Professional Development- In Person
- MIT Edgerton Center- https://edgerton.mit.edu/k-12/makerspaces/k-12-maker-workshops
We emphasize hands-on practice and teach each technology through a simple maker project. Participants will leave with confidence, skills, resources, and ideas on how to use maker tools, as well as ideas on incorporating the technologies into the classroom.
High Tech High
- NuVu Studio- Innovation Camp for Educators https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/pages/innovation-camp-for-educators-2019
Monday, June 24 to Friday, June 28, 2019
- Nu Vu Studio-On Site Professional Development https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/terms/offerings
- Lemelson-MIT JV Inventeams Summer Workshop- http://lemelson.mit.edu/events/invention-education-summer-workshop-massachusetts July 29th- July 31st 2019
Nueva School- Design Thinking Institute
June 18th-June 21st, 2019 , Nueva Upper School, San Mateo, CA
https://www.nuevaschool.org/conferences-institutes/design-thinking
We are experts at creating hands-on, project-based, design thinking curricula. Come learn from experienced educators how to implement a similar program at your school. This institute will enable you and your teams to efficiently create projects that will foster your students' Design Thinking skills, preparing them for the future.
Henry Ford Learning Institute
Detroit, Michigan
https://hfli.org/workshops/
Tufts CEEO- Workshops for educators
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdT4IYu41B0Y30z5zdUffsBqjd8NpMWg7p9nx0QN6PsWKyz9A/viewform
- LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Robotics
- This workshop is appropriate for teachers with a range of experience with EV3 robotics. Participants will begin with the basics of LEGO programming, building, and data logging, including the use of motors, sensors, and gears. Classroom management will also be discussed—running multi-day open-ended projects, appealing to both girls and boys, grouping students effectively, organizing and storing materials. We will then delve into more complex concepts. Sample project: attach a gyro sensor and markers to a simple car and program it to draw spirograph designs.
- Novel Engineering
- Novel Engineering is an integrated approach to teaching engineering and literacy. As part of Novel Engineering, students develop projects based on texts they read in English Language Arts or other content classes, such as history. The characters become their clients and students pull information from the text to scope problems and set constraints as they engage in engineering design. Teachers play a pivotal role in supporting their students’ engagement by providing a supportive, responsive environment that will allow students to build on their ideas as they work on complex, ill-defined problems. Instead of prescribing a particular solution or process for students, we believe that teaching engineering involves listening to, understanding, and responding to student thinking. Design is about realizing the ideas of individuals and Novel Engineering gives students the space to explore their ideas through design projects as they work on classroom goals.
- Integrating Making and Design in the K-8 Classroom
- Whether you’re school has a devoted makerspace or not, making can be a valuable piece to any classroom. You don’t need to have a 3D printer or an abundance of resources, either. In this workshop, we will explore various tools and materials that can be used across a variety of STEM topics and aim to make making more accessible.
- Getting Started with Makerspaces for K-8 Educators
- This one day workshop is ideal for educators in the early stages of designing or implementing a makerspace in their schools. Makerspaces can provide wonderful opportunities for hands-on learning and have been designed and used in a variety of ways depending on a school’s needs and resources. While there are many commonalities, we realize that every educator comes with their own unique set of constraints and objectives for their makerspace, and this workshop provides a venue to explore ways in which to maximize the space, cultivate a community around the space, and resources for getting started. This workshop will involve a mix of group discussions and talks on pedagogies around project-based learning, hands-on activities, and at least one visit to a local makerspace. For more in-depth tool/software trainings, educators are recommended to take the “Integrating More Making into the K-8 Classroom”.
- UnProfessional Development/Project H Design https://unprofessionaldevelopment.org/
We share curricula for STEAM-oriented projects and design challenges, intellectual sparks for all grade levels, and an extensive collection of readings and videos about creativity as a practice. We lead workshops to help educators launch real, community-oriented classroom projects that are aligned with specific learning objectives, and host events in inspiring locations that ignite conversations about pedagogy in new contexts.
- University of California Curriculum Integration( UCCI) http://ucci.ucop.edu/ucci-institutes/index.html
- High Tech High PBL Leadership Academy https://hthgse.edu/professional-education/pbl-academy/
Create a personalized leadership project and develop it throughout the year with the continued support of an HTH teacher-mentor. Participants and mentors will collaborate in a series of iterative learning cycles to test and adapt “high-leverage” practices that support a variety of inclusive integrations across students, teachers, content, and skills.
Professional Development-Online
Project-Based Learning:
High Tech High
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/high-tech-high--project-based-learning-basic-elements.html
Professional Development by April Smith
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/april-smith--pd-for-project-based-learning.html
Professional Development by John Spencer
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/john-spencer--pbl-videos.html
Nu-Vu Studio
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/nu-vu-pbl.html
High Tech High
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/high-tech-high--project-based-learning-basic-elements.html
Professional Development by April Smith
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/april-smith--pd-for-project-based-learning.html
Professional Development by John Spencer
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/john-spencer--pbl-videos.html
Nu-Vu Studio
http://steamcurriculum.weebly.com/nu-vu-pbl.html
Artificial Intelligence in the School Environment
In Artificial Intelligence Explorations and Their Practical Use in Schools, you’ll learn to identify the various types of AI, hear about AI technologies on the horizon and build some of your own tools to make AI concrete and accessible for you and your students.
This is a 30-hour, self-paced course with ongoing instructor support.
In Artificial Intelligence Explorations and Their Practical Use in Schools, you’ll learn to identify the various types of AI, hear about AI technologies on the horizon and build some of your own tools to make AI concrete and accessible for you and your students.
This is a 30-hour, self-paced course with ongoing instructor support.
Google CS First
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/teachers
You can teach CS First even if you don't have a background in computer science. The resources below will help you feel more confident and equipped to get started with CS First in your classroom
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/teachers#training
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/teachers
You can teach CS First even if you don't have a background in computer science. The resources below will help you feel more confident and equipped to get started with CS First in your classroom
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/teachers#training
Learning Creative Learning (LCL) is our effort to connect and share ideas with people around the world with similar goals, visions, and values. It is an opportunity for like-minded educators and learners to meet one another and share ideas, strategies, and practical tips on how to support creative learning.
- Fab Lab Academy http://fabacademy.org/class-schedule-2018/
- Fab Academy Tutorials http://archive.fabacademy.org/archives/2016/doc/index_english.html
At the Fab Academy, you will learn how to envision, prototype and document your ideas through many hours of hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools. We take a variety of code formats and turn them into physical objects.
- Lemelson-MIT Webinars http://lemelson.mit.edu/events
EdX: Programming in Scratch https://www.edx.org/course/programming-scratch-harveymuddx-cs002x-1
This course is an introduction to computer science using the programming language Scratch, developed by MIT. Starting with the basics of using Scratch, the course will stretch your mind and challenge you. You will learn how to create amazing games, animated images and songs in just minutes with a simple “drag and drop” interface.
SketchUp
http://www.sketchup.com/
SketchUp is 3D modeling software that's easy to learn and incredibly fun to use.
SketchUp for Woodworkers https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKZBbhGUj_17_vZspQ-jG4gwxjxaOmLK5
SketchUp Basics( 4 videos) http://www.techedlearning.com/sketchup-101-sc.html
TinkerCAD( Browser-based) https://www.tinkercad.com/
AutoDesk Fusion 360( PC/Mac) http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/students-teachers-educators
- Fusion_training_attendee_print_guide.pdf
- Autodesk Tutorials
- AutoDesk Design Academy
- Fusion 360: Foundational Concepts
- Fusion 360: Introduction to CAD and CAM
Arduino Class with Becky Stern http://www.instructables.com/class/Arduino-Class/
- Makerspaces.com- Intro to Arduino https://www.makerspaces.com/arduino-uno-tutorial-beginners/
- You can learn Arduino in 15 minutes https://youtu.be/nL34zDTPkcs
- Arduino PowerPoint
- Microsoft STEM Lessons
Gravit Designer(Vector Drawing)
MicroBit Microcontrollers for Teachers
- Hardware https://youtu.be/RkWDYTx_mg4
- Programming https://youtu.be/XYOrlpON72I
- Challenges sites.google.com/view/utahcodingproject/microbits/challenges?authuser=0