A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. In times when many schools and districts have cut programs such as wood/metal shop and agriculture, makerspaces provide a 21st Century alternative to meet the learning needs of our most at-risk students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Students design and make things to meet a social need or good. Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. They’ll only have the software we’ve taught them to use – THEIR BRAIN. Compassion-based engineering.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But it nonetheless embodies what Dale Dougherty, the “father” of the movement, sees as literally the “moral imperative” of the maker movement: “to use our creative freedom to make the future better, to be hands-on in making change, and to get everyone participating fully in that future.”.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 11, 2019

I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Pearsall notes that this school year teachers are expanding their definitions of technology projects to include more maker centers and coding curriculum. As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.”

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Librarian and maker Colleen Graves recaps a lively and learner-driven session on makerspaces and embracing making as teachers of writing at the 2016 NWP Annual Meeting. What makes this conversation even more important, is that lately many of us in the maker movement have been stressing the importance of process over product.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

After being introduced to the Internet of Things (IoT) by a local software company, Tiffany Davis’ first instinct was to consider what the concept would look like in the K-12 setting. “It These days, however, they’re learning it with an IoT-meets-maker movement twist. “We

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