Online/Virtual Event
Thursday, March 21st from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Let’s simulate summer break with creative learning! In this workshop, we’ll explore the mind-body connection and create a wearable (that may not yet exist) to express, communicate, and track your summer aspirations. You’ll learn about the creative learning spiral, and how to celebrate your patrons’ process AND product. In creative learning, there’s no “one right way.” Just like how we’ll encourage you to explore and tinker, we hope that you’ll do the same for your patrons.
Participants will:
- Experience a hands-on creative learning activity that emphasizes the mind-body connection
- Explore the creative learning spiral, and recognize yourself and your patrons in it
- Learn strategies for celebrating the process of creative learning, not just the product
This workshop comes with a mini activity kit that gets shipped to you via snail mail, so we’ll need your mailing address. Space is limited to 20. If you register but then know you will no longer be able to attend, please let us know by February 22nd so we may open your spot to someone on the waitlist.
This is the second of two workshops on creative learning with the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) at the MIT Media Lab. You can attend this workshop without attending the first.
About our presenter:
Ada Ren-Mitchell loves playful learning. As the Learning Programs Designer of the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) at the MIT Media Lab, she can't believe her job involves hanging out with amazing librarians around the world! Over the past 13 years, she juggled professional development in STEM education, STEM education research, multi-modal gesture research, and web and graphic design. Ada likes to wrap her brain around complex systems, and tries to make sense of it all through community co-creation, visual information design, and prudent science communication. In her spare time, she enjoys sending snail mail, carving stamps, sewing clothes, and crafting interactive finger-foods for her friends and family.