Students at Keet Gooshi Heen Elementary use makerspace tools to create — anything they want. “My biggest concern,” says Jason Ohler, PhD, “is that makerspace doesn’t become another fad.” (Video capture/Digital promise)
The Sitka School Board stopped worrying about education funding for about an hour Wednesday evening (5-17-17) — to make stuff.
The board convened in a work session for a hands-on presentation on the district’s mobile makerspace cart, which just completed its first year of testing in elementary classrooms.
banana tunes
School board members Jenn McNichol and Eric VanCise are transforming a banana into a piano keyboard. Member Dionne Brady is sketching a birthday cake on a piece of paper, and she clips a wire to her drawing.
happy birthday
The wires and the pencil lead complete an…
