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Launching a New Phase of Research for Agency by Design: Exploring Documentation and Assessment Strategies for the Maker-Centered Classroom

Educator Innovator

Project Zero’s Agency by Design team is developing documentation and assessment tools for maker-centered learning and “maker empowerment”, which they see as the key to ensuring that the maker movement secures a long-term place in education and pedagogy.

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Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade

The CoolCatTeacher

The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation. I have a picture of her to document that she was folding along as she was watching this video. Enter a great teacher today. Listen Now.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on Professional Learning Communities! I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. Hope to see you there!

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Grappling with Equity and Gaze: A Conversation with Shirin Vossoughi and Meg Escudé

Educator Innovator

As the maker movement continues to build in numbers, I’ve been particularly interested in the critical research that is scrutinizing the dynamics of interaction and learning within spaces of making. Other shifts took more time, and are part of what we are currently documenting.

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Making STEM Equitable With Beautiful Ideas, Affordable Projects and Serious Play

Edsurge

He studied educational psychology (and played Ultimate Frisbee) at Dartmouth and international education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Make Magazine —“A great magazine for documenting and chronicling today's world of Making.”. If you’re telling the kids exactly the way to do it, they’re not actually learning that much.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Kids taking care of plants can document, collecting data, aggregating data, they’re talking about it, discussing it. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning.