Run, Marble, Run!

A Tinkering Experience

Image Credit: “M

arbles”, Nick H

arris via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Jim Tiffin Jr. - @JimTiffinJrMount Vernon Presbyterian SchoolSummit for Transformative Learning – MICDSJune 7 - 9, 2015

Plan for the ExperienceOverview– Personal Thoughts– Team Up Preflection– Some Tinkering– Pause– Some More Tinkering– Thoughtful Reflection

Sharing– Please tweet with the hashtags

#STLinSTL & #MakerEd

Experience ResourcesFind the goodies we’ll talk about…

…and some we won’t ……here at:

jamestiffinjr.com/presentations

(Look for the session “Run, Marble, Run” in the 2015 list!)

Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way

to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”

Sylvia Martinez & Gary StagerInvent to Learn

Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way

to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”

Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way

to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”

Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way

to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”

Why Tinker?“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way

to approach and solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.”

Why Make?

To Learn Content

To Learn to Learn

To Show Learnin

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Why Make?

To Learn Content

To Learn to Learn

To Show Learnin

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general

Why Make?

To Learn Content

To Learn to Learn

To Show Learnin

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Today’s workshop

Less Me, More You!A Visible Thinking Routine– Parts, Purposes, Complexities

Image Credit: “Kids playing with the Exploratorium’s marble wall”, Matt Mechtley via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Your Prompt

“Build a marble run that gets the marble into the cup as slow as

possible.”

(It’s really a marble walk, actually )

Less Me, More You!Preflection– Think to yourself…

Less Me, More You!Team Up– Find your partner from the SPARK

Workshop-wide D.I.T.Sharing on Post-It Notes–What is working?–What is not working?

Image Credit: “Office Cube with Post-It Notes- 20130122-9568.jpg”, Michael Arrighi via Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Your Prompt

Build a marble run that gets the marble into the cup as slow as

possible.

(It’s really a marble walk, actually )

Tinker Pause

Take a stroll to see Post-it Notes and other marble runs… err,

walks.

Back to Tinkering

Build a marble run that gets the marble into the cup as slow as

possible.

DebriefFrom a participant’s point of view…

Image Credits: “Like”, Thomas Angerman via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0“Wishing You All A Happy Mother’s Day”, Dawn via Flickr, CC BY 2.0

“Wonder Woman”, Julian Fong via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

Questions

What do want to ask me?What do you want to ask the room?

Thank You

Thank you for sharing your time and ideas with me!