[Free] Makey Makey : Beyond The Banana

Invention Literacy and Maker Education – Free Course

Added on August 12, 2021 Teaching & Academics 1 min read

What you’ll learn

Explore and learn all about Makey Makey, Circuits, and Physical Computing.
Learn about design thinking and design challenges and get your students creating inventions to help others.
These foundational building blocks will get you inventing on your own. When faced with a design challenge in the future, you’ll be able to invent on the fly and more importantly, so will your students.
You will be able to build simple and effective programs using the free Scratch coding platform from MIT.
You will learn the iterative design process through hands on making activities.

Requirements

You will need to have a Makey Makey and a Scratch account.

Description

We consider this course to be the foundational building blocks you’ll need to get you inventing on your own. When faced with a design challenge in the future, youll be able to invent on the fly and more importantly, so will your students.

You will explore Makey Makey and its possibilities.
You will be able to imagine and build creative circuits.
You will be able to build simple and effective programs using the free Scratch coding program from MIT that will support a Makey Makey design challenge.
You will build and create projects to learn the iterative design process through a hands on making (and unmaking) process.