We Are Lifelong Learners
On January 24th, 2018, we held our 1st Maker Summit. The purpose of the event was to immerse our teachers in Maker-Centered-Learning experiences, which required them to manipulate technologies, tools, and even methodologies, such as Virtual Reality apps and glasses, Osmo kits, Stop Motion and Green Screening video tools, as well as Design Thinking. Here are some of the things we hoped to achieve with these immersion experiences. We wanted our fellow teachers: to have the student experience by diving in the challenges right from the start. We wanted to give them space to tinker, to play with the tools being used in each experience; to reflect on the hands-on, immersive experience and the difficulties, challenges, successes, and insecurities that surfaced. We wanted them to connect to those feelings that arose while they engaged in each of the experiences together with their peers; to identify possible opportunities for the use of those technologies, tools and methodologies in ou