The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

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. Previously, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, evangelizing student leadership through modern technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

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. Other Articles I’ve written on 20% Time, Genius Hour, and the Maker Movement.

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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. Be sure to check out these f ree lesson plans Arduino This is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Each kit comes with a MaKey MaKey, Alligator Clips, USB Cable.

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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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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2016

They’re part of the Maker Movement, a revolution that’s unleashing digital design tools (like 3D modeling software) and production devices (like 3D printers), and letting citizens design and make almost anything they can dream. Right now, in your city or town — in your state and region — people are making things.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2016

They’re part of the Maker Movement, a revolution that’s unleashing digital design tools (like 3D modeling software) and production devices (like 3D printers), and letting citizens design and make almost anything they can dream. You can follow her on Twitter at @kcator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In addition to creating curriculum, Michael also writes software to make life easier for teachers. His most recent project is Build and Program Games with Arduino, a curriculum that introduces students to Arduino by walking them through how to make an electronic Tug-o-War and Simon Says game.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

Entrants must be 18 years or older to enter and submissions must be an engineering project that was built or created using hardware or software. Tom Coughlin, Chair of the IEEE Public Visibility Committee, IEEE Senior Member and lifelong advocate of the maker movement, will serve as the host of this competition. .”

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

CWIST is a leader in providing content and an online platform for the maker movement. CWIST’s platform brings maker-inspired products to students, schools and consumers, nationwide. The partnership with Sphero is the latest example of how CWIST is working with leading making manufacturers to expand its reach to educators.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. I've been saying that for 7 years or so.long before I blogged about it, I tried it out. Now.having said that. What do you think?

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2015

Thornburg said 3D printing is headed in the direction of being “another piece of technology that’s just going to be there,” both in the classroom and even in mediums such as students’ smartphones (where they might access modelling software, for instance, or queue up printing projects from mobile browsers).

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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. Physical computing is a creative framework for understanding human beings’ relationship to the digital world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Or you can use Tinkercad or any other 3D modeling software. Explore 3D Bear Now So, for example, if a student goes into Sketchup (formerly Google Sketchup) and you’ve added Sketchup’s STL extension, they can create or import items and then export them.

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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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MindShift

MARCH 8, 2017

The maker movement has expanded greatly in recent years and much of the attention has focused on cities with high population density and large well-funded school districts. They liked it, too, because they’d never worked hardware and software together. All this is in the spirit of maker education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

the software provider for people who make things, and will be hosted at Duke University from May 5-7, 2017 at the JB Duke Hotel. Dale Dougherty , the Maker Movement’s most passionate and warm-hearted proponent, instigator of both MAKE: Magazine and wide global network of Maker Faire events, founder and CEO of Maker Media, Inc.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I am a self-proclaimed “tech nerd” and love to have my hands on all the latest and greatest products and software. I am the Technology Coordinator for Brinnon School District in Brinnon, WA. I love the camaraderie among other educators. Being able to network with so many other educators through social media has been an amazing experience.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The “maker movement.” One of the earliest flight simulators – and yes, this predates the Microsoft software program by over fifty years, but postdates the Wright Brothers by only about twenty – was developed by Edwin Link. Collaboration. Personalization. Problem-solving. Self-directed learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

However, although the functional teaching objectives of this lesson are to onboard students as quickly as possible into the software and systems they’ll be using, the relational teaching objective is to help me know at least one thing they love. I want them to join Google classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

So the students invited him to their school, interviewed him, and—using 3D software and a 3D printer—designed a better fitting prosthetic for him. One of the past winners that really captured my imagination was a group of students who wanted to help a veteran. This veteran was unhappy with his prosthetic and how it felt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I like to use Kanban Boards and Agile Software Development principles (something outside the scope of this article). Ideation and Planning The top student mistake in a larger build is starting without first ideating , or generating ideas, for their app or experience. Then, after they ideate, they have to plan what will be in the experience.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This past week, I had students modeling processors, hardware, and software using play-dough. Steve Jobs said in his final Apple keynote introducing the iPad 2, “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

Students need people problems, design problems, software problems, communication problems, and all kinds of issues to develop problem-solving abilities. When students form teams based on their ideas and plan and create apps to bring those ideas into reality, they are being given a developmental experience that is transformative.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

This could also be accomplished through adaptive learning software, smart apps, and a blended approach to learning that mixes precise decoding instruction driven by personal learning algorithms, mixed with “human” teaching of the art and science of media design. ” (1). Which is bad.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 8, 2015

I can remember the genuine excitement of the movement to use Free and Open Source Software in schools. We may be seeing the same cycle play out in the maker movement. There was passion, creativity, and building computer labs for almost no money. but then there was a switch.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Maker Media abruptly shut down operations and laid off its staff , but Edsurge — whose investors include Maker Media founder Dale Dougherty — insists that this will have no effect on the “maker movement” or on the Maker Education Initiative.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

Many school leaders believe that by using technology and adaptive software to allow students to move at different paces, they are offering “personalized learning.” BYOD/Maker Movement: In just one or two years, experts predict Bring Your Own Device policies and makerspaces will be commonplace in schools. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Hardware and software choices? I think it’s just when we start with video — and I made that mistake early on — I guess it’s kind of ignorance, in some ways. We just don’t know better. Once you know better, you guide your kids through the scripting, through the storyboarding, or use Jason Ohler’s storymap idea.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Along the bottom, it has all your pages and it looks like another other kind of presentation type software you have used. All of the options are across the top like a toolbar where you can access the videos and the tags and you have access to both a bank of video and images as well as Google images as well as things you want to upload.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I’m a software developer by my formalized profession. Most programmers who are just starting out, or anyone who is just jumping in to learn programming — this could be any age, from a 6-year-old onward up to an adult. Before I started doing all this, I’d say that I learned programming for the same reasons.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2015

’ “In many ways it’s very connected to the maker movement, but there is more of an intentional focus on some of the skills connected to engineering, electrical engineering and more of an intentional draw back to math concepts,” said Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy for the museum.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions and so on are all part of the ‘maker movement’ in my mind. He points out the problems in not paying for technology that supports student learning, including the challenge of smaller software companies to produce excellent resources.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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. A 3D printed object isn’t the learning, the student designing a 3D model in software is where the real learning takes place. Thanks to my own kid for this anecdote!)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Economically disadvantaged students tend to lack exposure to experiences that nudge them toward building future stories as say, a software engineer or an inventor of the next biomedical innovation. Our situation is not that unique for rural communities—neither is the story of one youth getting lost in the system.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 20, 2015

This requires educators to teach 3D design and introduce students to the software that enables them to take an idea and turn it into a 3D printable design. Each project introduces a different type of free 3D design software, including Tinkercad, OpenSCAD, Sculptris and 123D Design.

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