Nick Schiner - Digital Promise

Notes

• Continuing education to schools. Maker education.
• Baltimore maker program
• Nick - cost of buying filamnet
• Put a printer in each school - needs a filament budget
• Training for building a grinder in a school - to produce filament
• Building a grinder + Filament Maker - save tons of money on filament
• Scope and sequence for a teacher? Meld these 2.
• Profesional Development -
• Another org - engineering courses
• Root things in design thinking - developing student agency - tying it to standards - tie in to professional development - what assessment pieces for this
• Professional development - is microcredentials
• "Deeper Learning through Making"
• Professional Development that they created -
• https://www.holacracy.org/ - MakerEd in Oakland - can sign a Make
• Technical training - is always good.
• Did a router build in 3 days.
• Technical training is a specific level. Create conditions for that.
• Pair it with as a whole -
• Thought processes - and what you get out of it
• real hook - introduce the idea of public design - idea of creating something easier and cheaper to a common good - enlist teachers of the world to expand that idea. Take it from opening it to the world angle, public design is good.
• On our - beginnings of the broad strokes - will run it call - The League of Innovative Schools.
• https://digitalpromise.org/initiative/league-of-innovative-schools/
• Different ways - thematic toolkit, curriculum for teachers, OS solutions and applying to things we can learn about.
• Josh - Nick's supervisor
• Project toolkit - not specific curriculum, but support materials - models, example of curriculum integration. Embedding making and open source economy.
• Maker Learning Leadership Framework - toolkit around maker learning
• Can be a microredential, or not.
• Do schools have a budget for continuing education? Varies from district to district. Title 1 funding - is Federal funding - rock stars for trainings
• Training librarians?
• How to get teachers to build a 3D printer? Smaller market, but
• How do we address getting the scare out of 3Dextremely printing?
• Get a 3D printer and buy it - you get part of experience - but if you build it - you know it extremely well.
• Worskhops on builds of 3D printers for teacher.
• Taking some of the ideas we talked about - how do we introduce the idea of OS Economy into schools? Bilds are a part - but the big part is building something to make it more broadly available - easy to source parts etc.
• Take the TED talk and convert it to teachable pieces. And what is economic and social impact. Make money. Think locally, act globally.
• Bad batch app - bad drugs awareness.
• Appeal to students or teachers - common products to make money.
• Revenue and social impact is good.

Jen

• Contact homeschool program - and get on AVL list.
• Less likely pay for hardware - but will pay for a build -
• Put together a build package to sell -
• Lots of home schoolers are about self-reliance
• 3 Funding sources for homeschoolers - on
• Idea and Connections - register as a vendor through different programs.
• Gather information - which states have homeschooling programs, what money they give, what topics
• $800 or $1000 -
• Homeschool Program - state certified program, they are typically government funded organizations that give funding, technical assistance.
• It's guaranteed that you get a certain
• Connections - home school program - like public school at home.
• Public home school programs vs private home school programs. You enroll in the program.
• Ex. of private home school - people have to pay for private homeschool programs.
• State homeschool - state money.
• Approved Vendor List of Homeschool Program. Make it easy to choose our printer.
• Alaska -
• Homeschooling Groups - on social media, message a manager of a homeschooler group
• Go to the parents directly - this is an entrepreneurial opportunity.
• Product package for homeschoolers - off-grid, entrepreneurial, open source, classical education,
• Acton Academy - very entrepreneurial