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The Maker Movement In Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are his thoughts on ‘the Maker Movement': With so much of the emphasis in today’s education world focusing on the need for education reform, it can be easy to forget just what this means. Common Core: A Lesson Plan for STEM (on Bridges). High Tech In The Classroom.

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Making is a Process

A Principal's Reflections

For all intensive purposes most of these students could care less about the curriculum, Common Core Standards, or standardized tests (i.e. I think we can all agree this should be the intended outcome when leading the maker movement. The creation and evolution of our makerspace solved this problem.

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

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. See also: Maker Education Draws Attention at SXSWedu, and LittleBits Shifts Into K-12 Education.

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Scratch and Makey Makey Across the Curriculum

User Generated Education

Standards Addressed: Common Core State Standards – ELA. All of the following projects utilized new Scratch 3.0 along with their new extensions: Makey Makey and Text to Speech. Language Arts: Character Development.

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This Amazing South Bronx School Grows 50,000 Pounds of Vegetables a Year

The CoolCatTeacher

Aligns to content area, instruction, and Common Core Next Generation Science Standards. And it’s all low-cost, replicable, and of course, there are our incredible tower gardens where we are growing food in a food-insecure community using 90% less water, 90% less space, and sending home 100 bags of groceries per week. Vicki: Wow!

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. The projects also teach students to build on the ideas of others, vet sources, generate questions, deeply analyze topics, and think creatively and analytically. What Does ‘Design Thinking’ Look Like in School? ).

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

I try to focus in on the standards of the writing curriculum I’m using — augmented with Common Core or whatever other standards I’m using — and focus on those, rather than sitting there with a paper and pencil and doing it that way. But I try not to do that. I think that there’s handwriting without tears.