Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab. But despite the work of on-the-ground educators like Day and Taylor, the maker movement in K-12 schools is far from perfect.
User Generated Education
MAY 20, 2015
The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ). Is the Maker Movement About Hacking Society—Or Just Hardware? ).
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The CoolCatTeacher
MAY 9, 2018
They are working once they have some of their work done for reader’s workshop where they are getting on their computers and investigating that way. They are reading their books during readers’ workshop. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. Blog: [link].
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).
The CoolCatTeacher
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
I personally have used FlipSnack as a way of creating more interesting workshops instead of a powerpoint or Google Slides. So that was a great way from an elementary standpoint to use FlipSnack. And then all the content and the videos and the images and links, they’re all in one spot for the kids to access.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 17, 2017
Today Angela Stockman @AngelaStockman gives our writing workshop a makeover. The author of Make Writing , Angela is passionate about creating writing workshop experiences that are relevant to today’s learners and accessible to even the most resistant writers. 5 Ways to Reach Even Resistant Writers with Writer’s Workshop.
Educator Innovator
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
When Jopeck worked as an elementary school librarian in Annandale, Va., Graves—a maker, librarian, and former English teacher—discussed the parallels between making and writing and created a graphic that listed the similarities side by side. That’s “iterating” in maker-ese. A rough draft? Same concept as a prototype.
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