ICREATE Lab Exploration

 I CREATE Lab Exploration

Standard 1: "Empowered Learner. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies."

Standard 5: Computational Thinker. Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

Introduction

During today's ICREATE Lab Exploration, we were able to look at a ton of incredible machines that create various things that can be used in a classroom. A few of the machines that were presented to us were an embroidery machine, sewing machine, a cricut, large format printer/vinyl cutter, 3d printer, laser cutter/engraver and many more. I personally was very interested with the 3d printer, embroidery machine, and the vinyl cutter.





Embroidery Station Exploration 

While we were exploring the objects in the ICREATE lab, a small group of us experienced technical difficulties with the embroidery machine with your ICREATE guide and had to problem solve together how to fix it. At first, we thought that it may have been that the thread was too tight, so we checked both the top and the bottom threads to make sure that was the problem. It turns out it was not the problem after we adjusted the thread a couple more times. We came to a conclusion of trying to see if the thread was threaded properly through each hole the machine has. After rechecking, we saw that the thread was not in one of the holes properly and had to rethread it. We finally got the embroidery machine to work and our end result was an embroidered pig. I will provide a video with the machine having technical difficulties.



CT Standard Applied to Embroidery Station Exploration

Experiencing this technical difficulty relates to this standard because we as a group had to come together to develop and deploy a problem to solve why the embroidery machine was stopping every three seconds. We had to keep testing the machine to see if our problem solving idea worked until we finally got our answer. 

Incorporating Concepts within the Classroom

I find incorporating these concepts from The Maker Movement article is important to have to be successful in a makerspace classroom. For example, problem solving and testing solutions as we experience it is a great way for students to learn how to problem solve and how to test solutions until you become successful. Not only will this be helpful in the Makerspace, but as well as real life problems. I plan to use all of these concepts into my future classroom. In IDET 4300, we blog our experience and choose a CT standard that fits our situation best. Having young aged students write down their experiences on these standards may be a little challenging. I feel as to make it easier on students, I will go over one standard with the students each time we are in the MakerSpace classroom and have a class discussion on how we meet that standard and write it down as a class. I will also explain how these standards are important and how they can be used in real life scenarios.  





Comments

  1. IDET 4300 Caitlyn’s BlogSeptember 25, 2021 at 8:21 PM

    Hi Jasmine,

    The incorporation of the pictures and the videos helped me visualize what you have experienced in the lab. Your group's problem solving adventure seemed very educating. I have no clue on how those machines work, so I would I have been lost. Your experience is great learning and teaching point for your future students. Great job!

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  2. Courtani E.November 8, 2021 at 6:34 PM

    Hi Jasmine! I really enjoyed reading your blog! all of the pictures really made it easy to follow along! Your standard fits nicely with the activity, I used Standard 1: "Empowered Learner. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies."

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  3. Ashlynn ColsonNovember 9, 2021 at 9:42 PM

    Hi Jasmine! I really enjoy your blog and also used standard 5 for my blog. I think you could also use standard 1: "Empowered Learner" for this blog as well.

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