Gameblox is a game-building platform developed at the Scheller Teacher Education Program over the last couple years and featured in the EdTechX series of online courses produced by our lab. In this workshop, Paul Medlock-Walton will introduce Gameblox with beginner tutorials and a discussion on how Gameblox is designed to be used in classrooms.
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Option 3: TaleBlazer “Grapefruit Tour” of campus
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Option 2: Gameblox workshop – A brand new blocks-based programming environment for creating games
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Option 1: Circuit Sticker workshop – Combine paper, conductive stickers, and lights to make artful circuitry
Jie Qi will lead a workshop using the Circuit Sticker kits she created as a researcher in the High-Low Tech and Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Lab. Along with creating circuits of their own, teachers will find out how Circuit Sticker projects are designed for use in the classroom.
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McNamara Design Challenge
Rik Eberhardt from the MIT Game Lab and Carole Urbano from the Education Arcade will facilitate a workshop for current and past SEPT teachers to collaborate and co-create classroom materials that draw from the past week (and past years!) of SEPT.
We will start the design challenge with a primer on using game design as a method of summative assessment, by designing our own game about one of the concepts we’ve learned this past week. Afterwards, participants will be encouraged to work on their own or in self-formed teams to consider the use of tools and concepts from the past week in their curriculum and lesson plans.
Participants will present their creations on Saturday morning.
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Project Guts and StarLogo Nova
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Fishbanks: Using simulations to teach systems thinking and sustainability
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Option 3: “Circuit Sticker workshop: Combine paper, conductive stickers, and lights to make artful circuitry”
Jie Qi will lead a workshop using the Circuit Sticker kits she created as a researcher in the High-Low Tech and Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Lab. Along with creating circuits of their own, teachers will find out how Circuit Sticker projects are designed for use in the classroom.
Paper Electronics Resources (from Jie Qi):
Chibitronics Circuit Stickers: http://chibitronics.com/
Jie’s paper electronics projects: http://technolojie.com/category/featured-projects/
– pop-up book: http://technolojie.com/454/
– self-folding paper: http://technolojie.com/inputoutput-paper/
– dandelion painting: http://technolojie.com/pu-gong-ying-tu-dandelion-painting/
Circuit Scribe silver ink pen (works on any paper): http://www.circuitscribe.com/
Agic silver ink pen (works on photo paper, can be inkjet printed): http://agic.cc/
Conductive paints: http://lessemf.com/paint.html
Yshield: graphite paint (not as conductive as metals)
cupro-cote paint: copper water-based paint (store air-tight as will corrode)
bare conductive carbon paint: http://www.bareconductive.com/
Paper Circuits in the classroom: http://www.nexmap.org/21c-notebooking-io
Hacking the Notebook online community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/106297899247135466221
Instructables tutorials: http://www.instructables.com/howto/chibitronics/
Paper Circuits activities from Exploratorium museum: http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/paper-circuit
Fun experiments in circuit craft: http://kit-of-no-parts.at/
Read more: Option 3: “Circuit Sticker workshop: Combine paper, conductive stickers, and lights to make artful circuitry”
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Option 2: “Gameblox workshop: A brand new blocks-based programming environment for creating games”
Gameblox is a game-building platform developed at the Scheller Teacher Education Program over the last couple years and featured in the EdTechX series of online courses produced by our lab. In this workshop, Paul Medlock-Walton will introduce Gameblox with beginner tutorials and a discussion on how Gameblox is designed to be used in classrooms.
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McNamara Workshop – Nuclear Reactor Lab Lecture and Design Challenge
The MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab educates school groups and the wider public about the reactor on campus – it supports research in spacecraft reactors, cancer treatments, the study of autism, and next generation power plants!… a mix that should meet the many interests of SEPT and NEST teachers. On Thursday, June 25th, we’ll ask SEPT and NEST teachers:
- Have you ever been part of a hackathon?
- Did you know there’s a nuclear reactor at MIT?
- What would happen if we combine the extraordinary talents of SEPT and NEST teachers with experts at the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab?
As an exciting edition to our NEST Reunion program this year, we’re incorporating a design challenge into this year’s McNamara Workshop! With guidance from researchers at the Nuclear Reactor Lab (NRL), we’ll form teams to design activities, materials, or lessons on nuclear science – in the style of an MIT hackathon!
Following a lecture about nuclear science, NRL staff will “pitch” a challenge to SEPT and NEST to redesign or add instructional elements to their outreach program – a combination of a tour and lecture for visitors to the reactor.
For NEST members who arrive by Thursday evening, it’s not too late to sign up to be part of the full Nuclear Reactor Lab Design Challenge! NEST members who participate are eligible to receive 10 PDPs (1CEU), and prizes, too – just email me (sept@mit.edu) to join the fun!
Check out the final presentations here!
Winners of the SEPT 2015 Nuclear Reactor Lab Design Challenge. Read more…
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Evening ProgramRead more: McNamara Workshop – Nuclear Reactor Lab Lecture and Design Challenge
