educator often requires developing a new set of roles, attitudes, roles, and ways of being in the classroom environment.
- 34. As you watch the following video, think about the roles the educator needs to take to create the conditions for being a maker educator.
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- 37. Are you a lead learner? Do you model the processes of learning with your learners?
- 38. Do you create a safe environment for your learners – where they feel safe enough to take risks?
- 39. Do you give learners the time and resources to build personal relationships and PLNs – both face-to-face and online?
- 40. Do you suggest and provide resources to help learners become independent with their projects?
- 41. Do you help learners with assessing, developing, creating, revisiting, revising?
- 42. Do you help learners learn about new technologies?
- 43. Do you set up the conditions for learners to get feedback about their projects?
- 44. Do you help to normalize ambiguous problem finding and solving; of failure as iterative?
- 45. Are you a tour guide of learning possibilities? Do you show learners some possibilities and then get out of their way?
- 46. Which of these roles do you want to focus on in your own teaching?
- 48. Resources