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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

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Both of the elementary schools where I work have general consumables for educators (and I believe it’s true for most schools): xerox paper, butcher block paper, crayons, scissors, tape, markers, rubber bands, papers clips. As Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame noted in his 2016 Bay Area Maker Faire talk: What is making?

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What Will It Take to Push the K-12 Maker Movement to Be More Inclusive?

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Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab. But despite the work of on-the-ground educators like Day and Taylor, the maker movement in K-12 schools is far from perfect.

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

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The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ). Is the Maker Movement About Hacking Society—Or Just Hardware? ).

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Do Pre-Packaged Kits Belong in Makerspaces?

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Aligned with the maker movement—which focuses on using hands-on activities like building, sewing, assembling and computer programming for learning—the kits provide a foundation that teachers can use for guided projects both in and out of the classroom. There’s kits and then there’s kits ,” says Martinez. “I Our teachers love them.”

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Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade

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I think this whole passion project was definitely more about the process than the product. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. Name some ways your kids investigate their wonderings. I guess in some ways they’re wandering through their wonderings (laughs).

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No Begging Required: Teachers Share 5 Creative Ways to Fund Classroom Technology

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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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Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program

The CoolCatTeacher

Aditya: Oh, definitely. So you definitely get those naysayers, people who look at it with disdain because you’re really dumbing it down. Vicki: We’re also talking about teaching kids in elementary, middle, and high school. Have you heard that? I think there are always going to be proponents of both these views.