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mshaughs.bsky.social
@mshaughs.bsky.social
TK-8 Educator & Learning Designer l currently 4th-8th Comp Sci & Making | @PBS Digital Innovator I @Raspberry_Pi Certified l Design Thinking l #CSed | #MakerEd | #cuemmunity | #edusky
Great discussions & questions about A.I. this week in my 4th-6th grade classes, as we practice prompting to generate images in @adobeexpress.adobe.com!

Love Ss thoughtful questions about the ethics, safety & environmental impacts of creating and using artificial intelligence tools.
#CSed #EDUsky
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“Ms. H! I’m just finishing drawing my boss character!” Ss in grade 4-5 working this week on their @raspberrypiorg.bsky.social “Ghostbusters” video game in Scratch— still a favorite! Such great lessons in game design, story elements, sequencing, repetition, variables, digital art and more. #CSed
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Impressed everyday with how creative my Ss are! 6th grade has been using Tinkercad Codeblocks to design custom “buttons” to practice coordinates & repetition. They’re turning out even better than I could have imagined!
#MakerEd #CSed #CSforAll #EDUsky
September 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Watched a tutorial during my morning prep, and had my 1st @figma.com Design created & laser cut (earrings maybe?) by lunch. So fun!!
So I decided to teach my #MakerEd 7th & 8th Ss their first lesson in the afternoon. Can’t wait to see what they create!
September 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Teaching #CSed to some of the younger grades again this year, so of course had to launch with our @hellorubyworld “What Is A Computer” unit! 2nd graders had a blast learning about hardware by building model computers. #CSforAll #eduSky
September 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Middle school maker class is rocking their first project of the trimester— hand sewn softies. Learning the running stitch & blanket stitch = excellent fine motor skill work!
#MakerEd
September 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Started with a 1st grade class today in #MakerEd & just loved the outcome of our first project. Ss built their names with a small set of random Legos and they were so creative, collaborative & encouraging in the process!
#EDUsky
September 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Reposted
When we think of “learning outcomes” as the purpose of education and stop there, we miss out on the ultimate aim of school—which is to use the learning to build the person.

Read the conversation between neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and @stephenmerrill.bsky.social for more.

#EduSky
Projects, Purpose, and the Teenage Mind
Neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on why adolescent students search for deeper meaning—and what that tells us about designing schools that engage teens.
edut.to
September 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Fantastic first five days of school in the Fab Lab! From Lego build challenges to an Extraordinaires design thinking sprint to our first laser cutter projects, my 2nd-6th grade Ss are already showing so much creativity!
#EduSky #MakerEd
August 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s so BEAUTIFUL!! San Jose finally got its first MicroCenter & I’m in maker heaven!!
🤩 🤩 🤩 #MakerEd #CSed
August 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Always enjoy learning new Maker Lab skills with Jesus Huerta! Great session this morning at Santa Cruz County COE #B2SReboot Excited to add some new projects & plans into my classes this school year 💡
#MakerEd #CUEmmunity
July 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New blog post—> this yr, my 7th graders integrated A.I. into their final robotics projects & it ended up being a great maker-based deep dive into effective prompt writing, how models are trained, data privacy and more!
#CSed #MakerEd #EDUsky

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Maker Ed Exploration of A.I.
For the last several years I've wrapped up my 7th grade CS classes with a big robotics build. Students design, construct and code their own ...
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July 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I 💙 this so much! For their final, some of my gr8 Ss wanted to create an animatronic hand to signASL w/@raspberrypi Pico & @pimoroni Inventor. It took hours of classes, lunch breaks & drop-ins just to build & code a few fingers to move. So proud of their hard work & dedication! #CSed #MakerEd
June 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My 7th grade Comp Sci Ss are getting ready to present their final @raspberrypi.com Robotics Design projects this week. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the cool features this year’s class added to the traditional “robotic buggy” build…
#CSforAll #CSed #MakerEd
May 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
My annual 7th grade robotics exhibition is just a couple weeks away, and Ss are hustling to put the final pieces together on their bots. This yr’s classes are trying out some REALLY neat ideas! So proud of their creativity & perseverance!
#CSed #MakerEd #EDUsky
@raspberrypiorg.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Testing out my new Toybox 3D printer today. So far, so easy to use!
May 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
My Ss have some fun ideas for their end of yr @raspberrypi.com robotics projects & I’m having to learn some new skills alongside them to make it happen. This week— speech recognition. Took a few days of failures but finally got something working! 🎉 👏🏻
#MakerEd #CSed
May 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A3: I’m definitely concerned about creator’s rights when it comes to the ways AI is training using artists’ work… I have Ss who are really worried about the ethics of AI & creating work based on other people’s work #EduSkyAI
Q3: What challenges or ethical considerations have you encountered when integrating AI into creative processes? #EduSkyAI
April 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
A1: just started trying out AI for learning new coding skills w/my Ss. Hoping it helps us do more in a short amount of class time, & let us focus more on electronics and project design & build #EduSkyAI
Q1: How has AI supported your own creativity? #EduSkyAI
April 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Ss using homemade soil sensors + @raspberrypi.com + @pimoroni.com Explorer Hat this week to test for moisture in soil. Today we’ll graph our data w/pygal. Learning lots about electricity & data collection! #CSed #MakerEd

Huge to thx to Chris Regini for sharing his lesson all those yrs ago 😁
April 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
First post in while--> "Math in the Making: Coding Sewable Buttons"

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Trying to get blogging again, and I've been especially interested in helping students learn & apply math in context. This unit was a really fun way of doing that.
Math in the Making: Coding Buttons in Tinkercad Codeblocks
At Fall CUE 2022, I attended a session on Maker Ed, led by Stephen Callahan, in the  San Joaquin County Office of Education Fab Lab . One of...
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April 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The art T and I decided to collaborate on a garden art project w/our 4th grade classes. My class’s giant pinwheels went in today and I am loving the outcome. They look especially striking when spinning!
#MakerEd
April 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
A1: My middle school comp sci Ss keep digital portfolios in Seesaw, where they share their work & reflect on their learning. Below is one of my favorite reflections so far this year…
#EduInFocus @edutopia.org
April 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
5th grade has been creating “virtual pets/plants” in Scratch and they are looking SOOO cute!

Ss practicing everything from animation & design skills to variables, events & broadcasts. WOW these kids are creative!

Lesson by projects.raspberrypi.org

#CSed #MakerEd
April 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
When one of your middle school CS Ss turns their school Walk-a-Thon shirt into a Raspberry Pi pun 🙃
@raspberrypiorg.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM