In September we came together to play and discuss the classroom applications of The Extraordinaries Design Studio Plus, a creative thinking game that walks users through the design process touching on empathetic user research, product ideation, visual communication, and product refinement.
Garreth Heidt provided the game and PlusUs hosted the meeting a WeWork Northern Liberties, a co-working space new to Philly that is transforming how entrepreneurs work.
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Margaret Powers, a STEAM educator at Agnes Irwin School, led our first design round table discussing how she might bring pop up professional development events to engage her coworkers and students in design thinking exercises.
PlusUs hosted the meeting at WeWork Northern Liberties, a co-working space new to Philly that is transforming how entrepreneurs work.
This month PlusUs hosted a LEE talk at Broken Goblet Brewery featuring a short talk from Michael Darfler, former program director of the Department of Making + Doing, a makerspace located in The University City Science Center,. Michael spoke about his experiences at the Department of Making + Doing, and the importance of making things tangible. He then led a discussion on how to integrate making principles into their classroom. Following the talk, the League took part in a tower building activity to demonstrate how a simple making activity can bring people together.
Tower Building Activity Sheet The inaugural League of Extraordinary Educators meetup was a series of short TED style talks. Thomas Ullom, Department Head of Technology Education at MaST CCS, discussed how technology can help move education to a discovery-based model. Wynn Geary, a graduating senior at Science Leadership Academy discussed how his experiences with inquiry driven and project based learning allowed him to find a symbiotic relationship between his personal interests and his education. Anna Hentz, a gifted humanities teacher at Shafer Middle School, discussed how today’s teachers can keep up with increasing demands and provided strategies and guiding principles to do so.
PlusUs hosted the talks at Broken Goblet Brewery, a craft brewer in Bensalem. |