Building Maker Pathways from K- 12 Community College Deborah Bird - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Building Maker Pathways from K- 12 – Community College Deborah Bird Technical Assistance Provider, CCC Maker Carol Pepper-Kittredge State-wide Project Lead, CCC Maker MakerEd Convening, San Jose, 19 October 2018

Goals for this session • Problem: K-12 to CC Pathways • Solution: Ecosystem Development

Let’s get organized… • Line Up in order of the grade you teach: K-16 • How many adjacent connections do you have?

Let’s get organized… Now, what color are you wearing today? • Organize yourself within our collective palette. • • How many adjacent connections do you have?

CCC Maker Initiative CCCCO Innovation-maker Grant • 3 years, 24 colleges, $17m • Create a network of college makerspaces that prepare • innovation-ready students Support non-traditional, under-represented students • to STEM/STEAM careers Embed innovation, entrepreneurship & making into • the curriculum Connect students to 800 paid Internships •

Why CCC Maker? Students need career resilience • Rapidly changing education outside traditional • structures Declining enrollments • Low completion and transfer rates • Lower levels of entrepreneurship • Employers demand highly skilled workers – now! •

24 CCC Maker Colleges 1. Allan Hancock College 18. Mt. San Antonio College 2. American River College 19. Mt. San Jacinto College 3. Butte College 20. Orange Coast College 4. Cabrillo College 21. Sacramento City College 5. Chaffey College 22. San Bernardino Valley College 6. City College of San Francisco 23. Sierra College 7. College of Alameda 24. Woodland Community College 8. College of San Mateo 9. College of the Canyons 10. Folsom Lake College 11. Foothill College 12. Glendale Community College 13. Golden West College 14. Hartnell College 15. Laney College 16. Moorpark College 17. Moreno Valley College 7

CCCCO Initiatives • Strong Workforce CC • K-12 - $150m • • Gig Economy • Guided Pathways • And whatever comes next…

Mis-perception • How many students go from your K-12 system to your local CC? • How many of your CC students come from within your district? • What are the benefits of your local CC?

Mis-communication • What are the obstacles to communication between your K-12 and CC? • What messages reach your students and faculty? • From K-12 • From CC

Mis-alignment • What are the challenges of K-12 to CC alignment? • K-12 • CC

What’s Missing? If we consider the 3 misses as symptoms, what is the real problem? … And how can we begin to work together in new and different ways to solve the real problem?

We believe that Makerspace Ecosystems • Can create a bridge between K-12 to Community College • Empower all stakeholders to self agency • Build individual and institutional resilience

Ecosystems in Action

What is an Ecosystem? CCC Maker Ecosystem Map – Starling Murmuration kumu.io

Ecosystems in Action Interdependent elements • Flow of energy • Self-organization • Emergent phenomena •

Makerspace Ecosystems • Interdependence - community of makers • Energy – resources, people, skills, tools • Self-organization – flexible systems • Emergence – innovation

Social Capital Ecosystem Interdependent Elements • Group Cohesion • Flow of Energy • Brokerage • Adaptive Space • Self-organization • Operational + Entrepreneurial • Emergence • Diffusion of Innovation • (Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting from Human Capital to Social Capital, Michael Arena, Ph.D., Mary Uhl-Bien, Ph.D., M.B.A., People + Strategy, Volume 39, Issue 2, Spring 2016)

Rules of Engagement

Simple Rules – Complex Systems Cohesion S e p a r a t i o n Alignment

CCC Maker Phases Create Community Cohesion Unique Makerspaces S e p a r a t i o n Leverage systems Alignment

Cohesion Create Community Principles Actions Establish Trust • Regional Meet-ups • Look Inward • Welcome Everyone • Pull in Community • Design Thinking Process: • How do we design a Create Shared Identity • • makerspace to affect Make Connections • learning outcomes? Facilitate Communications • • Ecosystem Mapping

Kumu Ecosystem Map Sierra College https://ku mu.io/CCC - Maker/sier ra-jt-ccd- makerspac e- ecosystem -map#ccc- starter- template/ prof- michael- halbern-ft- faculty

Central Coast Network Allan Hancock College https://kumu.io/CCC-Maker/allan-hancock-college-maker-ecosystem - ccc-starter-template

Lessons Learned • Community is a pre-condition for success • Liberate hierarchy through agency • Include all stakeholders as change agents • Create relationships through dialog and feedback • Encourage redundant connections • Embrace friction, manage conflict

Post-it activity: Who are your ecosystem partners?

Separation Empower Experimentation Principles Actions • Build Confidence • Initiate specialized, customized, individualized • Look Outward Makerspaces • Encourage Diversity • Find interdisciplinary • Embrace Risk + Failure opportunities • Branding – Outreach • Teacher/Learner relationships • Diversify Communications

Lessons Learned • Maximize autonomy, minimize control • Facilitate continuous feedback – data

Post-it activity: How can you use your makerspace to experiment within your ecosystem?

Alignment – Leverage Systems Principles Actions • Coordinate Across Network • Symposia • Share Principles Work Based Learning • • Common Language for Skills Curriculum • • Shared projects, courses • Makermatic Internships • Matching Funds • Publications • Funding Streams • Presentations • Open source ethos/IP • Maker Faire • Data-informed Decisions • Tell Your Story – so what • Integrated Curriculum

Central Coast Network Emergent Pathway https://kumu.io/CCC-Maker/allan-hancock-college-maker-ecosystem - ccc-starter-template

Folsom Lake College Emergent Pathway

Lessons Learned • Facilitate continuous feedback – data • Recognize and sustain innovation • We can’t build the pathway, we can only create the pre-conditions from which the pathway emerges

Post-it activity: What would you hope to emerge from your makerspace ecosystem? Share a photo of your ecosystem: @cccmakerspace, @makeredorg

Thank you for your participation For more info: cccmaker.com