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Empathy &STEAM

Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

www.InventToLearn.com

Maker tools, materials, & tech

Tinkering mindset

Engineering design

Make the case for “making” in the classroom

robotics e-textiles 3D printing micro:bit Scratch Raspberry Pi programming electronics sensors laser cutters STEM/STEAM

Making in the K-3

Classroom

Alice Baggett

Why, How,

Exciting STEM Projects!

Y The Invent to Learn Guide to

and Wow!

Invent to Learn Guides

Books from CMK Press cmkpress.com

Virtual Handout

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“Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.” - Margaret Atwood

What is the role of the STEAM teaching

community in developing ethics and empathy?

Teach Ethics

Develop Ethics

STEAMAction AestheticsAgencyDesign

STEAMA is the verb -

it’s what you do

“For people in the Deaf community, and linguists, the sign-language glove is rooted in the preoccupations of the hearing world, not the needs of Deaf signers.”

What’s the Difference?

Can Do

Should Do

Common Ethical Concerns of Educational Technology

• Digital citizenship

• Intellectual property

• Bullying

• Social media

• Digital footprint

• Information privacy

• Legal obligations (FERPA, etc.)

Technology Ethical Dilemmas• Personalized genetic tests/personalized medicine• Hacking into medical devices• Driverless cars• 3-D printing• Adaptation to climate change• Low-quality and counterfeit pharmaceuticals• Autonomous systems• Human-animal hybrids (chimeras)• Ensuring access to wireless and spectrum• Data collection and privacy• Human enhancements

University of Notre Dame's John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values

Technology Ethical Dilemmas• Personalized genetic tests/personalized medicine• Hacking into medical devices• Driverless cars• 3-D printing• Adaptation to climate change• Low-quality and counterfeit pharmaceuticals• Autonomous systems• Human-animal hybrids (chimeras)• Ensuring access to wireless and spectrum• Data collection and privacy• Human enhancements

What’s appropriate (and practical) for students to address?

• Students can experiment/simulate without risk• New project ideas• Thought experiments• Personal interest• Generational fluency• A belief that this is something they can and will

be asked to take charge of• Computational literacy

Technology Ethical Dilemmas

“Pick any field “X,” from archaeology to zoology. There either is now a “computational X”, or there soon will be. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever—the future of all these professions will be full of computational thinking. ” - Stephan Wolfram

Students discuss case studies of realistic, but mostly social situations

Fabrication

Ethical questions• Should we add to the amount of plastic

stuff in the world?

• Are there greener alternatives to printer

• It’s legal to make a gun (in the US) - should it be legal to 3D print one?

Legal questions

• Should you make a Baby Yoda keychain?

World Economic Forum Global Shapers 2016 Survey - 26,000 responses 18 to 35 year olds from 187 countries and territories

Young people are concerned…

but optimistic

World Economic Forum Global Shapers 2016 Survey - 26,000 responses 18 to 35 year olds from 187 countries and territories

Fairness

Mimi & Eunice, “Freedom or Fairness?” by Nancy Paley http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/09/12/freedom-or-fairness/

Algorithm Bias• All algorithms have

• Lack of diversity in data pools

• Lack of diversity in people creating algorithms

AI based on biased data sets results in biased outcomes

Biased dispenser - lemonade is diluted based on postal code financial demographics

Am I Normal?

Making Models in STEAM

• Explain your work

• Make a diagram, blueprint, sketch or drawing

• Make a prototype to scale

• Program a simulation

• Make a conceptual model

• Mentor someone

• Make an infographic, or data visual

• Design a scientific test cmpress.com

The Trolley Problem

• Ethics, not technology

• Value of lives

• Would you pay to influence the decision (toll lanes, first class)

“Kids born today will never get to drive a car.” Henrik Christensen, director of the University of California San Diego’s Contextual Robotics Institute.

Google AI Experiments

Encourage evidence-based conversations

Ethics come from Empathy

Empathy is too narrowly defined if you limit it to “audience.” This focus reveals the origins of the design

thinking process in product development and marketing.

You can empathize with people, animals, or the whole world. You can design things that bring beauty and joy to

the world. It doesn’t have to always solve a problem or win Shark Tank.

Sometimes ethical design is not popular.

There are new opportunities for

students to exercise their ethical muscles

Fourth industrial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution

“Blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological spheres.”

Circular Design• Takes into account all aspects of

product or system life-cycle, from material source to eventual disposal

• Use waste-stream products as source materials

• Design to eliminate waste and pollution

• Sustainability

Biomaking & BiohackingBiomaking - Making with Biology

• Grow materials out of fungus, bacteria, and other organisms

• Students learn about the invisible living world around us

• Connections to global cultures that make, eat, and use materials that might seem “yucky”

• Understand global ecological issues

• Accessible now

Biohacking - Biology Making • Synthetic biology

• Design with biological materials, including manipulating genetics

• Students learn how biology is another tool for design.

• Connect to cutting edge real-world research and applications: new drugs, bacteria that detect chemicals, smart materials, programmable bio-organisms

• For brave pioneers

Fungus “monster” pots

Genetically modified bacteria glows in

presence of pollution

Starting Biomaking1. Mycelium fungus. The root structure of fungus can be

coaxed to grow into a wide variety of shapes and properties from flexible leather-like to styrofoam to wood-like and more.

2. Kombucha leather. Bacterial cellulose sheets of leather-like material that are grown by creating a culture of bacteria and yeast in kombucha (fermented tea).

3. Bioplastics. Easy to use materials like agar (red algae) or chitin (crustacean and insect shells) can mimic plastic material.

MYCELIUM - the root structure of fungus

Mushrooms are the fruiting body of fungus

youtu.be/jBXGFOk5_RsFungus as a Design Material

Mycelium-based products are available NOW. They can be grown into molded shapes of varying weight, strength, and flexibility

Coffee Grounds Hemp Bark

Mycelium “Monster” Planters - Forms designed in Tinkercad & 3D printed

used with permission - Corinne Takara

Mycelium Resources• Evocative - Design resources ecovativedesign.com. Buy the GIY

material grow.bio

• Growing mycelium - biofabforum.org/t/growing-materials-at-home-hard-mycelium-materials-manual/201

• Erik Nauman blogs about his classroom lessons learned making mycelium packaging - metatek.blogspot.com/2019/03/learning-with-mycelium-packaging-of.html

• Mycoworks - Fungus-based leather http://www.mycoworks.com

• Mycoworks video - youtu.be/jBXGFOk5_Rs

• Fantastic Fungi - a documentary about how mushrooms might save the planet fantasticfungi.com

• Radical Mycology -a book and website with essays about the importantance of fungi to the world and resources for growing radicalmycology.com

• Dezeen - Mycelium projects (wide variety of difficulty) dezeen.com/tag/mycelium-design/

• Midwest Grow Kits - buy pre-packaged spores and other mushroom growing products midwestgrowkits.com

Follow#biomaking #mycellium

@FantasticFungi

BACTERIAL CELLULOSE - the stuff that grows in Kombucha drinks

By Lukas Chin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39194866

SCOBY - symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast

By Hexatekin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74530889

Replace animal products

Suzanne Lee

Find at: http://bit.ly/FETCSM https://publiclab.org/system/images/photos/000/023/355/original/k_leather_HealthMLab.pdf

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab - healthymaterialslab.org

Corinne Takara’s BioBuddies Kombucha Leather Sun Dials/Pocketshttps://giybiobuddies.weebly.com/resources.html

2 - 3 weeks

Corinne Takara - used with permission

Bacterial Cellulose Resources• NEST Makerspace - nestmakerspace.weebly.com

• Corinne Takara - Winning BioDesign Challenge Project giybiobuddies.weebly.com

• BioDesign Competition - biodesignchallenge.org

• The Tech Interactive Museum BioDesign Studio - thetech.org/biodesignstudio

• Suzanne Lee TED Talk - How to Grow Your Own Clothes ted.com/talks/suzanne_lee_grow_your_own_clothes

• Public Lab - Kombucha Leather open resources and Q&A publiclab.org/wiki/kombucha-leather

• Parsons Healthy Materials Lab - Recipes, guides, research healthymaterialslab.org

• Materiom - recipes materiom.org

• Is Kombucha Alcoholic? - delishably.com/beverages/Is-Kombucha-Alcoholic

Follow

#biomaking #kombuchaleather

#biofabrication #veganleather

BIOPLASTICS

“The world has produced over nine billion tons of plastic since the 1950s. 165 million tons of it have trashed our ocean, with almost 9 million more tons entering the oceans each year. Since only about 9 percent of plastic gets recycled, much of the rest pollutes the environment or sits in landfills, where it can take up to 500 years to decompose while leaching toxic chemicals into the ground.”

The Truth About Bioplastics - Columbia University Earth Institute

Bioplastics Chitosan (shrimp shells) second most abundant organic material on Earth

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Water soluble 3D printed architectural panels made from shrimp shells with light sensitive organisms trapped in air bubblesNeri Oxman, MIT

notpla.com

LEGO now uses a polyethylene plastic made from ethanol produced from sustainably sourced sugar cane for the trees, leaves and other vegetation in kits. It hopes to produce all LEGO pieces from the bioplastic by 2030.

Best materials for classrooms for bioplastics investigations

• Agar (agar agar) - Red algae. Used in Japanese cooking, petri dishes.

• Chitosan - made from chitin (mainly shrimp & crab shells). Used as a natural bio-pesticide, water filter, bioadhesive, wound dressing.

• Gelatin plastic - easy to source and make (but is an animal product).

source: wikimedia

https://youtu.be/5M_eDLyfzp8

Corinne Takara - used with permission

BioPlastics Resources

• Notpla Food pods - notpla.com

• Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (Harvard) - wyss.harvard.edu

• Agar based packaging - materialdistrict.com/article/agar-plasticity-exciting-potential-seaweed-based-packaging/

• Multiple recipes for making your own algae based plastic making-biodiesel-books.com/algae-bioproducts/algae-bioplastics/make-bioplastics-from-algae/

• Materiom - Chitosan plastic - materiom.org/recipe/48. Gelatin plastic materiom.org/recipe/22

Follow#bioplastics

#breakfreefromplastic #sustainabledesign

https://biojamcamp.weebly.com/kit-contents.html

Bio Jam Camp

Makers UniteSolve problems with:

• Open source technology

• Open designs

• Open information channels

• Open invitation to all - newcomers and veterans alike

birds.cornell.edu/citizenscience

Opportunities for• Students as experts

• Collaboration with near or far away family members

• Participation in the conversations of a real community

• Parents as experts

Biomaking & BiohackingBiomaking - Making with Biology

• Grow materials out of fungus, bacteria, and other organisms

• Students learn about the invisible living world around us

• Connections to global cultures that make, eat, and use materials that might seem “yucky”

• Understand global ecological issues

• Accessible now

Biohacking - Biology Making • Synthetic biology

• Design with biological materials, including manipulating genetics

• Students learn how biology is another tool for design.

• Connect to cutting edge real-world research and applications: new drugs, bacteria that detect chemicals, smart materials, programmable bio-organisms

• For brave pioneers

Fungus “monster” pots

Genetically modified bacteria glows in

presence of pollution

Synthetic biology

• We can design building blocks of life, combine and remix them

• DNA can now be fabricated, genetics altered to create desired characteristics

• Don’t have to wait for evolution

• Design microbes that generate cheap alternative energy, attack tumors, deliver medicine, detect fertilizer runoff in drinking water, reveal the location of land mines…

Hackuarium

• wiki.hackuarium.ch/

• Resources, projects, open source activities, tool lists

BioBuilderTextbookOpen source curriculum

biobuilder.org

biobuilder.orgResources, lab kits, workshops

the-odin.com

Harvard BioAcademy - http://bio.academany.org

biomakerlab• Prototype stage: a low cost

mobile lab device used to genetically modify and fabricate (grow) bacterial or yeast cells

• 3 units of HS curriculum being developed with UPenn (PennDesign Emerging Design Practices, and Grad School of Education)

Justice Walker, grad student, teaching HS

This high school synthetic biology workshop used a microblogging site to host

discussions led by students of the social and scientific

impacts of synthetic biology.

Shaw, Mia, Justice Walker, and Yasmin Kafai. "Arguing about Synthetic Biology in 140 Characters or Less: Affordances of Microblogging for High School Students Discussions of Socioscientific Issues." (2019).

Outcomes• Extend projects over time, integrate with other ongoing

projects. Growing things takes time

• Teach students to slow down

• Improve observation skills

• Improve relationship with natural world - especially “icky” things

• STEAM - artistic use of materials, cultural connections, ecology, concern about environment

• Encourage young people that the problems of the world can be solved - by them

gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/

Barron, B., Martin, C. K., Takeuchi, L., & Fithian, R. (2009). Parents as learning partners in the development of technological fluency. Stanford University

How Parents Can Help1. Teacher. Teach children new concepts and answer questions.2. Learning Broker. Find or create opportunities for scientific play

and exploration. Set up connections that children can maintain themselves.

3. Project collaborator. Work together on projects of interest.4. Resource provider. Acquire books, tools, and materials.5. Employer. Ask a child to do a specific job, fix things, or make

useful things for the family.6. Learner. Listen when your child wants to explain things. Ask

for their explanations without jumping in with the “right” answer.7. Supporter. Offer encouragement and advice.

“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.”

Jane Addams - suffragette, social reformer, Nobel Peace Prize winner

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and

incorporated into our common life.”

Not about jobs.

and change the world.

About powerful opportunities to make sense of the world

Making in the K-3

Classroom

Alice Baggett

Why, How,

Exciting STEM Projects!

Y The Invent to Learn Guide to

and Wow!

Invent to Learn Guides

Books from CMK Press cmkpress.com

Thank you!Sylvia Martinez

sylvia@inventtolearn.com

sylviamartinez.com

Twitter: @smartinez

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