Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This post is part of a series in which we frame maker learning in terms of three core values — Agency , Authenticity , and Audience — as the key components to creating the highest quality making experiences for learning. One way to embed audience in maker learning projects is through the practice of human-centered design or design thinking.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

That sense of “maker empowerment” arises when students learn to notice and engage with their physical and conceptual environments, the report states. Students choose a system and ask: What are the parts of the system? Who are the people connected to the system? Expanding the Circle.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The idea behind the Makers Movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, formatively learn, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. We are now past the initial way of thinking, and the Makers movement allows people to finally use the technology to create and make.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2016

Apply for grants or funds to bring science stations and labs, iPads and computer systems into your classroom to keep students involved. The Maker Movement In Education. Often it is quite difficult to generate enthusiasm in young people regarding scientific disciplines when all you have is a textbook as a resource.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Peer-led learning communities assume other trending concepts like life-long learning and a trend towards decentralized systems (including the flipped classroom). Microlearning. Privacy and safety.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2016

To recognize educators pioneering the maker movement in STEM education, Dremel , manufacturer of tools for life and learning, announces 10 Dremel Idea Builder Ambassadors for the 2016-17 school year. Nick Provenzano, Grosse Pointe Public School System, Grosse Point, Mich. Faith Plunkett, Huntsville City Schools, Huntsville, Ala.

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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.) ” Agency by Design: In Action.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2019

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 18, 2019

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Educator Innovator

JULY 17, 2017

For the past 17 years, Techbridge Girls has been working to break down barriers that often keep young women, particularly those of color from low-income communities, out of STEM careers and the maker movement. Nikole’s quick talk at the 3rd Annual Maker Educator Convening. Our model is not rocket science, but it is intentional.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in information systems from [Carnegie Mellon University]( [link] ) in Pittsburgh, PA. Sean is the founder of [Red Reef Digital]( [link] ), a digital marketing consulting firm and is a certified [HubSpot]( [link] ) partner.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. They will need to have a maker mindset. And when this happens, they take this maker mindset outside of school as they initiate their own projects at home.

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My Island View

AUGUST 12, 2016

On the surface one would expect that in consideration of their rarity and with all of this reverence for innovation and entrepreneurship, that support would abound to propagate and spread innovation within any system, especially one like Education that should model what is the very best in what is expected of its learners.

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My Island View

AUGUST 12, 2016

On the surface one would expect that in consideration of their rarity and with all of this reverence for innovation and entrepreneurship, that support would abound to propagate and spread innovation within any system, especially one like Education that should model what is the very best in what is expected of its learners.

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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. Use a model to test interactions concerning the functioning of a natural system. Science: Brain Science.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

In one panel, Black Panther/T’Challa beams with pride over the scientists’ development of stellar cartography and the discovery of another solar system. Underrepresented students who are passionate about art or making can feel excluded from STEM initiatives such as the Maker Movement or NASA’s Journey to Mars space program.

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My Island View

AUGUST 12, 2016

On the surface one would expect that in consideration of their rarity and with all of this reverence for innovation and entrepreneurship, that support would abound to propagate and spread innovation within any system, especially one like Education that should model what is the very best in what is expected of its learners.

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The first session focused on having teachers build a satellite and in doing so, answer the question, “how do GPS systems work?” Utilizing the approach of learning through doing, the teachers were simultaneously learning about one of the most innovative concepts in science education today, the Maker Movement.

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My Island View

JULY 5, 2017

Public education is a common experience for most Americans, which is why so many people often feel that they have the answers to how to fix what they perceive as a broken system. In order to effectively change the system we first need to change the culture. This is true of many educators as well as parents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

Julie Wilcott talks about how we can bring sustainable food systems and understanding into our schools with these five simple ideas. 5 Ways to Bring Sustainable Food Systems into Your School. Today we’re talking to Julie Willcott @WillcottJulie about five ideas for helping integrate sustainable food systems into our schools.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2015

With the maker movement in schools in full force across the country, it seems like students everywhere are excited and interested in learning about programming, electronics, robotics, and more. Using an iPad to control the small Raspberry Pi is easier than you think. [

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2017

So when students are empowered, they learn how to navigate multiple systems and build even more efficient systems for themselves and for the people that they’re serving. They challenge “the system”. AJ: Alright, so fourth is that they challenge the system. But when you empower kids, they challenge the system.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. It actually looks like you’re holding a spinning solar system in your hands. My favorite one is the one about the solar system. Your favorite thing is the solar system. Vicki: So here’s the question. Karen: Absolutely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

And meanwhile the sixth graders had a health unit where they had to learn about body systems, how a disease or an issue could attack the body, and what you could do – either medically or the body would do to defeat that health system. And all the way up.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The “maker movement” can play an important role in getting kids interested in innovation and design, and littleBits —which makes easy-to-use electronic building blocks—is finding itself at the center of this movement. I didn’t know that word when I was in the third grade.”. Here are some of the highlights from the Playground.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

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My Island View

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are passionate teacher advocates supporting each of these methods as the best way for kids to learn. Change is difficult and uncomfortable for everyone.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are passionate teacher advocates supporting each of these methods as the best way for kids to learn. Change is difficult and uncomfortable for everyone.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Obviously, schools as systemic structures need to change quite a bit. Those four shifts seem to resonate with folks because they have seen the power of those, at least in small doses within their systems. Unfortunately, systems change slowly. But getting while systems to move is a whole ‘nother matter. They make sense.

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My Island View

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The flipped classroom, maker movement, project-based learning, blended learning, student centered learning, hour of code, collaboration, direct instruction, and lecture, there are passionate teacher advocates supporting each of these methods as the best way for kids to learn. Change is difficult and uncomfortable for everyone.

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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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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. In his greenhouse class, students design hydroponic systems. Bowers isn’t just teaching kids how to crunch numbers on spreadsheets.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

After plugging in the headset, make sure you’ve chosen the right system settings to run it. You’ll probably need to update the Mixed Reality Operating System plug-in from Microsoft. For example, when you launch the system, you can choose a method in mixed reality that allows students to both stand and sit. Trace the area.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Champions are the organizational mavericks, they exist within a system but are given autonomy to explore alternative, creative solutions. Innovators are interested in new ideas from outside of established local social system. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

And then, perhaps, we can develop into the kind of education system that benefits every child. Get rid of the Google it and copy it off Wikipedia projects and move more full-bodied comprehensive projects full of meaning and momentum into the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Using this tip, you can create a sort of social sharing environment inside your classroom management system. You can use this format in your Google classroom. Then, let students look at them on their phones. It guides you through the publishing process without all of the “geek speak” required in most filmmaking programs.

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