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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.

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Foster Social-Emotional Learning through Making

Digital Promise

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.” Active listening is an SEL strategy that helps model this respect. Want to bring maker learning to your school?

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. Games4Ed facilitates collaborations between educators, researchers, game developers, publishers, and policymakers to further the use of games and other immersive strategies in schools.

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Resource: Digital Promise Adds Professional Services

Edsurge

A professional development strategy that is gaining popularity, micro-credentialing can help educators hone their skills as well as identify and learn new ones. Maker Learning. The maker movement, a technological, creative and design-focused learning revolution, is revitalizing classrooms with hands-on STEM education.

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What We Learn from Making

Digital Promise

AbD’s four downloadable thinking routines [available as PDFs from the educator resources page ] are short, deceptively simple strategies that can be used in a variety of classroom settings to encourage these capacities. Each two-page routine includes tips and suggestions on how to get started. Expanding the Circle.

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Six Ways to Build Girl-Inclusive Makerspaces

Educator Innovator

Nikole Collins-Puri, CEO of TechBridge Girls , explores her organization’s mission and outlines six key strategies for building makerspaces that are girl-inclusive, particularly for girls of color and girls from low-income communities. Nikole’s quick talk at the 3rd Annual Maker Educator Convening. Put Girls at the Center.

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7 Ideas for Student Genius Hour and Passion Projects

The CoolCatTeacher

While I go into the full pitch process in the blog post, “ 7 Strategies I Use When Students Make Apps (or Do Any Genius Project) “, I have a “red light – yellow light – green light process.” However, the secret to preventing uniformity and spark creativity, I’ve found, is in the pitch process.