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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

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. Sheridan, George Mason University, in the Harvard Educational Review, Winter 2014.).

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Infographic: How the maker movement is growing by leaps and bounds

eSchool News

Facts about the rise of the maker movement. Electronics maker company littleBits has created a new infographic, in collaboration with Getting Smart, designed to show the rise of the maker movement and its explosive growth, which has become a worldwide phenomenon. click for full size.

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2014, Mitch co-founded Edchat Interactive with Tom Whitby and Steve Anderson. Mitch helps organizations succeed in the education market. Additionally, Mitch co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, to help organizations reach teachers and students in the US.

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Using Games to Help Reluctant Readers and Writers (and More)

The CoolCatTeacher

Her initial contact with Verena Roberts and Vicki Davis in 2014 helped her to futher her understanding of game-based learning and open education. Lee Graham teaches courses in educational technology and pre-service teaching at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta.

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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. ISTE Board of Directors PK-12 Representative 2010-2014 - Creator of Content. Now.having said that. Meme & Trope Archivist ?Geek.

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Makerspaces and Opportunities for Learning Literacy

Reading By Example

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). The maker movement in education. References.

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Makerspaces and Opportunities for Learning Literacy

Reading By Example

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). The maker movement in education. References.