TEACHING WITH TINKERCAD
Can coding enhance human imagination? Guest experts will explore how students can make their computational thinking visible through analyzing, creating, and remixing interesting algorithm components using Tinkercad Codeblocks. We will also share accessible, playful projects just in time for Hour of Code that will empower students to see themselves in computer science.
Please join us for one hour of PD on Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 4pm Pacific Time.
Kellyanne Mahoney
Youth Program Specialist at Autodesk
Kellyanne Mahoney is a National Board Certified Teacher, former educator of 13 years with Boston Public Schools, and Youth Program Specialist at Autodesk. Kellyanne uses design thinking to bridge the problems faced in schools with the problem of creating equitable onramps into the innovation economy for students.
Matthew A. Dalton
Community Manager for K-12 Education at Autodesk
Matthew Dalton is the Community Manager for K-12 Education at Autodesk, and has his master's in Interactive Arts and Technology. He's taken an active role working within the STEAM and maker education communities since 2006. Prior to working at Autodesk, Matthew was a STEM Integrator and Makerspace Teacher at a private K-8 school in Portland.
Diane Brancazio
K-12 Maker Team Leader at MIT Edgerton
Diane is passionate about transforming education within existing traditional schools, helping the students and teachers of today. She supports teachers in becoming facilitators of student-centered, hands-on learning, and creating a school culture of experimentation, collaboration, self-direction, and joy in learning. At MIT, Diane develops and leads workshops for teachers integrating Maker/STEM into their regular curriculum and in using Makerspaces to engage and empower students. She maintains the Edgerton Center Student Project Lab / Makerspace for the MIT community and regularly supervises undergraduate students on projects that support the K-12 MakerLab initiative and personal research.
