Every student can be an inventor 
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 4, 2015
This phenomenon trickled into schools as the Maker Movement became more popular and natural connections to learning became quite evident. To begin to understand the educational value of making we must look at the roots of this movement. Making is guided by a student’s natural inquiry and self-directed learning.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 21, 2017
Second, I’ll give you an example from my classroom happening right now. I hope this gives you an overview of how students can make choices and pursue their passions in school. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Maker Movement.
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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
DECEMBER 4, 2018
I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! The vision of CODE is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming. FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference?
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
JULY 18, 2016
Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. You will discover around one hundred resources in this series along with some great ideas for finding student success. I am now booked through November.
Edsurge
MAY 1, 2017
Hannah built a Whack-a-Mole game—and learned the invaluable skill of troubleshooting, the importance of asking for help, and just how far persistence, curiosity and creativity can take you. Making can also help you understand a lot of things about the world around you. EdSurge: How did you become a maker? Alexis Lewis —inventor.
eSchool News
MARCH 14, 2016
How can schools prepare students to be the designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs our economy needs for future success? We want to unleash the inventor in everyone,” Bdeir said. Every week was a new project, a new learning challenge. In another challenge, students invent a self-driven vehicle.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 7, 2017
But then his teacher added, “He’s always tinkering with the computers in our classroom.”. Economically disadvantaged students tend to lack exposure to experiences that nudge them toward building future stories as say, a software engineer or an inventor of the next biomedical innovation.
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