Digging out of the happy chaos at the end of a maker program is always a challenge! I’m finishing up the last payrolls, trying to put the lab back in order after 34 youth teachers produced socially conscious inventions and hundreds of children bounced through making small projects that introduced them to the creative possibilities… Read more »

Here at Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn, we have been developing a new physical programming activity called “Machines Gone Wild!” that helps our youth learn about mechanical engineering with mechanisms and physical programming with Arduinos. So many of our youth “think with their hands” while building and last year we found that none of… Read more »

At Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn, one of the activities youth teachers take out to Boston community organizations each year is Squishy Circuits.  This cool activity was originally developed by AnnMarie Thomas at University of St. Thomas School of Engineering in St. Paul, Minnesota (http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/). Like many maker educators, we wanted to get better… Read more »

This is a long piece with photos that can be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UMdcVPeHUJeWV4YVg0MlVQeGM/edit?usp=sh…

In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves;  they come to see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation.    – Paulo Freire   As soon as I reread the… Read more »