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Why Making and the Arts Need Each Other to Survive and Thrive in Schools

Edsurge

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance? What about the visual arts like photography and graphic design ?

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A Fuller Framework for Making in Maker Education

User Generated Education

“Praxis” may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. This can occur by writing about the making process, and/or by doing a photo essay, video, podcast to share via social media. ”( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ).

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education.

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7 Strategies I Use When Students Make Apps (or Do Any Genius Projects)

The CoolCatTeacher

We have this one app called the “Swole Patrol” and that’s an app that’s about exercises by teens for teens. Sometimes we’ll have Marketers doing something with social media. They’ll typically create a Twitter, Instagram, social media type platforms to go with it. We also like things that rhyme. That’s a great one.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

Edsurge

EdLeader21 has developed a toolkit to guide districts and independent schools in developing their own “portrait of a graduate” as a visioning exercise. She leverages social media and blogging to reflect on what works and shares her insights with colleagues. What can they design that works well for their community?”