MakerBots for Teachers

MakerBot Industries is giving away ten MakerBots to ten teachers at any educational level.  Let’s just consider this my entry:

  • Your name
    • Uh.  I’ll stick with “MakerBlock” for now.
  • Your school’s name
    • Sheesh.  These are getting harder.  Okay, how about “MakerBlock.com”?  No?  “MakerBlock U”?
  • The address you’d like the MakerBot sent to if you are chosen
    • Same place as my last order.  ;)
  • A paragraph describing how you would integrate the MakerBot into your curriculum. Include some description of the learning environment and what you teach
    • I would integrate a MakerBot into my curriculum by using it as a demonstration of iterative design, digital fabrication, digital design, invention, and innovation.  The learning environment is the whole freaking internet. 1  I teach digital plastic AWESOME.
  • A lesson plan that you will implement if you get a MakerBot
    1. Pssh.  Just one?  I’ll give you THREE.
    2. You’ve got a MakerBot, a laptop, unlimited plastic and electricity.  You are trapped in a mineshaft.  How do you get out?
    3. You’ve got a MakerBot, a laptop, unlimited plastic and electricity.  You are trapped in a mineshaft with a tiger.  How do you get out?
    4. You’ve got a MakerBot, a laptop, unlimited plastic and electricity.  You are trapped in a mineshaft with a tiger shark.  How do you get out?

  1. Actually, according to Feedburner and Google Analytics, the number is just a few hundred people a day []

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  2. > ◦A lesson plan…

    Step 1: use electricity to discourage animals from chewing on you
    Step 2: use laptop to contact Webca (of http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3285 fame) and ask him to please upload a design for a printable ladder or maybe an elevator
    Step 3: use laptop to order glue guns and LOTS of extra glue sticks delivered
    Step 4: use laptop to schedule regular pizza deliveries
    Step 5: while waiting, use electricity stick and pizza carrot to train tiger & tigershark in the art of glue gunning
    Step 6: supervise assembly of laddevator0
    Step 7: escape!

    Extra credit: a) use step 5 to also train tiger & shark in circus tricks, in case you lost your job while sitting around (aka: supervising) at the bottom of the mine shaft; b) start circus; c) profit! d) aquire additional trained shark to perform the “a shark jumping a shark” trick, which has never been done before; e) big profit!

    (submitted to Cliffs Notes, MBU division, for publishing)

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