User Generated Education

OCTOBER 5, 2019

I am beyond elated – our PreK-6 elementary school received monies, through our district’s Computer Science Resolution 2025, to create a STEAM (science, technology, arts, math) makerspace. I never thought our Title 1 school would get the opportunity to create such a space.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. The platform allows educators to fund everything from technology supplies to professional development trips. (In This is a process.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

Conditions in society’s economic and technological spheres, however—at levels from local to global—have amped up stresses on our schooling systems more than ever before as we work within the confines of time. My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Steve Jobs said in his final Apple keynote introducing the iPad 2, “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”. Anyway, so he was talking about designing these little robots that were about the size of a quarter, and how they were designed. Vicki: Wow.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Aligned with the maker movement—which focuses on using hands-on activities like building, sewing, assembling and computer programming for learning—the kits provide a foundation that teachers can use for guided projects both in and out of the classroom. I used all of those materials to build our maker lab,” says Howell.

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 29, 2014

While I am sure you already realize technology itself is nothing new. In fact, at one point, a tractor, train, light bulb, and even a pencil were radical technology. I must confess, I myself am really into the whole maker movement. Like computer science labs, I am not a huge fan of maker labs either.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Since creating our school’s makerspace in November 2013, I’ve seen a small revolution start to grow within our elementary school and also across our district. This past year has helped to give our maker movement stronger momentum with the addition of school sponsored clubs (multi-grade makers club and Lego Robotics).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking with Micah Brown @mbrownedtech , an Instructional Technology Specialist in Kansas. OK, so let’s say that I’m a teacher and I’m not super comfortable with technology. He’s the robot there. in Elementary Education. Virtual Valentines: Get Ready for February! Date: January 23, 2018. Vicki: Wow!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

At the time, I was in the process of developing a program called “The Tech Pipeline” that allowed local, fast-growing technology companies to connect with prospective talent in the community through our schools. They were in search of talent that could communicate effectively and solve problems in a rapidly changing technological environment.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

They often contain the tools, machinery, and technologies associated with making – 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters, high tech robotics, vocational tech machinery. Problems occur when administrators, educators, learners, and communities come to believe that maker education is synonymous with these tools and spaces.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Content Curation as a Context for Learning - Eric Walters, Director of Technology Innovation and Education: Why and how they belong together - William J.

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