This was the opening keynote for the 2019 FabLearn conference at Columbia University Teachers College. It was an unusual keynote for this special audience, with a lot of detail about the role of Seymour Papert and his powerful ideas of “objects to think with” and constructionism. It was also a call for the education community to take back the idea of “Making” as a pedagogy, not as a VC funded brand identity. The video does not capture all the slides, so some of it is a bit hard to follow. I plan to add the slides soon.
New Zealand Principals Conference 2018
INTED 2018 – (30 minute keynote) A Global Revolution Goes to School: The Maker Movement.
TECH 2017 – UNESCO Changemaker Conference keynote – Design and Innovation in Schools. This is a 15 minute opening keynote as part of a “provocation” panel on the topic of design and school innovation. The video of the entire session is here.
ELH Keynote (video) – Hard Fun and Problem Solving – Where Computing Meets Tinkering and Design
Closing Keynote – Maker Possibilities Day (Maker Faire event sponsored by MakerEd Foundation and Intel) – The Top Ten Things Maker Educators Know (video got lost). Text here.
Webinars
Keynote for online Global Education Conference 2017
Vickie “Cool Cat Teacher” Davis hosted me for a 10 minute podcast about “The 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering” on her podcast, “The 10-Minute Teacher Show.“