The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. In the Brave group, students are talking about what makes someone brave. Other Articles I’ve written on 20% Time, Genius Hour, and the Maker Movement. Looking good!

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2014

Maker Movement 20% Time Genius Hour The idea of students looking away from ridged content focus all throughout the school day and giving them back some time to explore and make is gaining a foothold in many classrooms. So what is a maker space? What exactly is 20% time? Here are some great resources I''ve found.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Digital Promise recently started a coding working group for the League as a forum to share best practices and address challenges in implementing computer science. From this group, we’ve gathered insights on what the computer science movement looks like in these districts. Integrating with the Maker Movement.

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My Paperless Classroom

APRIL 23, 2014

In this cartoon there was problem solving, cooperation, innovation and a strong m"maker" ethic. Through the episode the "pod squad," the main character group the show follows, work together to design a solution to a puppet show problem: spoiler alert- giant puppets.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 12, 2014

These include tendency to group think, self-promotion, and the fact that many connected educators, he feels, push Twitter on others. As George says in the comments, group think doesn’t have to be bad. The Maker Movement-Just in the last 6-12 months there has been a movement towards MakerED.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

What are examples of maker learning projects in my subject area? As the maker movement continues to expand, more and more educators are asking these questions. Here are a few models for how to bring together the educators in your community to grow your local culture of maker learning: Maker Educator Meetups.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

Project Overview Milestone 1: Brainstorming List and Ideas Students will gather in groups by genre of film and brainstorm pitch ideas and movie names. I’ve been teaching with the Adobe Suite for over fifteen years and it has helped inspire creativity in my classroom. See also, the Adobe Premiere Rush movie project.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 1, 2021

Since Fall 2019, I’ve been part of an encouraging group of woman writers. We have a Facebook group (search for Red Ink Friends) of around 130 women and look forward to connecting as we read each day. Why Write a Book? Little did we know that during the pandemic, we would need each other so much! How We Published the Book.

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User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

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. The two I discuss in this post are: Maker movement initiatives are often driven by more affluent white males.

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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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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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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

When they reviewed their work, the authors discovered a startling trend: “Instructors consistently refer to their male students using maker terminology—‘geek,’ ‘builders,’—and then overwhelmingly referred to their female students as ‘girls’, as a gender-specific identity,” says Kim in an interview with EdSurge.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Students were broken up into teacher-selected groups that had different tasks to complete. The specific task of each group played a larger part in the Martian project. Over a period of a couple of weeks each group worked to complete their assigned tasks. There was one project in particular that has stuck with me to this day.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I had a book on maker education published by ASCD. I really love the maker movement. I am now in the process of doing it for a 3rd time with a current group of students. For more about this, see Stephen Brookfield’s book, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. Here is my list. Social Entrepreneurship.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects. The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video or a collage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers @ marinabers from Tufts University, where she is Director of the Dev Tech Research Group. The particular robots we have developed in my Dev Tech Research Group at Tufts are called Kibo. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e202. Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

mak- ered, #stem); and online communities, such as Facebook groups. Since the goal is to have learners use self-directed or heutagogical practices, the educator—as a maker educator—should offer resources as suggestions based on individual learners’ projects. Relationship Enabler and Builder.

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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. And when asked to take responsibility to teach a group of their peers, students tend to take the task quite seriously. Microlearning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

Marynn: Different groups chose different strategies, and it really ended up depending on the strengths of the teams themselves. They would say, “Oh, I’ve already done my chapters with my group. Each table would perform one chapter, and we would do feedback from the group. Vicki: Wow, so they memorized it? Or they just filmed it?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These let the teacher: View all student experiences in one place Edit and View Experiences in one place Share Student Experiences as a group Metaverse is free for teachers and students to create as many AR experiences as you want. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections.

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User Generated Education

MAY 16, 2021

The kids in both groups thoroughly enjoyed making the projects. 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. For the students at home, I delivered the kits to them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

One group of students used Bloxels to create pixel characters for a video game. Another group learned how to fingerprint with a CSI fingerprinting kit. Micki Uppena says green screen is one of the most important things for a modern library to have. 3 – Space and time to create. Others built robots or drove my Dash Wonderbot.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

And what I would do is say, “As we go through the unit, I want each group to continue creating and putting things into their jam for that topic. Another way you could do that is you could say, “Alright, this group has this project, that group has that project. “So you guys, you’re 1824 election.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

We broke them across class groupings into science and social studies and English and math, and… Vicki: I had a technology group. And we did the science group who canoed the river, did water testing and biology. We had the history group who did a dig. The English group wrote poetry on the river and did photography.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

If you want to join a group of teachers doing Virtual Valentines, you’ll want to listen to the show and sign up by February 2. You can make it as a whole group. So we’re really excited about the support in the Facebook group that we have going. Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

Let’s talk about the focus groups and critical questions driving this transformation from a place where students “have to go” to a place where they “want to be.” The Results of Student Focus Groups About the Library. Vicki: So Josh, what shocked you the most about what the kids said in these focus groups?

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Idea Generation: Learners, typically working in small groups, generate lots of ideas and questions to ask to solve the design thinking problem or challenge. This design can be pitched to another group for constructive feedback. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. To join the celebration, tune into the Twitter chat with me, fellow teachers, and the CME Group’s chief economist on April 26th at noon Eastern Time, using #PowerofEcon. Mary: Well, it’s really an engagement practice.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Black Panther (T’Challa) and the Wakanda story provide culturally relevant themes that may be of interest to students from groups most underrepresented in STEM and STEAM. 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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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects. The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video or a collage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

One of the past winners that really captured my imagination was a group of students who wanted to help a veteran. Teachers and students are invited to come up with a STEAM solution for a problem in their community. Their school can win the tools and resources necessary to help that dream become reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. Colorado Students Engineer a Prosthetic for a Veteran. This blog post is sponsored by Samsung Solve for Tomorrow. All opinions are my own. They engineered prosthetic enhancements for a veteran in need.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The best thing that changed when I brought code into my class was a different group of students rose to the top, as those that were most prepared to figure out the challenges of coding. It changed how my students treated each other. Vicki: Well, teachers, get out there and enjoy Hour of Code.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 8, 2018

You really have to observe the groups and make sure they’re working well together. For example, in this app project that I’m working on now, I had one group of kids that was going to make a Dog Dictionary, about all of the different types of dogs that were out there and that sort of thing. Vicki, I want you to red light my group.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

School groups of five or more will receive a discount. Host – the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast an author of Reinventing Writing and Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds. Please reserve the date and contact Connie White with questions. Conference enrollment will be capped at 400. Included in the STLinATL Conference .

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