“School X Museum Learning” Lecture Series 
Overseas Perspectives
Lecture 3: 'Make 4 Fun’ Maker Experimental Studio: School-initiated Cross-disciplinary Museum Programmes

Speaker: Yan Wan-jyun (Teacher of Arts and Life, New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School)
Date: 1.12.2022 (THU)
Time: 15:00-16:30 (HKT)
Medium: Putonghua
Platform: ZOOM webinar

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Abstract

Join us to learn how digital making, emerging technologies and design thinking have connected museums’ collections and exhibitions to students’ subject knowledge at the 'Make 4 Fun’ Maker Experimental Studio of the New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School!

The ’Make 4 Fun’ Studio is a learning base specializing in digital making and emerging technologies. It boasts a diverse teacher community from multidisciplinary backgrounds. For more than eight years, it has worked with museums such as the Palace Museum and the Kinmen Museum of History and Folklore to develop school-museum collaborative programmes,  thematic student camps and teacher co-creation workshops. Through co-create experiences guided by design thinking, teachers identify and address pain points in leveraging museum resources, and systematically re-interpret museum knowledge for their school-based needs. Join us at this lecture to learn about illuminating case studies of museum learning and creating by teachers and students!

Speaker Bio

Ms. Yan Wan-jyun is a teacher of Arts and Life at the New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School since 2009. She is a keen advocate of creative cross-disciplinary  learning approaches such as Maker, STEAM and PBL. She actively connects museums, enterprises and international resources to bring about changes in the education system. Yan founded the ‘Make 4 Fun’ Maker Experimental Studio at the New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School and the Emerging Technologies Education Center (Ecity) of the Education Ministry in 2013 and 2022 respectively. Rooted in digital making, emerging technologies and design thinking, the organizations equip high school students with people-oriented design thinking skills and unleash their creativity and imagination.  Remarkable output has been achieved in areas such as value-adding utilization of museum collections. A believer of the virtuous cycle of sharing and spreading teaching experiences, she organizes teacher training workshops and museum resources utilization co-creation camps all across Taiwan to connect multidisciplinary teaching talents who share the same vision.

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