Medfield Digital Learning Day 2017

Want to bring innovation, invention and creativity to your lessons? Want some ideas of how to bring STEM/STEAM experiences to your students? If yes, this session is for you! We'll talk about the Engineering Design Process, which engages students to ask, imagine, plan, create, test & improve and share. Want to experience a STEM challenge and/or play with robots? We'll have time for that too - why should kids have all the fun?!

Here's the link to this presentation.

Do you have a lesson you really want to reinvent?  Or learn a cool tool, you’re not sure how to integrate?  How about having a plan but no time to implement?  Here’s your chance to spend some time working on those lessons/projects that need a little TLC.  

You’re invited (with or without colleagues) to bring a lesson you've wanted to redesign.  Tech advice and resources are available from facilitators.

Prestionation available here

Building a Makerspace can be a daunting challenge. Join us for a look into Makerspace essentials, learn what key questions to ask BEFORE making major purchases, and insight into what successful schools are doing with their space!

Our presentation can be found here.

Little Bits has sparked the Maker spirit at Blake as we combine Design Thinking and Inventing with these versatile electronic legos! Come join us to TAKE THE CHALLENGE ! Illuminate your world using Little Bits! The invention of electric light was a game-changer for all human (and non-human!) kind. In this challenge, we want you to harness the all-powerful LED to build your own glowing invention. You can create...

• a secret flashlight for late-night reading
• a hat that lights the way on your next adventure
• a lantern to decorate a party
• a machine that makes light dance
• a bioluminescent animal

Use your inventor imagination to brighten up a dark situation. You can jump in and start making or follow our super easy-to-follow inventor steps to get started! 

* Of course you'll leave with ideas of how to bring this into your students' learning!

GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION 

Building a Makerspace can be a daunting challenge. Join us for a look into Makerspace essentials, learn what key questions to ask BEFORE making major purchases, and insight into what successful schools are doing with their space!

Our presentation can be found here.

Have you ever wondered how to incorporate project based learning and design thinking into your curriculum?  
Our makerspace has a variety of tools that has allowed students to have hands on learning experiences.
We will discuss how learning is happening at the WHS Fab Lab through integrating curriclum, and through individual projects. 
Hear student descriptions about what this has meant to their learning.
See the projects students have created for ELA, Science, Social Studies, World Language, Art and more.  
Learn how this idea has spread to the middle school and elementary schools.
Slides to our presentation 

What can 3D printing do for your classroom. Soon Medfield will have a Makerspace where students can turn imagination into reality. Learn the basic tools (Thingiverse, TinkerCAD, and Makerbot Print) used in the process as you create your own 3D print.

The session will include: examples of 3D printing that can be used in the classroom, group discussion of how to make successful prints and the pit falls of 3d printers, examples about the exciting extensions of 3D printing in the non-school world.

Be sure to bring your device!

Medfield High School Senior Zach Girard will be co-presenting at this session.