User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. Assessing One’s Progress How am I doing with my maker project?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2016

Assess existing curricula, programs, and offerings within your school community Consider global trends and best practices, which will then help you to develop themes. I think we can all agree this should be the intended outcome when leading the maker movement. This should be the last step.

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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. Enterprise education is changing, and could be a real force for enabling better development (both individual and global) in future. Microlearning.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We saw some movement in the 80’s and 90’s around portfolio development, around performance assessment, and other sorts of indicators of authentic work. One of the more interesting initiatives that we’re seeing is coming out of New York, a consortium of schools called the New York Performance Assessment Consortium. Scott: Right.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This fantastic addition to your class lets students create audience-facing works for authentic assessment that can also be keepsakes from their year in your classroom. Possibly the best way to introduce students to this tool is by having them understand that they can put their best work on display for people to look at.

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

To move the field forward, interested stakeholders should work to: support efforts to document and assess maker-centered learning and teaching, through the development of frameworks and assessment practices that capture the most compelling benefits. offer more maker-related professional development experiences for educators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Listen to the Show. Related Shows.

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User Generated Education

MAY 16, 2021

There are several benefits for learners in making from a kit: I discussed stages of being a maker learner in my book Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. The kids in both groups thoroughly enjoyed making the projects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

Assessment for Learning. Speakers Include: Jay McTighe – Internationally recognized thought leader on curriculum mapping, assessment, and instructional strategies. THE STLinATL CONFERENCE WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING AREAS: Whole Child (e.g., STEM/STEAM Integration. Contemporary Literacy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Learners, then, being self directed, take initiative and responsibility for their learning, set their own goals, select and manage their resources, and assess the degree of personal success.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

When thinking of makerspaces today, our learning experience in his class was one connected to the guiding principles of the maker movement. Mr. South had us actively learn science instead of just taking notes and then a traditional assessment. It was relevant, meaningful, and fun.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 29, 2016

This includes accurately assessing one’s strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism. Example questions related to self-management and making include: What processes am I using to develop, assess, and revise my goals while making? How are my peers and I collaborating ?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I would say that jams are kind of “messy,” so if I was assessing a jam, I wouldn’t assess on neatness. Tom: So, the entire jam you can do as a PDF. So you can do it that way, and then once you have that you can submit that as an assignment. You get messy. You just do. It’s part of the process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

If you assess along the way, in this way, on your feet, by the time kids turn in those final copies, the quality is that much better because you provided bits of feedback along the way. #4: Assess on your feet, not at midnight on your weekend. How are you going to have them write on their feet and you assess on your feet?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. As you set up or evaluate the Maker movement in your school or district I ask you to think about the ten ideas I have below.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

As the 21st century learning movement expands internationally, we’re seeing an abundance of frameworks, assessments, and semantic labels as different organizations put their spin on what’s worth knowing. Wondering how to teach and assess 21st century competencies? Full sized infographic here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2017

It can be choice in their assessment. It can be choice in content, and they can still hit skills and standards-based the content that they choose. But, it can be choice in their learning path. It can be choice in how they demonstrate understanding. It can be choice in the timeframe. As a teacher, you then allow them to be empowered.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A sponsored review of a tool I'm using to teach programming From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Augmented reality is here. When Google Docs came out, I stopped everything and let all of my classes experience it. Also, I learned about Twitter, I did the same thing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

And so I think it’s OK to build parameters. It’s OK to have confines. But make sure you leave the top open, so kids can climb out of that box and just blow our socks off with the idea that they can come up with.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2014

The Maker movement, user-generated videos, self-published eBooks, personalized domains, and other platforms have all seen steep increases in recent years. Those who forge collectively ahead will change their courses to accommodate student use of technologies to create their own content, and change their assessment methods too.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

$W021 | Making Makers Mainstream … Connecting Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s. The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. Sunday, January 27, 2019 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM. Venue: Orange County Convention Center. Room: NORTH 220F. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Jackie Gerstein discusses why we are in a perfect storm for maker education and the maker mindset–new skills and roles (many of which you probably already have on your internal desk)–with a self-assessment to help you determine how maker-ready you are, and what you need to do if you want to get there… What follows are the slide deck (..)

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Project Zero’s Agency by Design team is developing documentation and assessment tools for maker-centered learning and “maker empowerment”, which they see as the key to ensuring that the maker movement secures a long-term place in education and pedagogy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Betty Shiver on episode 194 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In today’s show, Betty Shiver, my former curriculum director and the person who convinced me to become a teacher and I talk about teaching.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Edutopia Makers Area – Take a moment to discuss, watch,and browse through amazing topics and possibilities. Discover how educators are harnessing the energy of the maker movement to inspire student exploration across the STEM subjects. Check out the site for awesome resources and lessons. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Explore Gooru’s ability to provide lessons with formative assessment and feedback.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Project Zero’s Agency by Design team is developing documentation and assessment tools for maker-centered learning and “maker empowerment”, which they see as the key to ensuring that the maker movement secures a long-term place in education and pedagogy.

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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. The more they develop a maker mindset, the better they are at designing their own systems for their creative work.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

We want our students to collaborate on projects in real-time, or we want our staff to collaborate on assessments and lessons together. Maker Movement. So today, the maker movement is my additional part of being a digital leader. This maker movement has opened wonderful conversations for my staff.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

Embracing a Maker Culture can take the standards in our curriculum and make them come alive as students practice the 4 C’s, venture to the top of Blooms, and experience the real depth found in Webb’s. Of course, important 21st-century skills can also be assessed. Are your students aware of the assessment and how to perform?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Using a completely adaptive learning engine and technology-enhanced assessments, UpSmart provides the right level of instruction and practice on each topic for each student. Ed-tech company Workbench and Maryland’s network of public libraries have partnered to launch an online maker space for libraries throughout the state.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 29, 2017

They can tinker, build, engineer, craft, program, and create with anything from cardboard to sophisticated technology projects.You don’t have to have a fancy Maker Space filled with expensive equipment. Also, check out this great article by Vicki Davis: How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms. Beyond the Due Date.

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