The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Listen to Heather Wolpert-Gawron Talk about Student Engagement Research Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. She is the author of Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement (Corwin/AMLE), which shares the results of a nationwide survey of 6th-12th graders and what engages them as learners.
Marketplace K-12
APRIL 27, 2016
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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Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
This post is part of a series in which we frame maker learning in terms of three core values — Agency , Authenticity , and Audience — as the key components to creating the highest quality making experiences for learning. One way to embed audience in maker learning projects is through the practice of human-centered design or design thinking.
The Principal of Change
JULY 17, 2017
He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. But no matter how diverse their industries will be, our students will all someday face a common reality. They will need to have a maker mindset.
Reading By Example
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Educators are always trying to stuff literacy into anything students are doing. Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). When it is not a building initiative, makerspaces find space in teacher’s classrooms under the guise of “Genius Hour”. The kids direct the learning.
Reading By Example
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Educators are always trying to stuff literacy into anything students are doing. Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). When it is not a building initiative, makerspaces find space in teacher’s classrooms under the guise of “Genius Hour”. The kids direct the learning.
The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 18, 2018
Web 3D: Students Using OpenSim Reflect on the Pressing Issues that We All Ask About Using Virtual Worlds. Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard. We hear a lot of talk now in Ed Tech circles about how we can get these students engaged and speak a language that they’re speaking.
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