our robotics workshop for children SENFABLAB is a space for creativity, learning, prototyping and sharing. Located in Grand–Yoff, a popular neighborhood It aims to spread digital technologi,s and to promote learning… Read more »
Category: Cohort 3 Fellows
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 »
CONTEMPLATING EDUCATION REFORM IN TWO PARTS: Part 2
Part 2: Education Reform In my previous post, I explored the purpose of education as a crucial element in building a foundation for education reform. I believe the purpose of education should be driven by students – who they are, what they want, where do they want to be – and these pieces of information… Read more »
Tea Sippers & TurtleStitch
For 24 Sundays in a row, I have set an alarm and jumped on a Zoom at 10 am. Usually, Sunday is the one day a week I choose to sleep in, be lazy, and not do anything productive. I do not like getting up early, but I can’t help myself; I just keep doing… 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 »
Why teach maker education?
If you have been teaching in a makerbased setting you probably know that it is a good learning experience. You would also know that there are a variety of challenges that both the teacher and the students meet, when they begin their journey into making. If you haven´t – then I strongly urge you to… Read more »
Culture and making, strong and powerful connection
During conversations between FabLearn fellows, the question often arises as to what is actually meant by the term “cultural making”: is it an action linked to the culture of origin or is it a human attitude that is declined according to the context of belonging? Personally, I’m becoming more and more convinced that it is… Read more »
Special Needs Lab
This schoolyear a big change has occurred at our space. We have expanded our space with 400 square meters to start a new school for children with special needs, combining traditional school with our makerspace adding 40 students and 12 new colleagues to our daily life. The idea of the new school is that the… 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 »
Online teacher training in Mathematics Teaching: Maker Education and STEM Approach to Promoting Active Learning
This personal report is related to the context of Brazilian schools, but I believe that some of the issues I will raise in this text dialogue with other realities. ***** At the end of this year’s first semester, I was invited to organize teacher training[1] workshops for Mathematics teachers from public schools in the Brazilian… Read more »