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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

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 ). 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ).

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

Edsurge

When the visual and performing arts, the musical and recording arts, and the theatrical and graphical arts are seen as mere luxuries or add-ons within the walls of a school, powerful forces are thereby prevented from transforming routine schooling into a renaissance of learning. The non-linearity of learning is not a new idea.

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Virtual Valentines: The Global Valentine Project Sharing Love and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Also, learn about other projects throughout the year and how teachers design these projects to meet standards. Just share that love on social media. You can take that step and share your Valentine either live or with video messaging so that you can learn about each other’s community. So much fun! Micah: Absolutely!

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Maker Education Camp: Circuit Crafts

User Generated Education

This summer I am offering: Cardboard Creations , Circuit Crafts, Toy Making and Hacking, and Robotics and Coding. These technologies are seductive especially seeing all the press they get on social media, blogs, and Kickstarter. The learners engaged in these high tech learning activities with high excitement and motivation.

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Makerspaces: On Scanning the Road & Gently Easing the Brakes

NeverEndingSearch

We are all about becoming empowered leaders who transform teaching and learning. And, while there are so many wonderful ways to inspire authentic, hands-on learning by doing, some of us feel a very strong pressure to radically transform already effective programs and spaces for a prescribed and limited vision of making.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

This summer, cities are connecting those opportunities in new ways for kids through the Cities of Learning initiative. In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. Your learning will be directed by you.” But the kids don’t get to have all the fun.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update August 26th, 2014 If a child can''t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. Ignacio Estrada The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions.