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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Innovative learning spaces and equipment do not necessarily make an impactful maker learning program.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: March 13, 2018. 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. So that’s my Go To robot. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Vicki: I love that.

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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.

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Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: February 8, 2018. 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. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Steven: Exactly.

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Virtual Valentines: The Global Valentine Project Sharing Love and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: January 23, 2018. He’s the robot there. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Virtual Valentines: Get Ready for February! Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e237. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Micah Brown @mbrownedtech , an Instructional Technology Specialist in Kansas.

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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

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. But what if we spend thousands of dollars on 3D printers, robotics, and other ephemera and it just ends up collecting dust?

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4 exciting trends that will define the 2018 education industry

eSchool News

This makes looking ahead at 2018 exciting because there is so much opportunity for districts and educators to elevate their curriculum with innovation right at their fingertips. The most hopeful potential impact of 2018’s edtech landscape is the opportunity for nurturing skills that will help students succeed in the future of work.

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