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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

Edsurge

Dougherty was going to call the magazine “Hack,” but his children didn’t get the name. “I Instead, I decided to call the magazine Make:, which was a word that could be understood by anyone.”. With Make: magazine, I had an insight that adults needed to play and rediscover hobbies and passion projects,” Dougherty writes.

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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

Educator Innovator

That’s particularly true in the maker movement, a term coined by Make magazine for its audience of hobbyists and would-be inventors tinkering with robots and rockets and cloning figs in their basements. “We have free admission for people who live nearby, but what else can we do?”

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June 2 - Interview with Cal Newport on "Being a High School Superstar"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Thursday, June 2nd, for a live and interactive Future of Education with Cal Newport, author of How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out). His third book, How to Be a High School Superstar , was published in 2010.

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

Making for All: How to Build an Inclusive Makerspace ). In an analysis of every MAKE magazine cover since the first issue in 2005–36 in all–Buechley found that the photos portrayed a “very narrow definition” of Maker activities. Changing Perceptions about What Activities Are Considered Making.

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Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. In 2005 I did my first Inquiry Action Project taking a look at the roles of blogging in education.

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Five things American colleges need to do to help black and Latino students

The Hechinger Report

In 1992, Treisman received one of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants , recognizing his transformational work; in 1999, Black Issues in Higher Education magazine named him one of the 20th century’s outstanding leaders in higher education. Schools must also move away from forcing students of color into remedial programs.

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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His graduate and undergraduate courses help current and future educators understand how to use and take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity. In my spare time I have been, to name a few other pursuits, a magazine editor, a designer, real estate agent, writer, paralegal, painter, carpenter and a farmer.

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