1. Northeast Curriculum CoP Collective Impact & Fab Lab Curriculum
March 15 – Rhinelander Airport
9 am – 11 am
Prepared by: Sylvia Tiala

2. Agenda Updates from Don, Roger and Sylvia
Developing a common understanding of the problem we want to address and ties to collective impacts
Curriki structure and viability
Summer workshop participants and potential dates
Next steps using collective impact model?

3. Updates Roger Luce – grant proposal/funding Don Sidlowski – funding
Sylvia Tiala – workshop/curriki
Workshop July 10 – 14th
8am – 4 pm (lunch on own)
Monday & Tuesday planned
Curriki
Up and running

4. Workshop related questions:
Do we know who the participants may potentially be
(areas and grade level)
Will they have CAD/drawing experience?
Will they know how to run the Fab Lab tools?
What electronics infrastructure do you currently have:
Soldering irons
Electrical components

5. Curriki
How to use
Log on
Add a file
Identify role
Advantages – free, scalable, sustainable, accessible to all
Disadvantages – lose control (can be good & bad)
Part of Infrastructure (backbone) in collective impacts
Name and structure
Called
Editors
Housed – WEDC, Stout, Other

6. Collective Impact - 5 Conditions
Common Agenda – share a vision for change including a common understanding of the problem and a joint approach through agreed upon actions
Shared Measurement
Mutually Reinforcing Activities
Continuous Communication
Backbone Support – ongoing support, aligned activities building public will, mobilizing resources. Addressed in part by Curriki.

7. Working Toward a Common Agenda
Shared Vision
2 Questions:
What is the reason for a Fab Lab – individual, small group, large group
Next slide: Difference between a Fab Lab and a Tech Ed Lab

8. Tech Ed Lab or Fab Lab What’s the Difference?

9. What is the real problem statement?
How do Fab Lab help economic development in our community by
Developing an educated workforce
Developing 21st Century Skills
Developing critical thinking and problem solvers OR
What is the social problem we trying to solve with the Fab Lab
Community survival and Sustainability

10. Curriculum Workshop & Entrepreneurship Development
Is important in either case
Will enable teachers to develop skills necessary of engaged learning & teaching
Can support a larger conversation that establishes a cultural shift at either a school and community level

11. Shifting to Collective Impact – Community Saving Model
Falls in line with Gershenfeld’s stated goals for Fab Labs – Social Engineering
Create support for Fab Labs by creating a larger dialogue about the Fab Lab’s role in a community
Uses Fab Labs to create to move from a curriculum project to a cultural shift project
Identifies how Fab Labs can be utilized
Long term cultural change agents
Supporting other community initiatives
Not suitable to address certain aspects of a problem

12. Collective Impact Fab Lab & Curriculum’s Role Health
Workforce Develop-ment
Meals on Wheels
Local
Government
Performing Arts
Fab Lab & Curriculum’s Role
Education
Health
Environment

13. Impacts Collective Impact will require
Schools and local government to have community-wide conversations
Develop a strategic plan larger than the curriculum initiative
Take action as collective impacts are implemented
Engaging multiple audiences over a long – term
Curriculum initiatives will remain largely the same
Serve as professional development for engaged teaching and learning
With collective impacts – help teachers become cultural change agents
Specific references may change depending on context and focus