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Celebrating the National Week of Making

Digital Promise

Tomorrow marks the first day of the national Week of Making , a week dedicated to celebrating makers and providing opportunities for people across the country to make. Our video series began in Sitka, Alaska , where we saw maker learning happening across all schools in the district with support from all members of the community.

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9 Fine Ways to Do Better 20% Time

The CoolCatTeacher

For our beginning of the year passion projects, some students chose to teach others about our robotic filming Swivl tool and app. Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. Some people might call it a personal interest project.

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What Libraries Offer the Maker Movement

Educator Innovator

The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video or a collage. The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects.

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

Edsurge

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance?

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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager. Download the Transcript. Sylvia Martinez.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

You can take your videos or those from YouTube and: Clip the video. Pause the video and add your voice just in certain spots. Anyway, so he was talking about designing these little robots that were about the size of a quarter, and how they were designed. I’ve embedded videos below. Record your own voice over.

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

As career opportunities in traditional professions and large public and private organizations, decline — think automation, AI and robots — young people need to assimilate skills that enable them to make the most of the opportunities and challenges in their own economic environments. Microlearning. Peer-to-Peer learning.

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