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

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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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Documenting Learning

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I approach experiential learning from a cycle of learning which includes reflecting on and analysis of things done through learning-by-doing. I am excited about the current trend towards maker education but I believe it needs to embrace a full cycle of learning including engaging in reflection. doing a photo essay which includes.

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The Myth of Neutral Makerspaces

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Per the study, student participation rates change dramatically from K-8 (where there’s nearly equal participation by gender) to high school (where male students outnumber females by a factor of three). K-12 makerspaces lack inclusive culture, Drexel study says ).

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Maker Education and Social-Emotional Development

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For many, design thinking goes hand-in-hand with the maker movement and maker education. Not all making is about attempting to design solutions to community and world problems, but building in that aspect has the potential to create more meaningful maker projects. Durlak, Weissberg et al.’s

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Walden University researcher, Rose Arnell, is looking for survey participants : I am a doctoral student at Walden University and am conducting a study called, Teacher Beliefs on Self-Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice. Please fill out this invitation to be considered for this study.