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What We Learn from Making

Digital Promise

What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? But as a new report from Project Zero ’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. Day 2 was they had to document it. I’ve seen people using the solar system as part of clips where they’re, you know, giving reports on planets. It allows you to take photos and videos of what you are seeing. That was Part 1.

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This Amazing South Bronx School Grows 50,000 Pounds of Vegetables a Year

The CoolCatTeacher

Kids taking care of plants can document, collecting data, aggregating data, they’re talking about it, discussing it. And we grew tremendous volumes of food, so deciding what we’re going to do with that food, what we’re going to do with the profits that we sell.