STEAM & MakerSpace Education - Berlin, Germany

 

3rd day - 8th December, 2021

                                                          in the classroom

MAKERSPACES IN EDUCATION

What is a Makerspace?

It is a collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to no tech tools.

Maker Movement

"The Maker Movement encourages a growth mindset, which tolerates risk and failure and maybe even encourages it." (Laura Fleming) 

So, to fail is completely ok.

"When you teach a child something, you take away forever his chance of discovering it himself." (Jean Piaget)

Thus, a similar theory to the STEAM plan in which students discover by themselves.

In the Maker Movement the teacher is a fundamental figure to coach students, to guide them; the teacher is a reference for them. Besides mentoring, openness, another feature of the Maker Movement, is not about the final product but the learning process. It is learning by doing! 

Making should also be playful as play builds social-emotional competence in many domains: 

- language skills, 

- social skills, 

- empathy, 

- imagination (to apply the knowledge they acquire in the process), 

- self-control, 

- persistence (assess the engagement of the students not to give up trying to find the solution), and

- higher-order thinking (the use of critical thinking).

Who is a Maker?

Everyone is a Maker. It is important to foster this mindset.

The Maker Manifesto

How do we learn?

To get warm during our break... some hot chocolate!

A MAKERSPACE ACTIVITY

Our group planned a lesson connecting two subjects: English and Maths. To get to know the Pythagorean theorem through research in the English language as they can find a wider range of sources and also get in touch with specific vocabulary that they may need in their future university course. At the end of the research and the acquired knowledge in both subjects, students should demonstrate the theorem physically. They could prove their knowledge on the theorem in a collaborative way by using some material brought to the classroom by the teachers. At the end, students should present their work orally in English.

TASK-BASED LEARNING

Task-based language teaching is a student-centered approach to second language instruction, wherein activities focus on having students use authentic target language in order to complete meaningful tasks and situations they might encounter in the real world.

THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM

The traditional classroom model is reversed by inverting the pyramid and the Flipped classroom is created.

7 MODELS OF FLIPPED CLASSROOM

 Time for a break!

The end of the day... the real berliners!