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How Maker Mindsets Can Be An Easy Fit For Rural Schools

MindShift

The maker movement has expanded greatly in recent years and much of the attention has focused on cities with high population density and large well-funded school districts. But he wanted his students to have more access to sensors, so he set about making his own. Bowers sees that in his hydroponics class. TAKE IT SLOW.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

If this is how the makerspace is set up in your school, then your kids may not have access to the resources, materials, and tools when they need them, especially for STEM or STEAM. This is why we decided to create a planning tool for makerspaces in the classroom for you using the Design Thinking Process and Universal Design for Learning®.

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

techlearning

If perhaps you were to approach this same list of categories with topics like Virtual and Augmented Reality, the Maker Movement, Coding, and/or Robotics… you may find yourself in a different adopter category. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.015 Online Events Start Today

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Crow, Associate Professor of School Library Science Making electronic collections more visible and accessible for library patrons - Joseph Dudley, Campus Librarian Professional searchers today: Leadership roles in design & information experience - Virginia M. Uganda, and India - Dr. Sherry R. Scott Jones, MLIS.

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The Stories We've Been Told (in 2017) about Education Technology

Hack Education

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. The Maker Movement. No doubt, some people hope these stories fuel markets and lead to trends.). Data vs Privacy.