Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2016

Labs Lost to Educational Rigidity. The niche has grown in response to the needs of the laboratory industry. While our country aims to meet the present and estimated future interest in STEM performances, it is vital that we continue aggressively to promote the complexities of science and research industry.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

California’s community colleges sit at the intersection of higher education, regional economies, and workforce development. the statewide network will be positioned as a strategic educational pipeline for high-value jobs. the statewide network will be positioned as a strategic educational pipeline for high-value jobs.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 15, 2017

Vast trenches of educated professionals are pursuing bona fide , and profitable careers shopping their specialist skills on the global, highly competitive freelance market. These days even goliaths like GE (General Electric) are appreciating the rapid popularity of the maker movement, and the consequent commercial benefits of maker spaces.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? AbD has now expanded this Oakland Learning Community into a national learning community of maker-centered educators in a variety of formal and informal settings.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

SPRK Lightning Lab hub uses CWIST’s online platform to offer a free virtual community that allows educators, students, makers and parents to communicate about their projects. Educators can set up virtual classrooms, create lessons, assign activities, view progress in real-time and review student work.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2015

Even as prices dip for some models, educational institutions and districts are also gaining financial support from outside sources for ventures into 3D printing. We recently rounded up seven 3D printers on the market, including Widaman’s Stratasys, targeted toward educators and students, from big to small, pricey to affordable.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. That’s why educators need to pay attention to cultivating skills in students that robots don't do efficiently. “We

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Registration is now open for the first national academic 3D printing conference, Construct3D 2017 , which will bring together leaders and educators in the digital fabrication discipline of 3D printing for a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding area of research and development. will present the Informal Educator Keynote.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

At the time, I was the homeless education program manager for Paducah Independent Schools District in Paducah, Kentucky. In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. Understandably, his grades were beginning to suffer and he was missing class regularly.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 15, 2015

There's a movement to take library spaces and turn them into proactive, creation-facilitating, "maker spaces." I like proactivity, I like creation, and I like the maker movement. I know, you're thinking: really ? The full statement is a must read.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 8, 2015

I've been trying to figure out why my discomfort with direction of education, and ed tech, especially in the last few years, has felt intertwined with larger social issues, but in a way I wasn't fully sure I could pinpoint. I can remember the genuine excitement of the movement to use Free and Open Source Software in schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Collectively the project was made up of more than 80,000 bricks weighing nearly 150 pounds, and its total setup at Maker Faire took nearly 10 hours to complete. GLASS BLOWERS AND BLACKSMITHS from Oakland-based industrial arts school the Crucible were welding, hammering and firing away outside the expo hall.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Brought to you by USC Rossier’s Doctor of Education online (EDd). This session is aimed at all teachers K-12.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In contrast to a makerspace, which is a more free-form experience of making, the Fab Lab that museum educators are designing is explicitly connected to the ideas of design and engineering and connects to the Next Generation Science Standards. It doesn’t appear by magic. The activity is designed for kids ages 4 to 6.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 29, 2019

He also shares a bonus fitness opportunity for educators.) In addition to his work in schools, Richard has been a consultant to some of the largest companies in the educational technology industry. He also shares a bonus fitness opportunity for educators.) Richard Byrne on episode 532.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 20, 2015

New MakerBot Handbook Helps Educators and Students Get Started with Lesson Plans and Hands-on 3D Design Projects. Thousands of educators throughout the U.S. The research shows that acquiring 3D design skills is a major hurdle for educators and there is no single resource to address this need. by TeachThought Staff.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

CoSN is designed for education leaders to better understand their changing roles in creating the new face of learning, and it''s a great event with terrific history and high-powered speakers. Through our Center for Geo-Education, we create learning materials and educational experiences for learners and the adults who teach them.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” Maker Movement.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. Coming soon: the Hack Education Ed-Tech Decade in Review). WeWork closed its K-12 school this year. (It

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’d add too that this is a problem with tech more broadly – an astounding and even self-congratulatory ignorance of the history of the industries, institutions, practices folks claim they’re disrupting.). The “maker movement.” Collaboration. Personalization. Problem-solving. Self-directed learning.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Each chapter provides rationale, research, and/or models for change, with comprehensive examples and resource links sprinkled throughout to highlight how these change have been done by today’s educators. In addition, educators need to want to change their practice, beginning from within instead of with leadership mandates. Makerspaces.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Each chapter provides rationale, research, and/or models for change, with comprehensive examples and resource links sprinkled throughout to highlight how these change have been done by today’s educators. In addition, educators need to want to change their practice, beginning from within instead of with leadership mandates. Makerspaces.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It’s time once again for my annual review of “the year in education technology,” something I’ve done since 2010. I’m feeling quite tentative about whether or not the insights that I might be able to glean about the year will have much relevance for the business and politics of education technology under Trump.

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