Episode 30: Manhattan Make-A-Thon

This episode is about Maker Education, but also about the high
stakes of designing high quality professional experiences for
educators. There are still too many professional experiences
meant to hone craft, build skills, and excite that are way too
dull.


Manhattan Make-A-Thon is something different. And for that, it
deserves a lot of credit. Earlier in the year, Lori Stahl
Van-Brackle, Director of Instructional Technology for the
Manhattan Field Support Center at the NYC DOE, challenged 20
schools in a special cohort to design maker-driven learning
experiences that they would test with young people at school, and
then lead experiential training at the make-a-thon: rooms upon
rooms full of educators sewing, hammering, hot-glueing away while
they discuss pedagogy alongside their peers. Many of them brought
students, too. Which, where it worked, was an exciting glimpse at
what it looks like when learning isn't something bestowed upon
us, but is constructed through experience and interaction, and
can most certainly be shared at the same time between teacher and
student.


My thanks to the talented team who made it possible. The
following is a series of interviews with participants as the day
unfolded.


SPECIAL THANKS TO:


Casey, Kenya, Carol, Mr. Deepak Kapoor


Amanda Solarsh, and Caitlyn from MS 104


PS 191 in Manhattan


Amy Sachs from Roberto Clemente, PS 15


Jessica Wenke from Teq


and David Wells from NYSCI


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