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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

To ensure access to high-quality educational experiences at the high school level, students enrolled in Grades 9-12 were provided tuition to attend one of two neighboring high schools. For Duquesne Elementary educators and students, maker and STEAM learning sit at the intersection of core content and real-world skill acquisition.

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot–or as under-researched–as “Makereducation. There is growing interest in whether Maker education can help boost student learning outcomes, including test scores. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R.

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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessing making and tinkering. The risks of using reflection as your only tool for assessing making. Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Sylvia also headed product development for consumer software, video games, and educational games at several software publishing companies. You have one week to enter, and then we draw!

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

While these trends may not apply to every educational setting, this doesn’t mean they couldn’t. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Top 4 microtrends in e-learning. They do have the potential to become megatrends with time.

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FETC Future of Educational Technology… Orlando Florida… Please Join Me!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I am excited about learning with thousands of other educators at this amazing conference. Inclusion & Special Education. The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. Together we will examine these educational movements through ideas from Dewey.

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‘Learn’-Launching the 2017 Edtech Conversation With Cautious Optimism

Edsurge

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. That’s why educators need to pay attention to cultivating skills in students that robots don't do efficiently. “We

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Part 2: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Technology

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to number two in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! My calendar is filling.

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