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What Will It Take to Push the K-12 Maker Movement to Be More Inclusive?

Edsurge

Two times zones over, Knikole Taylor is a blended learning specialist in a Dallas, Texas suburban school district, where she supports Pre-K to 12th-grade teachers and students with all things digital teaching and learning. EdSurge: Knikole and Cicely, both of you endeavor to bring the maker movement into your practices.

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iPads in Kindergarten

The CoolCatTeacher

Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen on episode 512 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Karen Lirenman ( @ KLirenman ) and Kristen Wideen ( @ mrswideen ) have written the definitive book on using iPads in the elementary classroom, Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom.

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Get Qurious: Interactive and Digital Play Kit

iLearn Technology

The name is a bit of a misnomer, it definitely isn’t what you think of when you think of the Maker Movement. While it does blend technology and play, I wouldn’t call it a Maker Box. If you are looking for resources for your Maker Space, this isn’t it.

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Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade

The CoolCatTeacher

I think this whole passion project was definitely more about the process than the product. I think they are learning more along the way, and that’s what’s important. Name some ways your kids investigate their wonderings. I guess in some ways they’re wandering through their wonderings (laughs). Lindsey: Totally!

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

Blended Learning: Blended learning, or the use of technology alongside in-person instruction from a teacher, has been included in the NMC Horizons report before. If this more radical and child-centered definition of “personalized” is to be achieved, the role teachers play also need reimagining.

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What Would Dewey Do? Quotes…Ideas…Resources for Genuine Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER!

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

To push it further, one definition of disruption might be a bottom-up cause that substantially effects the ecology it is a part of (e.g., Maker Movement. The adoption of blended learning approaches through learning management systems. First, some quick clarification so that we have a common language.