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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot–or as under-researched–as “Maker” education. 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.

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Maker Culture Has a ?Deeply Unsettling? Gender Problem

Edsurge

The goal wasn’t to count the number of 3D printers or robotics clubs, but rather to take a more “ethnographic” view of the phenomena, says Youngmoo Kim, the director of Drexel’s ExCITe Center and an author of the study. By contrast, adults never referred to groups of male students as “boys.”

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7 Things to Know About Coding in the Early Childhood Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

We work with robotics, because robotics are tools that allow them to learn coding and to learn abstract logic and thinking while not sitting in front of a computer screen. So robots have motors, they have sensors, they can move around. Each block represents a command for the robot. So same as with a robot.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

In this case, we asked teachers to specifically choose math or science because we wanted to do a STEM-to-STEAM arts integration. Anyway, so he was talking about designing these little robots that were about the size of a quarter, and how they were designed. So each grade level, each classroom at each grade level, picked a content area.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero. We do use LEGO Mindstorms with like a couple kids here and there will LOVE to work with LEGO Mindstorms, and I have a robotics club that will use those. Leah: We do.

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Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades

The CoolCatTeacher

Calculating those X and Y coordinates — which really kids of most ages can do — and then realizing that they can make the physical robot go here or there based upon their program. That’s what these robots are. The students will type in the stuff to get the robot to here or to there, and it doesn’t work.

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Virtual Valentines: The Global Valentine Project Sharing Love and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space. Gingerbread STEM Community Challenge. Like you just mentioned, in December we did the Gingerbread STEM Community Challenge. He’s the robot there. She just finished up the Gingerbread STEM Community, because that was a December project.

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