Author: Débora Garofalo

We need to make the school curriculum more flexible in favor of the Maker Culture

I have had the opportunity to work with the maker culture in many ways, at school as a teacher of 24 classes and now at the Education Department working on public training policies for the transformation of Education. Many teachers have questions about how to work with the do-it-yourself movement. This text is an invitation… Read more »

The importance of the maker culture in education

Due to all my experience as a public-school teacher in Brazil, I am sure about the importance of the maker culture in the teaching and learning process. I have always considered the maker culture as a great umbrella for working with innovation, as it allows the work with embroidery, sewing, programming, robotics, artificial intelligence, IoT… Read more »

Having high financial resources does not guarantee the teaching and learning process

I have been asking myself more and more about ways of conceiving learning. I have recently visited Recife, the capital of a northeastern state in Brazil    and their Municipal Department of Education and got to know up close what they have been doing in the field of teaching programming and robotics. In conversation with several… Read more »

Teaching Collaborative Programming – a Creativity Adventure Using Lynx

Currently, it is important that teachers and students understand that they can contribute to the effective use of technological innovations in different formats and on different occasions, as well as new ways of using them in activities and projects in the classroom. Making the teaching of programming possible through playful resources can be considered one… Read more »

Reflecting on the teachings of Gary Stager and my work of Robotics with Scrap

I have reflected a lot on what the PhD, educator, author and speaker Gary Stager told us in his webinar. Professor Stager, the founder of Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute for educators  has helped students of all ages in six continents not only to embrace learning by making, but also the power of computers as… Read more »

Reflecting on Parpet’s article “The gears of My childhood”

When reading the essay by Seymour Papert, “The gears of my childhood” to the online article as the preface to a book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas (Basic Books, New York, 1980), I couldn’t help reflecting on my own purpose and work with education. For me, the story of the gears is also about… Read more »