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Since 2012, Don Buckley has taught or co-taught Managing Educational Technology Resources at Teachers College Columbia University (Course number MSTU4029). For his first year teaching the course, I was a student in his class and helped him brainstorm possible topics and projects. I also came up with the useful-yet-unoriginal hashtag #MSTU4029 to gather tweets for class participants. For many of his class sessions, Don taps folks from his huge network of professionals, teachers, experts, and creatives to join as guest lecturers and offer real world examples his students, and he has been kind to include me almost every year as a panelist or presenter. Don also goes on site visits around the city rather than always having his class meet on Teachers College’s campus.
Since last night’s class took place in Dwight School’s Spark Lab on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Lesa Wang (who is Dwight’s Global Spark Programs Director and Head of Design — and designed the space!) and Matthew Moran (who teaches Computer Science in the Spark Lab) hosted and presented their work and sample projects. Don asked me to also share some of the projects and initiatives I launched at The Brearley School. I was equally delighted to accept his invitation and to see the Spark Lab — I love visiting schools and makerspaces! The Spark Lab is Lisa’s most recently designed makerspace, and (since she is an artist and innovator) the lofty areas are thoughtfully organized, outfitted, useful, purposeful, and colorful! See photos below…
Tagged as Columbia University, Don Buckley, donbuckley, Lesa Wang, lesa_wang, Makerspace, Matthew Moran, Spark Lab, STEAM, STEM, Teachers College, The Dwight School
March 11, 2019 · 3:52 pm
Photos and notes from Day 2 of #FabLearn #NYC hosted at @TeachersCollege this past weekend. #MakerEd #edtech #elemaker #ArtEdTech
ABSTRACT: In this hands-on workshop, participants will carefully dissect used mechanical toys and explore innovative ways learners of all ages can extend circuit and mechanism explorations using both analog materials and digital tools. This workshop will give participants ideas for how to use recycled materials in makerspaces and classrooms to support tinkering with science, art and creative coding. We’ll share practical tips on how to find and organize materials, share parts and tools lists and host a reflective discussion about how this type of workshop can contribute to a financially and environmentally sustainable making program.
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
Happening now at #FabLearn: @AmandaCox, digital editor of the @nytimes, delivering her keynote, “The Images are the Same” Examples of images that show scale:
Examples of patterns in data visualizations via @amandacox:
Via @amandacox, examples of the power of the annotation layer to add additional information and narration:
5 https://t.co/u91r9Kgywl#FabLearn #mathchat #CSforAll #ArtEdTech
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
Another example via @amandacox of an awesome interactive graphic from the digital wizards at @nytimes which gives context to Usain Bolt’s Olympic performance: “One Race, Every Medalist Ever” https://t.co/44FyqVYAlN #FabLearn #mathchat #CSforAll #edtech
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
How the House voted on the resolution condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry. https://t.co/mADNR3aFgN
— NYT Graphics (@nytgraphics) March 7, 2019
Check out the beautiful collections of data visualizations mentioned by @amandacox:
1 Via @flowingdata: https://t.co/a35sXufxuk
2 Via @nytimes: https://t.co/H6lt5iiGYP …
3 Via @visualisingdata: https://t.co/LgEopXPhpa #FabLearn #ArtEdTech #CSforAll #mathchat #scichat
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
Check out the @nytgraphics Twitter account to see interactive digital content from the @nytimes. “The how and the why questions are always the best questions. How can we explain things? How can we push understanding?” @amandacox of @nytimes at #FabLearn
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
After Amanda’s keynote, we heard from a panel discussing “Making around the world: Experiences and lessons learned“. Following this was a collection of various Project Demos and Educator Posters on view in the Ed Lab. Two standouts were:
1. Fernando Puertas, Eduardo Lobo and Edison Cabeza’s Animachines consisting of game cards to help kids learn about species (since species are going extinct at an alarming rate).
2. Roy Ombatti’s work with a for-profit start-up that launched a ‘Digital Design Fabrication Workshop’ which taught digital fabrication skills to unaccompanied refugee youth aged between 9 and 17 years old.
Cool sharing in #FabLearn poster sessions! Love seeing @ken_hawthorn’s cardboard assembly design shark in the mix. pic.twitter.com/cS4u9SnLnT
— Corinne Okada Takara (@CorinneTakara) March 10, 2019
Roy Ombatti sharing a project teaching refugee children how to build 3D printers to build agency and design capabilities & skills w/ kids who have not been to school due to war. #FabLearn pic.twitter.com/45VSrkWBjZ
— Sylvia LibowMartinez (@smartinez) March 10, 2019
Next up in the program were Educator Roundtables. I attended Roundtable 3: Making Across Curricula which included Connecting Curriculum to a Meaningful Learning presented by Paula Oliveira and Diego Thuler, Connecting the Disciplines Through Collaborative Problem Solving: Interdisciplinary Design
from Kate Tabor, Anthony Shaker and Adam Colestock, and Rebuilding an 18th Century Town: Math, 3D Printing, and Historical Empathy presented by Heather Pang.
Wonderful presentation by @heatherpang from @CastillejaNews of her History project: “Rebuilding an 18th Century Town: Math, 3D Printing, and Historical Empathy” #FabLearn #MakerEd #sschat #ArtEdTech #girlsschools #edchat pic.twitter.com/RHtQjAuRUx
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
After the roundtables, there was an Educator Panel moderated by Jaymes Dec back in the main theater. On stage, Erin Riley, John Lynch, Nalin Tutiyaphuengprasert, and Roger Horton shared some of their project ideas and experiences.
#FabLearn Educator Panel moderated by @jaymesdec includes @eeriley99, @Mittensbrother, @Tukta_Nalin, and Roger Horton. https://t.co/fq5ZjQsdbj #MakerEd #STEAM pic.twitter.com/FYC0cpaqde
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
Thank you, @FabLearn for inviting me to share the #ExplodeTheController project. Curious educators, please make your own controllers and get bouncing! All materials are inexpensive, and free build instructions are linked on my website: https://t.co/MhJhzqq2Gf pic.twitter.com/Lmxiy8h3Pw
— John Lynch (@Mittensbrother) March 11, 2019
After this, I had to get home to decompress and spend some time getting ready for the week ahead. Unfortunately, I missed the final session where presenters shared their Full Papers about Tools for capturing learning in making and Designing maker implementations. I will console myself by trying to recall all the innovative, thoughtful, and inspiring things I saw and heard and all the people I reconnecting with or met for the first time. Can’t wait for the next NYC event! Check out all the upcoming FabLearn conferences including FabLearn Thailand happening January 10-12, 2020…
Tagged as @nytimes, Amanda Cox, Brearley, Christa Flores, Columbia University, Erin Riley, FabLab, FabLearn, Jaymes Dec, joel gordon, makered, New York Times, NYT, paolo blikstein, ryan jenkins, Teachers College, technology, technology integration, The New York Times
March 11, 2019 · 11:04 am
Photos and notes from Day 1 of #FabLearn #NYC hosted at @TeachersCollege this past weekend. #MakerEd #edtech #elemaker #ArtEdTech
Children should be programming computers and not being programmed by them. — @PauloBlikstein #FabLearn #MakerEd
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
What a thrill to finally attend a FabLearn conference! While there have been other global events, the mostly annual USA gatherings have always been held at Stanford University in California during the fall — never an auspicious time for me since the beginning of the school year is pretty intense.
#FabLearn has officially begun! Here’s @PauloBlikstein and @McLargeH introducing @EricaNWalker! #MathChat #edchat #MakerEd pic.twitter.com/uP5bsjHOe4
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Paolo Blikstein, co-founder of FabLearn, migrated from Stanford to Teachers College, Columbia University this year, so the event was hosted in my backyard! Friday night, there was an informal gathering of attendees and presenters; It was great to reunite with friends and former colleagues and get introduced to folks who are makers, coders, community builders, and influencers from all over the world.
Day 1 of FabLearn
FabLearn 2019 began on Saturday with a full line-up. (Here is the program of events: https://nyc2019.fablearn.org/program/) The day began with an awesome keynote by the inimitable Sylvia Martinez, “Making the Future: The Future of Making” — her bio and a blurb about keynote can be found here: https://nyc2019.fablearn.org/speakers)
First #FabLearn keynote by the inimitable @smartinez! Sylvia began her career as an electrical engineer designing the first GPS before creating/producing video games and eventually becoming the spokesperson for #MakerEd via #InventToLearn and #ConstructngModernKnowledge! pic.twitter.com/CBLOxoPNt1
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Two awesome links to re-explore via @smartinez’s #FabLearn keynote:
1. “Collection of musing by @CynthiaSolomon on the history of the Logo programming language https://t.co/K4Cjv7dFiU
2. Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert’s 20 Things to do with a Computer https://t.co/ljKeSpMZjn pic.twitter.com/FExKBibBF0
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Per @smartinez, what’s currently the next thing? Biocomputers, biotechnology, cyber-biological revolution. #FabLearn #MakerEd #scichat #CSforAll pic.twitter.com/MGCKIMvC4w
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
I’ve heard @smartinez speak many times over the years, and I always learn new things, am deeply inspired, and laugh freely! I love this: “We can’t think it’s unscientific to use worlds like ‘passion’ when talking about teaching kids.” #FabLearn #MakerEd #STEAM pic.twitter.com/3eoaXCW8PV
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Glad to learn about #MakingSenseEU from @smartinez. It’s all about Citizen Science and “co-creating technology for change with concerned communities” https://t.co/yV7Ei7dFyE #FabLearn #MakerEd #STEMed #scichat #CS4All
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Did you know the number of kids using Scratch doubles every year? Same for the number of fablabs around the world. Thanks for the update, @smartinez #FabLearn
— FabLearn (@FabLearn) March 9, 2019
Next up on the program was a panel, “Making without destroying the planet: is it possible?” full of awesome women including Christa Flores and Corinne Okada Takara.
#FabLearn panel of awesome women for “Making without destroying the planet” with @sciteach212 @CorinneTakara @DaraMendeloff @Nicoscopic_labs & Bianca Ruiz ! #FabLearn #MakerEd #STEMed #STEAM pic.twitter.com/FLO2q7pOjf
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Inspiring rules from @sciteach212’s previous 5th grade “Spring Hard Project” for students to explore beyond all they’d learned earlier. Also, love this particular motto via Christa, “Make it ‘til you learn it” #FabLearn pic.twitter.com/4lvuN5FeRp
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Love hearing about @CorinneTakara’s work with biomaterials (fungus, kombucha, worms, mold…) Ask her about #mycelium! See more on her site here: https://t.co/WjhoXm9pc2 #FabLearn #MakerEd #STEAM #STEMed #scichat pic.twitter.com/t8IexGJxeW
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Recipes for bioplastic via @CorinneTakara: https://t.co/FnrvBGyPdj #FabLearn #MakerEd #scichat #STEMed #STEAM pic.twitter.com/gZ7V9gadGy
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Via @CorinneTakara: “We need to grow the materials we build with” and use microscopes to make learning, creating, and using materials a more thoughtful practice. #FabLearn #STEAM #STEMed #MakerEd
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Just learned about Materials For the Arts via Bianca Ruiz of #NYCmakerspace: https://t.co/HvvX5jXYcZ #FabLearn #MakerEd #ArtEdTech #ArtsEd #STEAM
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
After the panel, the Short Paper authors and Young Maker posters presenters took the stage to give a brief description of their presentations. I loved seeing Nancy Otero (FABulous human and co-founder of the Portfolio School) support her small students as they presented first in a really long line-up of first-time and seasoned showcasers.
Excited for the upcoming poster session highlighting #FabLearn #YoungMakers! First up, @portfolioK12 students showing an awesome physical computing project they’ll display. #elemaker #edchat #MakerEd #STEAM pic.twitter.com/M3f0olIArN
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Following the poster session, there was a Young Maker Panel moderated by Sean Justice. I was totally inspired by Corinne’s daughter and friends who formed The Living Leather Project! After their presentation (and Corinne’s awesome work), I too want to make/explore kombucha leather and grow/use mycelium with the girls here at The Brearley School!
Slides from the amazing presentation by the “Living Leather Project” girls who are growing kombucha leather and incorporating it into their design projects. https://t.co/T0CYWWNyGC #FabLearn #MakerEd #STEAM #STEMed #scichat pic.twitter.com/R9Ww9rgoAQ
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
There were two more panels of , Full Paper presenters, Full Papers A: Building content knowledge through making and Full Papers B: Teaching and mentorship in maker contexts. Following these presentations was the first workshop opportunity. I wish I could have attended all the Saturday workshops! As I could only pick one, I chose, Making with Machine Learning led by Devin Dillon and Rebecca Anderson of Curiosity Machine. Here’s a blurb from the program about the workshop:
ABSTRACT: Learn about making with AI in this interactive session. This session is geared to educators and leaders working with students from 3rd-8th grades or working with family groups. In the workshop, you will uncover some basic machine learning processes as you build an AI model to explore how machine learning systems use data to make decisions, and will consider how you would modify or apply your experiences with your students or groups. We’ll be using Machine Learning for Kids and Scratch to create a bot that reacts to new situations you introduce.
In my first #FabLearn workshop, “Making with Machine Learning” with Devin Dillon & Rebecca Anderson of @IridescentLA. The four parts needed to set up a Machine Learning model: Choose your labels, build your dataset, train your model, test your model. #MakerEd #CSforAll pic.twitter.com/97DGWXIac5
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
We’re using the @MLforKids web-based tool which is designed for use in the classroom by schools and volunteer-run coding groups for children. It is being built by Dale Lane using APIs from IBM Watson Developer Cloud. https://t.co/h74tQSxLM4 #FabLearn #edchat #edtech
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Presentation slides from the “Making with Machine Learning” workshop at #FabLearn: https://t.co/eXykeVGiZP #MakerEd #edtech #CSforAll @MLforKids
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Glad that @Stefania_druga is in the room to share #Cognimates which she co-developed while at @MIT @MediaLab. “Cognimates is a platform for AI education where you can build games, program robots, train your own AI models.” https://t.co/7hohsuG0z3 #FabLearn #elemaker #CSforAll pic.twitter.com/CYelrrvMxF
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Yet another occasion to discuss bias and the need for diversity in the room when creating data sets, testing models, and reinforcing ethical AI: “Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women” https://t.co/54sN5o1nd5 #FabLearn #edtech #shepersisted
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
Following the workshop was an Artificial Intelligence (AI) meetup hosted by Nancy Otero and Stefania Druga.
Happening now at #FabLearn: AI Education meetup hosted by @LeSheepo @Stefania_druga and the “Hack Smart Toys” students from @ITP_NYU. #edtech #CSforAll #MakerEd #STEMed #STEAM pic.twitter.com/zk3wIn10AR
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 9, 2019
“There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.” Via @LeSheepo https://t.co/TmbTWxO6eg… #FabLearn #edtech #ethicalCS #CSforAll
— Karen Blumberg (@KarenBlumberg) March 10, 2019
💻🛡️ DEEP DIVE: Data privacy — The world has awoken to the deal we’ve made for our personal data, but it may be too late to regain control over what has already been bought, sold and leaked all over the web for the past three decades. https://t.co/Q76tyAwgX6 pic.twitter.com/3SAV1xELDj
— Axios (@axios) March 9, 2019
Tagged as Christa Flores, Columbia University, Corinne Okada Takara, Corinne Takara, FabLab, FabLearn, makered, paolo blikstein, Sylvia Martinez, Teachers College, technology, technology integration
May 13, 2013 · 5:55 pm
Final presentation for AHA4096 Photography for Educators
Renaissance Photoshop Project from KarenBlumberg
I try to take a course every semester at Teachers College. This is because it’s one of the best perks of being an employee of Columbia University, I like continually developing myself as a professional, and it’s fun to learn new things. This semester, I’m taking Photography for Educators with Sean Justice.
Besides taking, organizing, editing,and printing photos, we set for ourselves a few semester-long goals. I had five:
1. To fine-tune an integrated project joining conversations about Renaissance art, Art History, and media literacy. This project incorporated discussions about the history of image manipulation starting with how painted portraits were idealized versions of the subject and also how photographs were manipulated early on even before Photoshop. We also talk about ownership of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, which is not under copyright, and variations of the Mona Lisa by other artists which are under copyright (and variations about copyright based on country of origin). We discuss Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster in depth to encourage students to think about ownership, fair use, copyright, licensing, and attribution. And throughout it all, we teach 6th graders how to use basic tools in Photoshop (the eraser, selection, opacity, paint, eyedropper, magic wand, etc.) to alter a Renaissance painting.
2. To share my passion (soap box) for being ethical online. Hence, I shared a slide show about how to search and cite Creative Commons-licensed media (License to Cull). Also to encourage people to look at the Terms and Conditions of websites and apps, and to consider where they put their work (is it public or less public, do you own it still or are you offering your work up freely to websites and not paying attention to how your work is being used).
3. To share my Flickr stream and think about ways to use Flickr groups to build community. I set up a group AHA4096 and had hoped to have people connect with each other and each other’s photos in a shared space.
4. To impress upon teachers the importance of gathering a portfolio of their work via a blog or website. Thus, I’m housing my slideshow at Slideshare.net, and embedding it here at the top of this post. I treat this site as a museum of my work, rather than a warehouse where I house all my stuff (like my Google Drive).
5. To learn some awesome new tips and tricks for using Photoshop. I learned how to crop, set guidelines, and format my stuff for printing. I’m a big fan of straight-out-of-camera photography. Up until now, I rarely edited or printed my photos. This class really opened up my eyes to other possibilities besides shooting and sharing on Flickr.
Tagged as image manipulation, Photoshop, renaissance, Sean Justice, Teachers College
I couldn’t find a satisfactory wall mount for a mini glue gun, so I made one with @Tinkercad and an @Ultimaker. You can find it on the @thingiverse… @BrearleyNYC #MakerEd #STEAM
Pics from my visit to @DwightSchool’s #SparkLab designed by @lesa_wang! #makerspace #MakerEd #STEAM
Gathering my notes and tweets from yesterday’s mycelium workshop at @GenspaceNYC (organized by @STEMteachersNYC)… #STEMintheCITY #scichat #STEMed
Finally finished this chandelier made from the rolled up flyers that flooded my mailbox in June before the mayoral primary. #MakerEd #STEAM #ArtEdTech
Presenting “Experiences As A Maker Educator (Before, During, And After COVID)” at @Make Education Forum, 12pm EDT. I’ll share a variety of projects from @BrearleyNYC. #MakerEd #STEAM
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