The use of Moodle in STEM education, maker spaces and Fab Labs Presentation at Moodlemoot Edinburgh UK, April 2014 Pieter van der Hijden msc ([email protected] ) Centre of Expertise in Education & ICTs Suriname www.ecoisonline.org www.sofos.nl Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The use of Moodle in STEM education, maker spaces and Fab Labs; Pieter van der Hijden; Moodlemoot, Edinburgh UK, 2014
Sep 01, 2014
In the fifties, in many western countries hobby clubs emerged, that shared tools and knowledge. In the eighties, the same happened with computer clubs, sharing a matrix printer or a telephone modem. Now they have a new successor: MILK (made-in-Limerick) labs, Happy Lab Vienna, Protospace Utrecht, Buda Lab Kortrijk, and more generically the Fab Labs, Maker spaces, repair cafés, and hacker spaces. They all focus on making, learning, sharing and empowering.
The popularity of the maker concept has its impact on more and more educational institutes. To motivate their students, to improve their STE(A)M education, many school organise tours to the nearest Fab Lab, promote project activities there or set-up their own Fab Lab embedded in their school. In fact, it is a new trend in social constructivism.
We will shortly introduce you to this new world and reflect on its opportunities and threats for Moodle.
The popularity of the maker concept has its impact on more and more educational institutes. To motivate their students, to improve their STE(A)M education, many school organise tours to the nearest Fab Lab, promote project activities there or set-up their own Fab Lab embedded in their school. In fact, it is a new trend in social constructivism.
We will shortly introduce you to this new world and reflect on its opportunities and threats for Moodle.
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The use of Moodle in STEM education, maker spaces and
Fab LabsPresentation at Moodlemoot
Edinburgh UK, April 2014
Pieter van der Hijden msc ([email protected])
Centre of Expertise in Education & ICTs Suriname www.ecoisonline.org
www.sofos.nl Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Background Pieter van der Hijden
Consultant e-learning, Fab Lab, gaming/simulation The Netherlands (Sofos) and Suriname (ECOIS)
The use of Moodle in STEM education, maker spaces and Fab Labs STE(A)M = Science, Technology, Engineering, (Arts),
Mathematics Moodle and maker movement have much in common! How about their intersection / cross fertilization?
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Agenda
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1. Technologies, communities and schools
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1. Technologies, communities and schoolsYear Phenomenon Community Assumed impact
on education1950 Radio /
electronicsHobby club School events
1970 Personal computers
Computer club
Improved learning thanks to ict
1990 Video games LANfest, MORPG
Learning through gaming/simulation
2010 Digital fabrication tools
Maker movement, maker faire
Tinkering as social constructivist learning
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2. Maker movement
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2. Maker movementHype or trend?
Gartner: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2013
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2. Maker movementCharacteristics Worldwide Loosely connected From layman to prof Mix of technologies Ict in design, production
and products Making, sharing,
learning Open design, open
software, open hardware
Number of Fab Labs worldwide doubles every 1.5 years, now 250+; http://bit.ly/1fXPQEm
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2. Maker movementConcepts
Fab Lab Maker Space TechShop
Origin MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (Neil Gershenfeld)
Make magazine Commercial initiative
Inventory Limited set of digital production machines
Not defined Extended set of machines & tools
Target audience
Everybody Everybody Everybody
Legal Independent foundations or embedded in institutes
Community based Holding with subsidiaries
Set-up costs 50-100,000 USD 5-20,000 USD 1-2,000,000 USDEntry fee Free (at some days of
week)Free Subscription100
USD monthlyNumber 250+ Unknown 5Geographical Worldwide USA, Europe,
Asia, EgyptUSA, plans to go Europe
Mission Learning, sharing Making (for the maker faire)
Making/ earning
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3. A typical Fab Lab
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3. A typical Fab LabWhat do you see? 3D scanner 3D printer Laser cutter Milling machine(s) Vinyl cutter Electronics Computers Teleconference set Etc.
At the top a CNC milling machine (behind safety glass), in the centre a 3D mobile scanner plus laptop, at the bottom a laser cutter / engraver. Source: Fab Lab Paramaribo
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3. A typical Fab LabWhat is happening? One time visitors Regular visitors,
tinkerers, students Special project
teams Designing Making
Source: Fab Lab Paramaribo
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3. A typical Fab LabWhich role for ICT? Ict in design
2D & 3D design software
Ict in production All machines are ict
driven Ict in products
Intelligent products Internet of things Raspberry Pi Arduino Source: Fab Lab Paramaribo
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4. STEM education
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4. STEM educationclass centered Classes Labs with parallel
groups Moodle and science
teaching Reflection and
journal Math formulas Animated molecules Dynamic graphs
Packt Publishing: book cover
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4. STEM educationmaker centered Outreach activity Curriculum activities
Dedicated projects Free assignments
Moodle Backbone for learning
and knowledge management
Component in intelligent systems!
Constructing modern knowledge press: book cover
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5. Opportunities
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5. Opportunitiesfor STEM education Motivation Learning outcomes
Social learning Learning by making
Side effects Informed citizen Economy (more STEM) Meet other disciplines Meet the world
Lab for teachers
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5. Opportunitiesfor Moodle Tradional
Support learning Cheap, easy Integrated
New Support designing Knowledge management New target groups
Hot Moodle as system
component! Datalogging, IO Raspberry Pi
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6. Threats
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6. Threatsfor STEM education Still under
development! Vision
goals and outcomes Materials
projects, lesson plans Expertise
facilitating in design and manufacture
Infrastructure no plug and play Instructables: http://
bit.ly/1nnX7nx
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6. Threatsfor Moodle Traditional
Culture clash Hype sensitive Reinvent the wheel
New Handicaps
Mainly text oriented No designs No data
Hot Competitor may find the
grail
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7. Welcome on board
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7. Welcome on board Observations? Questions? Opinions?
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References
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References Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education: The Democratization of Invention; Paulo Blikstein; in: In J.
Walter-Herrmann & C. Büching (Eds.), FabLabs: Of Machines, Makers and Inventors; Bielefeld: Transcript Publishers; 2013; http://stanford.io/1cMLRdL
Fab Lab At School; website; https://tltl.stanford.edu/projects/fablabschool Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication; Neil
Gershenfeld; Basic Books, 2007; http://amzn.to/1fXMb9p Four in balance monitor 2013; Kennisnet, The Netherlands, 2013; http://bit.ly/1lLN9hc Gartner's 2013 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps Out Evolving Relationship Between
Humans and Machines; http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2575515 Getting Started with Arduino; Massimo Banzi; Maker Media, 2011; http://bit.ly/1i1Bgkk Getting Started with Raspberry Pi; Matt Richardson; Maker Media, 2012; http://bit.ly/1i1BtUw Instructables; website; http://www.instructables.com International Fab Lab Association; website; http://www.fablabinternational.org Invent to learn; making, tinkering, and engineering in the classroom; Sylvia L. Martinez, Gary Stager;
Constructing Modern Knowledge Press; 2013; http://www.inventtolearn.com/ Maker space playbook; 2013; http://bit.ly/1lLMMTT Making, living, sharing; movie; a Fab Lab world documentary; Jens Dyvik; http://bit.ly/MZ4Uup Science teaching with Moodle 2.0; Vincent L. Stocker; Packt Publishing, Birmingham UK, 2011;
http://bit.ly/1lbQ8wm Science teaching with Moodle 2.0; Vincent Stocker; Packt Publishing, Birmingham, UK, 2011;
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Thank you for your attention!Pieter van der Hijden msc ([email protected])
2014 – Pieter van der Hijden ([email protected]) – 2014 - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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