User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Jackie actively blogs at [link] and tweets at [link].

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Maker learning is more than just making “stuff.” Maker learning is a highly collaborative process that embraces a team approach to learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to number two in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts of STEM being a Verb a few posts back, along with the 40 resources geared toward STEM Science in the last pos t. Technology – STEM Resources. This post is dedicated to Technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2019

His most recent project is Build and Program Games with Arduino, a curriculum that introduces students to Arduino by walking them through how to make an electronic Tug-o-War and Simon Says game. In addition to creating curriculum, Michael also writes software to make life easier for teachers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You know the maker movement has hit the big leagues when even the President is talking about it. Earlier this year, for the National Week of Making, President Obama issued a call to action to educators, designers, and makers of all stripes. How do I integrate design, modeling and 3D printing into an eighth grade U.S.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Integrating with the Maker Movement. Districts are also finding a natural integration between computational thinking and maker learning. The district has also held coding nights where parents learned how to code along with students. These efforts excite students and provide them pathways to further develop their passions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. But if I’m teaching how to use Scratch Jr., app is designed to help people learn how to use it. I’ll spend about a month noodling around in Scratch, learning how it works, and then I’ll bring it to my fourth grade students. Enhanced Transcript. Vicki: Oh no!

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Digital Promise

JUNE 22, 2017

Keira, one of the Year 5 students at Mundaring Primary School, observed, “[The Americans] had a completely different perspective on how to make board games than we did. She added, “The students in my class who did not take part in the exchange are looking for an opportunity to talk to the students at Skyline after our next STEM project.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Often schools who have arts, STEM or other enrichment choose to take one enrichment period and have a “genius hour” where students explore their talents to make and create. Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Toyota Dream Car Art Contest From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter STEM, STEAM, and design thinking are buzzwords in education today. In addition to true STEM projects, we also work to include the arts in all subjects. How to Use the U.S. Help Your Students Enter the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that by 2022, California will have the largest STEM workforce in the nation. Four Makers and Their Innovations. I think there is a great partnership possible between the Maker movement and California’s community colleges,” says Dale Dougherty, Founder and CEO of. Maker Media.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

But Pauline, today you have for us five ways to amp up STEM in middle school. Pauline: I think the first thing to consider is how you can collaborate with your science, engineering or math teaching colleagues. We have fifth and sixth-grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2015

The maker movement has created opportunities for all educators to give students authentic learning opportunities that go beyond the typical classroom experiences and to rethink traditional learning environments to include those that nurture the kinds of creativity and innovation that will benefit our students both in school and beyond.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? It’s often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation — and it is probably both of these. Each two-page routine includes tips and suggestions on how to get started.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

First… I hope you enjoyed the over 150 STEM Resources in the last few posts. I also have also provided those over 150 STEM Resources. W021 | Making Makers Mainstream … Connecting Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s. The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

In today’s show, we’ll discuss: How to make time for tinkering. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Click here. .

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Educator Innovator

JULY 17, 2017

For the past 17 years, Techbridge Girls has been working to break down barriers that often keep young women, particularly those of color from low-income communities, out of STEM careers and the maker movement. If our girls are excited about lip balm, we teach them how to make lip balm through the lens of chemical engineering.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. Big or small, lavish or little, it's all about the maker mindset. How about lightly spraying all the cardboard rolls with Lysol?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Maker Learning. The maker movement, a technological, creative and design-focused learning revolution, is revitalizing classrooms with hands-on STEM education. Educators can use the lessons of maker learning to enhance student-centered teaching practices.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up. Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space. Gingerbread STEM Community Challenge. Micah: Yes.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. 16 Resources to Build and Support a Maker’s Culture.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 11, 2016

However, they are also complemented by STEM projects like these Lego ones shown in the same workspace which embrace curriculum themes like planning, teamwork, and designing. Big Idea #2 – Keep Many Hands Busy With Maker/Building Challenges. Big Idea #2 – Keep Many Hands Busy With Maker/Building Challenges.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It mixes all aspects of STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math–and sprinkles it with imagination for an exploration of “what if.”. Here’s a suggested donation list of STEM essentials. The Maker Movement has inspired lots of reference books to help justify the concept, design a space, and plan activities.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer. To combat summer learning loss and keep those STEM skills fresh over the summer, Project Lead The Way put together a list of super simple (and fun) STEM activities you can do with your children over summer break. Maybe it is why grass is green or how space travel started.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

STEM/STEAM Integration. Suzie Boss – Inspiring speaker, consultant, and author of several popular books including All Together Now: How to Engage Your Stakeholders in Reimaging School and Reinventing Project-Based Learning. THE STLinATL CONFERENCE WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING AREAS: Whole Child (e.g., Assessment for Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Arts in Every Subject: How to Make It Happen. Through a program called SmART Schools (www.smartschoolsnetwork.org), teachers were able to come in and learn how to they could use the arts inside their classrooms. Below is an enhanced transcript, modified for your reading pleasure. All comments in the shaded green box are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students can be filmmakers in this fun, engaging project that teaches graphic design, photography, the prototyping process and more.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

See Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus for more about this. Students should be reminded how to find the polarities of both the LEDs (the longer leg is positive) and the coin battery (it has a + on the top – the side with a little bit larger diameter).

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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. She spent her free time in class looking up how to set up lead magnets and create funnels for an email list. She had a maker mindset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor host the Teaching Python Podcast where they share how to help kids of all ages learn this valuable language. We can start teaching the second most popular coding language – Python – in our schools.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Another group discovers that if they hit “repeat” multiple times, they can create a parachute-like design that they’ve figured out how to color in various ways. We still don’t know how to use [it] very well,” Guadalupe admits. He’s been coaching teachers on how to incorporate “making” into their curriculum when it’s appropriate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. I was blown away by the topics they were wondering about. If I hadn’t asked this question, I never would have known that someone in our classroom was wondering about Braille.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

This allows learners lots of choice in how to demonstrate their understanding of a new concept. One student created a village that teaches how arrays are used to store data, using chickens and pigs in a series of pens. Learn more from Douglas this summer in Boston for Enhancing STEM Curriculum with Technology. He holds an Ed.M.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. Did you know you could do this?”. They started discovering things. “OH, OH, we can download this. We can do that.”. That was Part 1. That was Day 1.

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