App Maker Faire

App Maker Faire

Grant:
Instructional Development Fund (IDF)
Academic Year:
2014 - 2015 (June 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015)
Funding Requested:
$399.00
Project Dates:
-
Applicant(s):
elikeren
Overview of the Project:
In order to prepare preservice teachers to help K-12 students develop grit and 21st century skills such as innovation, collaboration and problem-solving, they will be participating in an app-maker faire in their EDUC 444 course during Spring/Summer 2015. They will be asked to identify a problem in K-12 teaching and learning, and then develop an app to help solve that problem. The app will be published and they will be able to use the app with K-12 students and/or teachers. The funds from this grant will cover the costs of the needed software for developing the apps and publishing them to iTunes and Google Play Stores.
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Project Objectives:

Students will be able to learn about Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Students will participate in PBL Students will research a problem in teaching and learning Students will develop a prototype of an app that may help to solve the problem Students will present their prototype in an app-maker-faire

Project Achievements:

We were able to hold two App Maker-Faires during the 2015 academic year. 68 students were able to participate in the Maker-Faires and we hope to hold another in Spring 2017. These Maker-Faires allowed the students at the School of Education to investigate a problem in teaching and learning, and develop a prototype app that would help to solve the problem. The students were able to use Problem-Based Learning to explore and develop their app. The students now have the skills to not only use PBL to develop apps but they can replicate this project in their own teaching. They also learned to become creators rather than consumers of knowledge. We now have the tools (app-making software) to continue to replicate this project and scale it up thanks to the CRLT grant. I also presented this project at two state-wide conferences.

Continuation:
YES! Now that we have purchased the software to develop apps, we are able to continue this project each Spring.
Dissemination:
Not only do the teaching interns present their prototypes via a website (when ready), I also presented about this project and some of the apps at two state-wide education conferences in 2015.
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