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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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Seven Things That Happen When Kids Embrace a Maker Mindset

The Principal of Change

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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Makerspaces and Opportunities for Learning Literacy

Reading By Example

Educators are always trying to stuff literacy into anything students are doing. Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). What they all have in common is they are personalized to the needs of the students. How to make almost anything: The digital fabrication revolution.

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Makerspaces and Opportunities for Learning Literacy

Reading By Example

Educators are always trying to stuff literacy into anything students are doing. Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). What they all have in common is they are personalized to the needs of the students. How to make almost anything: The digital fabrication revolution.

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Grappling with Equity and Gaze: A Conversation with Shirin Vossoughi and Meg Escudé

Educator Innovator

As the maker movement continues to build in numbers, I’ve been particularly interested in the critical research that is scrutinizing the dynamics of interaction and learning within spaces of making. Meg: We also thought a lot about the politics and ethics of educational research, and the importance of building trust with students.

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The Top 50 Best Books for Teachers – Professional Development

Fractus Learning

Part of The Corwin Connected Educator series, in this volume you’ll use the principles of connectedness and flipped learning to engage stakeholders—teachers, administrators, and parents—digitally, so they’re ready for productive discussion when you meet in person. Design For How People Learn (Voices That Matter) – Julie Dirksen.

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Maker Monday: Start the Week with Creativity and Purpose

The CoolCatTeacher

Vicki: So if you could, you know, coach a teacher on how to pitch this to their administrator, what would be your elevator pitch if you were that teacher? They want to know that students engagement is high. But they also want to know that students are going to do well on a test. I mean that’s my first thing.

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