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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

Finally, in 2018, a Coding and Robotics Lab (CAB Lab) was born out of a former art room to better serve as a space where students learn about programming and circuitry while experimenting with robotics. Innovative learning spaces and equipment do not necessarily make an impactful maker learning program.

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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. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.

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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. You have one week to enter, and then we draw! Click here. . In today’s show, we’ll discuss: How to make time for tinkering. Three of the biggest mistakes teachers make when tinkering.

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

As career opportunities in traditional professions and large public and private organizations, decline — think automation, AI and robots — young people need to assimilate skills that enable them to make the most of the opportunities and challenges in their own economic environments. Microlearning.

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

Edsurge

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NASA Robotic Lesson Plans – Some wonderful lesson ideas that cover all grade levels to engage students. Sphero – Not only is this robotic ball a lot of fun, be sure to check out the included SPK Lab. The SPRK Lightning Lab app is your student’s hub to create, contribute and learn with Sphero Robots.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject.