Nick Schiner - Digital Promise

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Conversation 2

  • Need funding - if we had a budget - what would it look like for a collaboration
  • Proposal for funding -
  • Technical training on builds doesn't make as much sense
  • But a unit of study on the open source economy does make sense
  • Codevelopment, site visits, continuing education
  • FB collab on curriculum
  • Go down the avenue of bringing awereness about open source
  • Co-development of professional development
  • Co-construct the professional development
  • Realistic program - draft of what we think is good for teachers; landscape; how do you contribute to open development; etc.
  • Nick - has a research team; qualitative and quantitative development; webinars to present
  • Scope of work and funding is needed
  • Have tiers for what we want to do - levels of cost/effort
  • On funding -
  • Todd Croskin - superintendent in Pittsburg, PA - up to K-12. The Dream Factory.
  • Large network - for connecting to people to do things.
  • Can connect us to different people
  • Connect to Maker Learning Networks
  • Staff hours - billed out to different funders. 75-80% is staff hours. Scope of Work.
  • OSE is education affiliated - not education focused.
  • What is staff rate for Digital Promise -
  • Grants - chicken and the egg.
  • Curriculum Development Background - what is it
  • Does Digital Promise have grantwriters?
  • Do we have access to on-contingency grant writers?
  • MakerEd
  • MicroCredential
  • On our side
  • Connect us to other inquiry-based teachers.

Meeting 1

Notes - Conversation 1

  • 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