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Sicamous
Published on Apr 2, 2014
The Sicamous School District, in partnership with UBC’s Innovative Learning Centre (ILC), held the first Maker Day with students in B.C. on March 13, 2014. Over 80 students from five different schools came together to engage in design thinking and hands on trades activities. The ITA and UBC’s ILC are supporting Maker Days through-out BC to ‘take making into schools’. For more information on Maker Days, visit http://www.itabc.ca/events/maker-day.
Maker Day Video SD#23
Published on Apr 3, 2014
The Faculty of Education’s Innovative Learning Centre and the Industry Training Authority collaborate with Okanagan College and Women in Trades to host a Maker Day experience.
Maker Day Video #2
https://www.enewsletters.gov.bc.ca/Education/Focus_on_Skills_April2014_newsletter/edition
“Maker Days” in the Okanagan
The University of British Columbia, in partnership with The Industry Training Authority, piloted 5 “Maker Days” as a way of introducing trades and technology and experiential learning opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12. At Maker Days, students and educators are introduced to “making” through small group design challenges that encourage invention, prototyping, and experimenting. Educators are asked to take “making” back to their schools and share it with their colleagues and students.
Here’s what happened at two of these recent Maker Days:
School District 23 (Central Okanagan) held a Maker Day on March 11. 72 educators, representing 40 of the 42 elementary, middle, and secondary schools in the district, attended. 37 schools have since signed up to run their own Maker Day type event with their students.
On March 13, 2014, the ITA and UBC held the first Maker Day with students in Sicamous. Over 80 youth took part in design thinking and a variety of hands-on trades activities. Check out the YouTube video of this event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfSG7yPJ0Y&feature=youtu.be.
Maker Day research poster
Maker Day 2013 Video and News
Want to know more about …
- Watch a three-minute video on Maker Day 2013
- View ITA Maker Day 2013 Flickr account
- Read the Wall Street Journal Press Release on Maker Day 2013
- Visit the Youth in Trades Maker Day 2013 webpage
Questions or Comments: Contact Susan Crichton, director, Innovative Learning Centre
Maker Day Tool Kit – Revised July 2014
Epublication:
To download a pdf of Maker DayToolKit (as of Mar.27/2014)
Thanks to excellent collaboration and support from Erin Johnson and her team at Industry Training Authority (ITA – http://www.itabc.ca/ ) and Nancy Darling and her team from the Women in Trades program at Okanagan College, the ILC hosted Maker Day 2013.
Educators, Ministry of Education folks, ITA folks all came together to design, tinker and create. The following resources were development to help others create their own Maker Day events. Use and enjoy!!!
If you downloaded this resource earlier – this is a new version as of July 7, 2014
Maker Day Tool Kit by Dr. Susan Crichton and Deb Carter, PhD (C) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
From the ePub
What is a Maker Day? (pp. 4-5)
4. Globe and Mail: “Where did all our skilled workers go?” (pp. 18-19)
How to plan and host a Maker Day
7. Group Facilitators’ Roles and Responsibilities (pp. 24-29)
What is needed to host a Maker Day?
Resources to Support Your Maker Day
We did the low-tech social networking activity. It worked well. We invited participants to make their initial contributions during the registration process and before the event actually started. We encouraged them to revisit the activity during the day to make additional connections. Make sure to use paper that is more SQUARE than linear to encourage a range of connections. unfortunately, we used a long piece of paper and the connections were harder to make.
Appendix
20. Required Materials (pp. 46-49)
Word documents are provided in #15 and #16 above.
Additional Resources
These resources (not in ePub or printed Maker Day Toolkit) have been gathered during multiple formal and informal discussions of Maker Day Toolkit
Note: To download free resource (bottom left hand corner), you are asked to join HCD Connect (free)
From the website: This toolkit contains the process and methods of design along with the Designer’s Workbook, adapted specifically for the context of K-12 education.
Links on this page includes Gift Giving Project, the Wallet Project pdf and Design Process Mini Guide
Suggested by teachers in EDST 498O class during Summer Institute in Education 2014
Buck Institute for Education (BIE) Problem Based Learning (PBL)
All about PBL including a Project Search curated by BiE. From the website: At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), our highest priority is to help teachers prepare students for successful lives … As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.
From the website: Catalyst for Science provides an online collection of science-based resources primarily for BC teachers, and shares these resources with non-formal educators, parents and students … Example: Easy Squeasy Circuits