Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This post originally appeared at Usable Knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The maker movement — think of it as “smart DIY,” a high- and low-tech approach to tinkering that turns users into inventors — is spurring excitement about the power of ingenuity in fields as disparate as robotics and design and agriculture.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

But then also giving them a couple chances at maybe making a few of those beginner mistakes and getting a little goofy, and then, “Get it out of your system, because this is for a grade.”. Vicki: And I just want to stress — also as a fellow technology educator — that sandboxing is so important. Now, do you use robots?

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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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. We live in an era where robotics and artificial intelligence will replace many of our current jobs. They will need to have a maker mindset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

public schools can refer their educator colleagues to complete a contest submission and they will be entered for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Note8 or Samsung 65” TV. Designed and built a robotic car seat to alert adults when children are left in hot cars. Not open to the general public: No purchase necessary to enter or win.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Champions are the organizational mavericks, they exist within a system but are given autonomy to explore alternative, creative solutions. Innovators are interested in new ideas from outside of established local social system. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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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. Our situation is not that unique for rural communities—neither is the story of one youth getting lost in the system. Understandably, his grades were beginning to suffer and he was missing class regularly.

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User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

After a 10-state tour through educational makerspaces (both in-school and off-site facilities with an educational penchant), researchers from D rexel University’s ExCITe Center found a non-inclusive culture with a lack of attention to implicit biases. Don’t advantage one kind of building over another.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

I’ve listed some examples of disruption in education below, and ranked them (though obviously the ranking is entirely subjective and only useful as a crude reference point to start your own thinking). Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content).

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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). Dangerous practices and products are normalized.

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