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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? If you ignore content, then the assessment is never going get used in the classroom,” said Kim. But what else was she learning in this maker space? These aren’t just for the maker space.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. And before that, an advisor for Future Ready Schools and has moderated and presented numerous Future Ready’s Summits and Institutes.