Run, Marble, Run! A Tinkering Experience
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Run, Marble, Run!
A Tinkering Experience
Image Credit: “M
arbles”, Nick H
arris via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Jim Tiffin Jr. - @JimTiffinJrMount Vernon Presbyterian SchoolSummit for Transformative Learning – MICDSJune 7 - 9, 2015
Plan for the ExperienceOverview– Personal Thoughts– Team Up Preflection– Some Tinkering– Pause– Some More Tinkering– Thoughtful Reflection
Sharing– Please tweet with the hashtags
#STLinSTL & #MakerEd
Experience ResourcesFind the goodies we’ll talk about…
…and some we won’t ……here at:
jamestiffinjr.com/presentations
(Look for the session “Run, Marble, Run” in the 2015 list!)
Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way
to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”
Sylvia Martinez & Gary StagerInvent to Learn
Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way
to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”
Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way
to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”
Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way
to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”
Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way
to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”
Why Make?
To Learn Content
To Learn to Learn
To Show Learnin
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Why Make?
To Learn Content
To Learn to Learn
To Show Learnin
g
Tinkering
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general
Why Make?
To Learn Content
To Learn to Learn
To Show Learnin
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Today’s workshop
Less Me, More You!A Visible Thinking Routine– Parts, Purposes, Complexities
Image Credit: “Kids playing with the Exploratorium’s marble wall”, Matt Mechtley via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Your Prompt
“Build a marble run that gets the marble into the cup as slow as
possible.”
(It’s really a marble walk, actually )
Less Me, More You!Preflection– Think to yourself…
Less Me, More You!Team Up– Find your partner from the SPARK
Workshop-wide D.I.T.Sharing on Post-It Notes–What is working?–What is not working?
Image Credit: “Office Cube with Post-It Notes- 20130122-9568.jpg”, Michael Arrighi via Flickr, CC BY 2.0
Your Prompt
Build a marble run that gets the marble into the cup as slow as
possible.
(It’s really a marble walk, actually )
Tinker Pause
Take a stroll to see Post-it Notes and other marble runs… err,
walks.
Back to Tinkering
Build a marble run that gets the marble into the cup as slow as
possible.
DebriefFrom a participant’s point of view…
Image Credits: “Like”, Thomas Angerman via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0“Wishing You All A Happy Mother’s Day”, Dawn via Flickr, CC BY 2.0
“Wonder Woman”, Julian Fong via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Questions
What do want to ask me?What do you want to ask the room?
Thank You
Thank you for sharing your time and ideas with me!