The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 26, 2020
She is an international speaker on the libraries and the Maker Movement, and has presented at conferences including ISTE, AASL, ALA, and NYSCATE. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. during the National Week of Making.
My Paperless Classroom
APRIL 23, 2014
In this cartoon there was problem solving, cooperation, innovation and a strong m"maker" ethic. As a teacher working with elementary kids I find myself looking for messages I approve of in media for kids.
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Marketplace K-12
APRIL 27, 2016
Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot–or as under-researched–as “Maker” education. The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
The answer, in part, lies in the so-called maker movement, a trend studded by hobbyists, inventors, students and even entrepreneurs who creates products or gadgets for educational or industrial purposes. In a report that analyzed the state of the maker movement in 40 U.S.
User Generated Education
MAY 20, 2015
The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. The two I discuss in this post are: Maker movement initiatives are often driven by more affluent white males.
Edsurge
JUNE 14, 2018
When they reviewed their work, the authors discovered a startling trend: “Instructors consistently refer to their male students using maker terminology—‘geek,’ ‘builders,’—and then overwhelmingly referred to their female students as ‘girls’, as a gender-specific identity,” says Kim in an interview with EdSurge.
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. An arduino is commonly referred to as a microcontroller that can be used for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control the physical world. I commonly refer to it as “Legos on steroids.”
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