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Get ready to Make/Hack/Play!

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The Making Learning Connected MOOC (clmooc) that happened this summer was a great experience for me and for many others. This will be a short 3-week introduction to the maker movement for educators. Participants will be able to choose from a wide variety of real-world and digital projects to make.

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MIT’s Mitch Resnick on What ‘Toy Story’ Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

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To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I We started the online class for the first time a few years ago when MOOCs were becoming population.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

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In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. In Chicago , it might mean doing some urban camping with the Chicago Park District or stargazing at the Adler Planetarium.

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Announcing the Library 2.017 "Makerspaces" Mini-Conference and Call for Proposals.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She is also the faculty lead for the University of Michigan's Public Library Management MOOC courses at EdX.org. link] Kyungwon Koh, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies Dr. Kyungwon Koh is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Two Great Library Events - GlobalEdCon Deadline - UNC's Amazing World View

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participatory, hyperlinked library services; DIY and maker movements; emerging technology in academic and research libraries; Google Glass—our Library 2.014 conference covered a broad range of topics and these were among the most notable. Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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Some hot topics will be virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing, coding and the maker movement. We will see more and more educational MOOC platforms to replace classroom training, as they afford users universal access to knowledge. What this means to me is that some 30,000 schools need to be transformed.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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