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Developing a Sensitivity to Design:
Looking Closely and Exploring Complexity
Trainer : Dr Edward Peter Clapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Date : 2 August 2016, Tuesday & 4 August 2016, Thursday (Full)
Venue : To be confirmed
Time : 9:00AM to 12.00PM
Closing Date : 15 July 2016 Friday
Workshop Fee: S$250.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$200.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials and 1 tea break. Invoices will be sent to the schools/clusters after the workshop.
Workshop Description
Educational initiatives that emphasize making, engineering, and tinkering are becoming increasingly more popular in K-12 education. Makerspaces, fab labs, and design classes are bringing with them exciting new tools, technologies, and curricula. What is worthwhile about maker-centered learning? What are the most salient benefits of these maker-centered experiences? In this workshop session participants will engage in a series of hands-on activities aimed at exploring these questions and considering how pedagogical practice can support the core principles of maker-centered learning. Using thinking routines developed through the Agency by Design (AbD) project, participants will explore AbD’s core concept of maker empowerment and the sensitivity to design framework, focusing on the first two core capacities of this framework: looking closely and exploring complexity.
Target Audience
Classroom teachers of all levels, staff developers, teachers of leadership programs and institutes, and leaders of school systems.
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Developing a Sensitivity to Design:
Finding Opportunity
Trainer : Dr Edward Peter Clapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Date : 2 August 2016, Tuesday & 4 August 2016, Thursday (Full)
Venue : To be confirmed
Time : 1.00PM to 4.00PM
Closing Date : 15 July 2016 Friday
Limited to 30 participants per workshop, register now to avoid disappointment
Workshop Fee: S$250.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$200.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials and 1 tea break. Invoices will be sent to the schools/clusters after the workshop.
Workshop Description
Identifying opportunities to enact one’s agency and affect change is a key aspect of maker-centered learning experiences, and a core element of the AbD concept of maker empowerment. But, as Project Zero research on thinking and learning suggests, finding opportunity is often difficult for young people who are too frequently told when and how to think throughout their highly programmed experiences in conventional schooling. How then, can maker-centered learning experiences be structured to help young people see opportunities to affect change? Building off of the previous workshop, during this session participants will once again engage in a series of hands-on activities to explore the third capacity of the AbD sensitivity to design framework: finding opportunity.
Target Audience
Classroom teachers of all levels, staff developers, teachers of leadership programs and institutes, and leaders of school systems.
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Developing Systems Thinking through
Maker-Centered Learning
Trainer : Dr Edward Peter Clapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Date : 3 August 2016, Wednesday FULL or 5 August 2016, Friday
Venue : To be confirmed
Time : 9.00AM to 12.00PM
Closing Date : 15 July 2016 Friday
Limited to 30 participants per workshop, register now to avoid disappointment
Workshop Fee: S$250.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$200.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials and 1 tea break. Invoices will be sent to the schools/clusters after the workshop.
Click here to register for the workshop on 5 August 2016
Workshop Description
In our deeply inter-connected and globalized world, making and design experiences are always situated within broader systems. Part of developing a sensitivity to design, therefore, includes developing one’s understanding of the designed nature of systems.
During this workshop session, participants will engage in several hands-on activities that utilize AbD thinking routines that have been designed to explore systems thinking within the context of maker-centered learning. By doing so, participants will consider how the values and interests of various stakeholders are addressed when young people and adults pose innovations within greater systems through building, tinkering, re/designing, and hacking.
Target Audience
Classroom teachers of all levels, staff developers, teachers of leadership programs and institutes, and leaders of school systems.
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Do-it-Together: Exploring the Distributed Nature of
Teaching and Learning in the Maker-Centered Classroom
Trainer : Dr Edward Peter Clapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Date : 3 August 2016, Tuesday Full & 5 August 2016, Friday
Venue : To be confirmed
Time : 1.00PM to 4PM
Closing Date : 15 July 2016 Friday
Limited to 30 participants per workshop, register now to avoid disappointment
Workshop Fee: S$250.00 per participant. If 2 or more participants from the same school/organization attend the same workshop, the discounted fee will be S$200.00 per participant for that particular workshop. Fees are subject to GST and include all training materials and 1 tea break. Invoices will be sent to the schools/clusters after the workshop.
Click here to register for the workshop on 5 August 2016
Workshop Description
The Maker Movement has been described as a return to the DIY (do-it-yourself) movement of the 1960s and 70s. Nonetheless, many makers have suggested that the “DIY” moniker is in itself a misnomer for maker-centered learning. Making isn’t about doing things oneself―one may argue―instead, making is about collectively engaging in innovation networks together. During this hands-on workshop session, participants will engage in a series of fast-paced design challenges that emphasize the do-it-together nature of maker-centered learning experiences and the distributed nature of teaching and learning within the maker-centered classroom. The ultimate goal for this session is to provide participants with first-hand experience in group-based creative problem solving activities, while also offering participants strategies for incorporating these activities―and others like them―into an array of learning environments. In the end, participants will walk away from this session with sensitivity to the social dimensions of maker-centered learning experiences and an increased awareness of the participatory and distributed nature of teaching and learning in the maker-centered classroom.
Target Audience
Classroom teachers of all levels, staff developers, teachers of leadership programs and institutes, and leaders of school systems.
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ABOUT THE TRAINER - Dr Edward Peter Clapp
 Edward P. Clapp is a senior research manager and a member of the core research team working on the Agency by Design initiative an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker-centered learning at Project Zero, an educational research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Clapp's current research interests include creativity and innovation, maker education, design thinking, and contemporary approaches to arts teaching and learning. In the past, Edward has worked with Project Zero on the multiyear research initiative, the Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education. In addition to his work as an educational researcher, Edward is an HGSE Lecturer on Education and co-instructor (with Carrie James) of the HGSE course "Thinking and Learning Today and Tomorrow: Project Zero Perspectives." Edward is also an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design where he teaches a graduate level course entitled "Principles of Pedagogy for the Studio Arts Educator." In 2013 Edward coedited Expanding Our Vision for the Arts in Education, the most recent special issue of the Harvard Educational Review. Independently, in 2010 Edward edited the anthology 20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, a collection of 20 essays about the future of the arts sector written by young and emerging arts leaders under the age of 40. Edward holds a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) and Masters of Education (Ed.M.) from HGSE, a Masters of Letters (M.Litt.) in poetry from the University of Glasgow/Strathclyde, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to his academic pursuits, Edward has also published his poetry and fiction in national and international literary magazines and has had his plays produced Off-Off-Broadway in New York. Web: http://scholar.harvard.edu/edwardclapp Social: @edwardpclapp
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