Gary Stager dives deep into Maker Education with the FabLearn fellows in the third and last installment of a three part series.

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Episode 9: Webinar with Gary Stager Part 3

Previously recorded the Fablearn Fellows discuss the history of "mindsets" and how the "Maker Mindset" is fundamental to the work done in Fablabs and makerspaces.

Episode 15: Fablearn Webinar on "Maker Mindset" part 2

Episode 14: Fablearn Webinar on "Maker Mindset" part 1

More about Stefania Stefania Druga is the creator of Cognimates, platform for AI education for families and a Ph.D candidate at the University of Washington. Her research on AI education started during her master in Personal Robots Group at MIT Media Lab. Currently, she is also a Weizenbaum research fellow in the Critical AI Lab and an assistant professor at NYU ITP and RISD, teaching graduate students how to hack smart toys for AI education. She co-founded Hackidemia, a global community for maker education present in 40 countries, Afrimakers, initiative for learning by solving global challenges in 10 African countries and MakerCamp , global camps for learning how to build and run maker spaces. During her research in the past two years, she has observed in longitudinal studies how 450 children from 7 countries are growing up with AI and how they can acquire AI literacy concepts through creative learning activities with the open source AI coding platform she has created.

Episode 13: What is AI – Educator Edition with Stefania Druga

We are pleased to share a recent webinar led by Daniel Schermele with several FabLearn Fellows in a conversation about assessment strategies for maker courses. The conversation included:Intent of assessment / why do we teach specific contentTypes of assessmentsBackwards planning vs. self-determined educationWhy do we assess? Accountability or just part of an antiquated educational system?What should we be assessing? Standards vs. skills. Knowledge vs. InformationHow do we assess?Using a product as assessment (when the process is really what’s important)TestingIndividual vs. team

Episode 12: Assessment Strategies for Maker Courses

Tony shared the goals of the program and current opportunities for young people in their Invention contests and programs. Justin Brown, one of the FabLearn Fellows, discussed how the InventTeams program works in his high school in Hawaii. It was an interesting conversation, as we discussed the similarities between “maker” and invention programs in schools, how to gain support from students, parents, teachers, and administration, fundraising, and encouraging students to believe that they can invent things.

Episode 11: Tony Perry of the Lehmlson-MIT Invention Education program

Heather Pang, history teacher at the Castilleja School (Ca) discusses the ah-ha moments of remote learning, including how to teach concepts when homes have varied access to art supplies.

Episode 10: Heather Pang on History at Home

Gary Stager dives deep into Maker Education with the FabLearn fellows in the second installment of a three part series.

Episode 8: Webinar with Gary Stager Part 2

Gary Stager dives deep into Maker Education with the FabLearn fellows in the first installment of a three part series.

Episode 7: Webinar with Gary Stager Part 1

Sam is joined by Tracy Rudzitis (2014 FabLearn Fellow) and chats with Betty Elias (UMass Dartmouth), Tyla Smart (University of New Hampshire), and Naeem Wilson (UMass Dartmouth) from Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn about their experience as college mentors , designing making experiences for youth of color in Boston.

Episode 6: Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn

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

Episode 5: From East Palo Alto to Kigali, Rwanda

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.

Episode 4: The 3Cs of Maker Education (Part 2)

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.

Episode 3: The Three Cs of Maker Education

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.

Episode 2 - Making in Younger Classrooms

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 - Design Make Teach

Meaningful Making is a podcast that unpacks the world of maker education - brought to you by the FabLearn Fellows.