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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
September 24, 2018 · 3:18 pm
Here are some photos from @MakerFaire New York at @nysci this past weekend. #WMFNY18 #MakerFaireNYC #NYC #MakerEd #STEAM #ArtEdTech #ArtsEd
Tracy Rudzitis, Sarah Rolle, and Rurik Nackerud, and me
It was great fun to visit the 9th Annual World Maker Faire New York this weekend. As usual, my favorite area was the Young Makers Zone. Here are some things from this year’s Make Faire NYC that I noticed:
1. Danny Scheible and Eben Burgoon’s Tapigami Tape City
2. Theo Boris’s Welcome to Planet Hugalot! Hug, please! (where I found Lesa Wang)
3. Godwyn Morris’s Dazzlinks Cardboard Contraptions
4. Benjamin Lehrer and Jonathan Roach’s Marvin: A Giant Connect 4 Robot
5. Evan Weinstein’s Cocoa Press Chocolate 3D Printer
6. Christian Ristow’s The Hand of Man
7. Todd Blatt, Marty McGuire, Jen Schachter’s We the Builders
8. Pete Gosselin’s 1 UP Keyboards programmable keyboard kits
9. Popular Science’s Tabletop Catapult
10. Balam Soto’s Sonic Moonbeam (www.balam.io)
11. Orimagi robots inspired by origami
12. Gualala Gadget’s Electric Marble Machines
13. Martin Horstman’s Doodlematic iPad app (where I saw Al Doyle)
14. Steven Hanania’s The Wizard of Fun puppets
15. Tetsuji Katsuda’s Robot Band++
16. William Muehlenhard’s Zoetrope
17. Lucy Johnson and Robert Fitzsimons’s Planetarium Umbrella
18. Sofía Suazo’s Emoji-Me loaded to @emoji___me on Instagram
19. I LUG NY’s LEGO Infinity Machine by Adult Fans of LEGO
20. The awesome Needle Arts and Crafts areas in Zone 1
21. Sharon Raymond’s Simple Shoemaking
22. Beautiful examples of circuit design and sewable circuits from Princeton’s CST, 3D-Kompetenzzentrum Germany, and Lovie Monsters
23. And some more things to look into which I forgot to document with photos or videos:
#ARFolds Augmented Folding Experiments
Amy Bruecken Designs https://amybruecken.com/
Vintage Computer Federation www.vcfed.org
Tagged as Balam Soto, Benjamin Lehrer, Christian Ristow, Cocoa Press, Cocoa Press Chocolate 3D Printer, Danny Scheible, dazzling discoveries, dazzlinks, Doodlematic, Eben Burgoon, Emoji-Me, Evan Weinstein, Godwyn Morris, Gualala Gadget, Hall of Science, I LUG NY, Jen Schachter, Jonathan Roach, Lesa Wang, Lucy Johnson, Maker Faire, makerfaire, Martin Horstman, Marty McGuire, Moonbeam, New York Hall of Science, Orimagi, Pete Gosselin, Planet Hugalot, Planetarium Umbrella, Robert Fitzsimons, Sharon Raymond, Sofía Suazo, Steven Hanania, Tapigami, Tetsuji Katsuda, The Hand of Man, The Wizard of Fun, Theo Boris, Todd Blatt, UP Keyboards, We the Builders, William Muehlenhard, zoetrope
October 27, 2015 · 8:59 pm
Pics and notes from #TeacherTuesdays at @littleBits store tonight. #STEAM #MakerEd
The littleBits pop-up retail shop in Soho is prototyping hosting Teacher Tuesdays this month. I was super honored and excited to be the special guest at tonight’s event organized by Michael Muhanna.
I introduced the Parts, Purposes and Complexities exercise (via Agency By Design out of Harvard Graduate School of Education) that I learned about in June while at Design Do Discover. As per their Twitter  bio, @AgencybyDesign is “A multiyear research initiative at Project Zero investigating the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning experiences.”
This activity is perfect for an introductory exploration of littleBits, as it encourages individual or small group exploration of the various parts (in this case, the bits), their separate purposes, and how they fit together magnetically to form more complex circuits.
It was awesome to see familiar faces in the audience including three awesome ladies from @MarymountNY (@lesa_wang, @MaureenrReilly, and @snipskmw) who are launching a 1:1 litlltBits program staying in graders 3,4, and 5 this year. Check out their awesome tweets as they share their students’ progress and explorations!
Tagged as 1:1, Karen Blumberg, katie williams, Lesa Wang, littleBits, Marymount, maureen reilly, michael muhanna, mikey muhanna, The Marymount School
May 24, 2012 · 5:15 pm
5th graders at @The_School are “outsourcing” their Greek 3-D temple designs!
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There’s an awesome project happening in two of the 5th grade classrooms at The School at Columbia University right now. To supplement their study of Ancient Greece, Dena Rothstein and Heather Lortie, are having their students collaborate with students from The Marymount School across Central Park on the Upper East Side. (The School is located on the Upper West Side…) Both groups are designing 3D Greek temples using Tinkercad and sharing their online files with a group at the other school to tweak, customize, and ultimately build (“print”) in our 3D printers. The humor of us being able to say that we are literally outsourcing to the East is not lost on us.
Teachers supporting this collaboration at The School are Heather, Dena, Greg Benedis-Grab (@gbenedisgrab), and Don Buckley (@donbuckley) with a lot of support from Cristina Martinez (@finlaycm) and a little support from me. On the UES of the park, Jaymes Dec (@jaymesdec) and Lesa Wang oversee Marymount’s particpation in the project. Jaymes designed the new Fab Lab at Marymount, and he just spoke at TEDxNYED last month.
Today, the groups communicated “long distance” and “real time” using Google Video Chat. (Cristina Martinez turned on the Chat feature for students just for this project and just for a few days. Usually, this feature is disabled.) I moved about checking on all of the groups. At one point, I observed four kids (two in front of me and two on the screen) discuss their designs and even use a secondary laptop facing the camera to visibly demonstrate how to use Tinkercad to make a triangular hole to decorate the roof of a temple. I thought that was awesome. 🙂
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Tagged as 3D, 3D printer, 3D printing, 5th Grade, Bits From Bytes, collaboration, communication, Cristina Martinez, Dena Rothstein, Don Buckley, Fab Lab, Google, Google Chat, Greek Temples, Greg Benedis-Grab, Heather Lortie, Jaymes Dec, Lesa Wang, Makerbot, Marymount, outsourcing, TEDxNYED, The Marymount School, TinkerCad, video chat
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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