Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The maker movement — think of it as “smart DIY,” a high- and low-tech approach to tinkering that turns users into inventors — is spurring excitement about the power of ingenuity in fields as disparate as robotics and design and agriculture. Even the White House has hosted a Maker Faire.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.” Their definition of art is broad encompassing everything from dance to robotics, theater, 3D printing and software development. Teachers turning to DonorsChoose must be willing to gamble, however.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 26, 2015

The maker movement is growing I can''t tell you how many sessions there were on 3D Printing, makerspaces, tinkering, hacking, etc. The vendor hall was filled with products and companies supporting and connected with the maker movement. Swivl is a rotating "robot" that follows you while capturing video and audio.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

At conferences, librarians share with me that their administrators insist they devote significant library real estate to 3D printing and a variety of other maker equipment. The action in our huge open technology wing engaged kids in robotics and coding and CAD and now, 3D printing. robotics teachers (OMG! cartooning spaces.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

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 Scratch will be able to connect to online databases and pull in data in a real-time way.

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MOOC Maker Movement Course Robotics 107

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

What Will a Liberal Arts Education Look Like in 50 Years? Three Steps for Improving Students'' Self-Reliance in Learning. Three Steps for Improving Students'' Self-Reliance in Learning. Karen Cameron shares the Praise, Prompt, and Leave strategy in this week''s post.

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MindShift

MAY 3, 2016

The Maker Movement has helped spur renewed interest in hands-on learning and the value of spaces where children can explore their own ideas, be creative, and tinker. The one trend I’m always surprised by is that the kids who go to tinkering have been the kids who come to the club and want to start their own programs,” Gutierrez said.

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RafranzDavis.com

MAY 25, 2016

Being a “Maker” Isn’t New or Necessarily Tech. In education, we have a way of taking a “thing” and reframing it to be something else…to fit our ideas or the latest trend of the moment but making isn’t new. Making has been the fabric of mankind since we existed. It’s not about devices.

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Robotics Learning Maker Movement Accessibility 70

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Maker Movement. Robotics in the classroom. Change in cultural perception of identity–gender, technology, science, faith, sexuality, etc. Change in credibility of a high school diploma or college degree. Increasingly formal use of social media by education institutions. Relative “normalizing” of computer coding.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives. Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. So much innovation and “edsurgency.”

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