Unleashing the Future

How Entrepreneurship and the Maker Movement can Transform K12

Classrooms

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What makes entrepreneurs

entrepreneurial?

Myth of Entrepreneurship

1.Visionary, risk-taker searches for “new” opportunity

2.Light bulb goes on

3.Writes business plan

4.Raises funds-especially from VC’s

5.Hires crack team

6.Builds product

7.Orchestrates big launch

8.Hockey stick growth

9.Exits

10.Sails around the world

But what really happens?

Saras Sarasvathy, U.Va. Darden School of Business

effectuation.org theleanstartup.com

Causal vs Effectual Thinking

Causal Thinking = Managerial Thinking

Choosing the best means to meet a goal

Effectual Thinking = Entrepreneurial Thinking

Imagining possible new ends using a given set of means

Two Approaches to Cooking

Causal Effectual

“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.”-Seymour Papert

How might we create the conditions for invention?

Maker-Centered Learning

“The Maker approach encourages people to understand how things work, to experiment, invent and redesign things through multiple iterations, to democratize and understand processes of engineering, science, and innovation, and to commercialize new products....” -National Science Foundation

Making democratizes creative production...

"While innovation and STEM tend to be the buzzwords associated with the maker movement, when you talk with maker educators working in schools and maker spaces, the real news is what kids are learning about collaboration, about community, about complexity, and about themselves." - Shari Tishman, Harvard University

Learning entrepreneurship, not teaching it...

Supporting Youth Entrepreneurs:

Formal: dedicated courses or programs within the context of school (specific or integrated)

Semi-formal: specialized programs or events on the periphery of school (events, workshops)

Informal: Resources - space, people, tools/materials - openly available to students (makerspaces, mentors)

Embedded into courses...

“Start Something” events...

http://youtube.com/v/I9661fLZoXk

ShareBat

Not just for students….

http://youtube.com/v/05B0Uck-5Ec

A business is only one manifestation of entrepreneurship...

Design+Make+Launch

http://youtube.com/v/7XrywvTvnbY

Entrepreneurship education is really about empowering the learner.

Julian, World Maker Faire 9/30/16

Entrepreneurship as a Life Skill

It all begins with one simple question....

What do you want to make?

Connect

make.k12albemarle.org

reinventedlab.org

Blogs: Venture Pragmatist and Medium

Email: chadsratliff at gmail