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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

What it is: Get Qurious is a company who’s goal is to keep kids curious, creative, and expressive by combining technology and play. The Get Qurious Maker Box is packed full of interactive play opportunities. The name is a bit of a misnomer, it definitely isn’t what you think of when you think of the Maker Movement.

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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade

The CoolCatTeacher

Each nominee and nominator will be entered to win a classroom technology package. 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. Nominate your favorite educator at coolcatteacher.com/greatness.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have often wondered what John Dewey would do in today’s educational setting with our vast amount of knowledge from research and our rapid growth of technology. Making Learning Happen…New York PBL – Join me in Syracuse, New York in August for some exciting PBL workshops. Block B – Blended in Technology.

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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., Planned obsolescence of mobile technology. Change in cultural perception of identity–gender, technology, science, faith, sexuality, etc. Maker Movement.