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Maker Faire Detroit 2010
Hands-on Minds
- Hands-on Minds
Anderson Theater Saturday 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Elliot Washor is a co-founder of Big Picture Learning who organized during Maker Faire a seminar for educators and students to look into hand-mind learning and its role in schools. They will be looking into connecting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), CTE (career and technical education), and the arts by using makers' workshops, sheds, garages, and labs in the school. Elliot will discuss ideas generated by the symposium. He will be joined by Dr. Frank R. Wilson, a member of Big Picture's Board of Directors who has been working to give high school students the opportunity to work with scientists and engineers creating advanced prosthetics for amputees. Charlie Mojkowski, a Senior Consultant with Big Picture Learning, will facilitate the conversation.
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About the Maker(s)
Charles Mojkowski
Charles Mojkowski is a Senior Associate at Big Picture Learning, where he works with organizations throughout the country wishing to use Big Picture’s design to influence their own school, program, and curriculum designs.
Elliot Washor
Elliot Washor, Ed.D, co-founder of Big Picture Learning, a global leader in education innovation with more than 80 successful schools throughout America, the European Union, New Zealand, and Australia.
Frank R. Wilson
Frank R. Wilson, MD, who was Clinical Professor of Neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine, has a career-long interest in human hand skill. His book, The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
