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A quilt composed of the Turtle Art & Turtlestitch generated designs embroidered or produced by a vinyl cutter, beautifully assembled by the great Janine Maletsky<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly a month since 75 educators descended upon The Ancona School in Chicago for the wildly successful Invent To Learn Institute<\/a>. In order to maintain intellectual consistency, safety, variety, and personal choice, we embraced a “studio” model<\/a> in which cohorts of participants chose two interest areas to pursue. Making mathematics, art, machines, and video games were the studio options, but they all shared progressive education traditions, learning-by-doing, the power of computing, and constructionist ideas descendent from Seymour Papert<\/a>. Block-based programming environments, including Turtle Art<\/a>, Turtlestitch<\/a>, Snap<\/a>!<\/a>, and MakeCode<\/a> were used to bring projects to life in a variety of media and across intellectual domains. By design, this approach ensured fluency development and overlapping curricular expectations to be achieved regardless of the two studios chosen by each participant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Multiple Studios = Overlapping Powerful Ideas = Common Tools = Fluency
image by Sylvia Martinez<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It was particularly exciting to see the beautiful ways in which mathematics and code were turned into art and textiles, video games (real ones) that you can carry in your pocket on programmable “Gameboys,”<\/a> and dramatic robotics projects using the Hummingbird Bit Kit<\/a> and motion capture. I’ve led countless robotics and programming workshops across nearly four decades and educators in the recent Chicago institute did creative things that we had never seen before. That is not only a testament to our exquisite faculty, but to the emerging software and hardware tools we now have readily available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many thanks to the participants from across the US and Costa Rica, as well as our amazing faculty of Sylvia Martinez, Steve Dembo, Tracy Rudzitis, David Thornburg, Kate Tabor, and Yvonne Martinez. None of this would have been possible without the love and generosity of the Ancona School and its amazing educators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before too much time passes, here are resources, photo albums, and tweets to memorialize the recent institute. Hopefully, these materials will inspire continuous learning by those who were with us in Chicago or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Resources<\/a> for each of the five August 2021 Invent To Learn Institute – Chicago Studios<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Dembo’s Making Video Games participant projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n