MAKING IN EDUCATION
Making in a Remote Setting
At the end of my completely remote student teaching semester, I was able to launch a project that involved online making. This project was for my Precalculus students to make good luck cards for the Algebra I students prior to their EOC exams. The students had to make their cards out of conic sections (circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas). Each of the students final product included a card design unique to them and advice to the Algebra I students for their exam!
The image to the left was one of the first things I made in the UTeach program and highlights how I have always thought of Education and Making intertwined. It's not necessarily the best painting, but it was supposed to be a watercolor of the Mandelbrot set. The set of numbers seems to be infinite and creates beautiful patterns as you continue to zoom in further on certain sections of it, as indicated in my painting. When I was taking a class that covered this concept, I was also taking my first UTeach class - Step 1. I made the connection after teaching a class of 3rd graders. Every student is unique in their own way. If you never focus in and learn about each student, you won't know about their intricacies as a student and human. This same concept is true in Making - students create their individual products based on their personal understanding of content and with their own creative design.
