{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"EdTech Adventures","title":"Professional Play with Matt Barinholtz","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1904,"description":"Why is it important to make time for play, both with students and with educators? Matt Barinholtz, Founder & CEO of FutureMakers, is passionate about creating playful hands-on learning and encourages educators to find ways to play!\n\nFutureMakers' mission is to spark playful hands-on learning focused on educators confidently integrating engineering, tinkering, making, and play in their lessons. In this conversation, Matt describes how he was inspired to found FutureMakers and recognizes that tangible creative experiences, project-based learning, and play are essential tools for learning.\n\nThroughout this conversation, Matt shares his thoughts on effective professional learning, active listening, confronting yourself when you say “I never will…”, and learning to let learners lead. He encourages educators to spend time thinking about why am I doing this in the first place? What’s the joy? And where’s the play that got me involved? When reflecting on the future of EdTech, Matt discusses the role of AI and stresses the importance of critical thinking and focusing on how we’re solving critical thinking problems and helping learners develop their own solutions that work and feel the most natural and human.\n\n“How are we applying our brilliance and our genius and our joy? Make the experience happen. Make it tangible. Make it project-based. They will always remember it. You’re going to be the person that allows them to explore and tinker and play and they’ll remember you and they’ll first and most importantly remember their joy.” - Matt Barinholtz\n\nAbout Our Guest\nMatt is a maker-educator who builds experiences that connect young makers, educators and youth workers to traditional skills, creative technologies, and serious play. For the past 20 years, Matt has sparked playful hands-on learning in community and educational settings, serving employment readiness initiatives and initiating groundbreaking juvenile justice work. In 2012, Matt founded FutureMakers to increase...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mGOSCX_j8492TA_rTpFenIksm3yagj6pDKsy0gpjCbs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMxNDEyLzE2NTQx/MDYxMjUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}