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Leading the Maker Movement

A Principal's Reflections

This phenomenon trickled into schools as the Maker Movement became more popular and natural connections to learning became quite evident. To begin to understand the educational value of making we must look at the roots of this movement. Making is guided by a student’s natural inquiry and self-directed learning.

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The Maker Movement In Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are his thoughts on ‘the Maker Movement': With so much of the emphasis in today’s education world focusing on the need for education reform, it can be easy to forget just what this means. They’re all about inspiring creative ideas in students and having them learn how to execute them.

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The New Self Published Book That I Co-Authored That is Trending on Amazon

The CoolCatTeacher

About the book and how (and why) we published it From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. It has been exciting to release my first co-authored book that is self-published on Amazon this weekend. Why Write a Book? How We Published the Book. Why Did We Self Publish?

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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. ” 2.

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Book Creator for Chrome: Product Review, Tips and Tricks for Teachers

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsored by Book Creator, All Opinions My Own From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Book Creator has long been a favorite app on the iPad, and now it’s available for Google Chrome. Post sponsored by Book Creator. Right now, my students are creating books about their heroes.

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Advice from a Filmmaking Pro About How to Help Kids Make Movies

The CoolCatTeacher

Then, he took the time to condense down some of the biggest takeaways from the book for those making film in the K12 classroom in this podcast. Steve Hullfish – Bio as Submitted Steve Hullfish has written six books on post-production, editing and color correction) and have two more in production.

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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

Edsurge

But it nonetheless embodies what Dale Dougherty, the “father” of the movement, sees as literally the “moral imperative” of the maker movement: “to use our creative freedom to make the future better, to be hands-on in making change, and to get everyone participating fully in that future.”. It took me only a moment to say ‘Yes!’”