User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

And once taught the skills of how to invent, there is no stopping them ( Opinion: Every student can be an inventor ). They spent many hours fully engaged during remote learning making inventions including musical instruments, board games, new tools, machines, and robots. Board Game Piece Board Game Piece New Tool Note Chute Robot.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it. Leah: We do.

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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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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Lightning Lab will make it even easier to use the SPRK robot in the classroom because students can access te instructions and starter code inside of the app. Creating this new platform required a new partnership, keep reading to learn about how CWIST helped make Lightning Lab a success. Sphero makes app-enabled, teachable robots.

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The CoolCatTeacher

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. The students will type in the stuff to get the robot to here or to there, and it doesn’t work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Arts in Every Subject: How to Make It Happen. Through a program called SmART Schools (www.smartschoolsnetwork.org), teachers were able to come in and learn how to they could use the arts inside their classrooms. Catherine: And… I’m driving, three months later, hearing that they made robots like this. Enhanced Transcript.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Understand how to start and run an organization. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Value innovation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We need to teach people how to think. I can have shingles popping off my roof and a hammer and nail sitting on my kitchen table, but if I don’t know how to get on the roof and hammer in that nail, my roof is going to leak.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

“I think there is a great partnership possible between the Maker movement and California’s community colleges,” says Dale Dougherty, Founder and CEO of. Maker Media. This movement brings tremendous opportunities to students who discover a passion for learning and meet the challenges of turning new ideas into something real.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up. He’s the robot there. And that’s how I feel about when student connect on Skype. You basically make a Valentine with your class.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

NASA Robotic Lesson Plans – Some wonderful lesson ideas that cover all grade levels to engage students. Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success. How about allowing students to create games in the non-digital world, like using cardboard and markers?

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Now that in this information age content is freely and abundantly available, it is more important than ever to assist learners in the process of how to learn. It is a mistaken assumption that educators know how to do so. As such, I am learning how they work. Educator as Model Learner ). Educators as Lead Learners ). Iterations.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

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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Saving Socrates

APRIL 29, 2014

I must confess, I myself am really into the whole maker movement. While I certainly don''t think we can spend a great deal of any school time teaching kids how to knit, I do think the new technologies like robotics and 3d printing are under tapped in elementary schools. Makerspaces are all the rage right now.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

A GIANT FIGHTING ROBOT SPORTS LEAGUE might sound like a Michael Bay movie, but at Maker Faire, we learned transformers could be tomorrow’s ESPN hit. The team of engineers made a compelling case for their futuristic sport at Maker Faire, where they debuted the 12-ton, 430-horsepower Mk. FIRE EATERS? Yep, they were there too.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

I expected to find a decent number of articles on this topic, but became a bit dismayed on how few I found. One article that did stand out for me was by Sylvia Martinez’s Edsurge piece, Making for All: How to Build an Inclusive Makerspace (but it’s from 2015). Don’t advantage one kind of building over another.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. Explore ways to bring design, computational thinking, coding, robotics, electronics, engineering, and other elements of making into the regular classroom day in support of academic standards across the school in every subject.

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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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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Parents were emailing me stating how proud they were of their child’s efforts and creativity. Ethan taught himself how to use Sketch Up to make a 3D rendering of a fort he wants to build in his backyard. Many parents even took an active role in this month-long homework assignment that came to be known as The Passion Project.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I Today's children as they grow up are going to face a never-ending stream of unknown and uncertain situations.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

As you are probably already aware, there is a growing Maker Movement across the nation. In fact, you can see Maker Spaces finding room to serve the surging Maker population in both small and large towns alike. Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success.

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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. She spent her free time in class looking up how to set up lead magnets and create funnels for an email list. She had a maker mindset.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2015

With the maker movement in schools in full force across the country, it seems like students everywhere are excited and interested in learning about programming, electronics, robotics, and more. How can these two ideas be melded together to create a stellar learning experience?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Another group discovers that if they hit “repeat” multiple times, they can create a parachute-like design that they’ve figured out how to color in various ways. We still don’t know how to use [it] very well,” Guadalupe admits. He’s been coaching teachers on how to incorporate “making” into their curriculum when it’s appropriate.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In many schools, the library is the only haven for self-directed, informal, life-wide learning–the place to go when a student just wants to know more about or know how to do. The action in our huge open technology wing engaged kids in robotics and coding and CAD and now, 3D printing. robotics teachers (OMG! cartooning spaces.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM. Tune in live at [link] or [link].

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. If you’re interested in transforming your own community into a citywide campus for learning, you can find out more information on how to do that at the Cities of Learning website.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Along the way, they were learning how to create basic and more advanced circuits. This taps into the maker movement in a deep way,” Cole explained. It’s accessible in a different way than something like robotics or code wars.”. Photo/ Maker Jawn, Philadelphia Free Library. It’s what shop classes were years ago.”.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. If you’re interested in transforming your own community into a citywide campus for learning, you can find out more information on how to do that at the Cities of Learning website.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Maker Movement. General insecurity or misunderstanding about how to meaningfully integrate technology in the classroom. Robotics in the classroom. Change in cultural perception of identity–gender, technology, science, faith, sexuality, etc. Change in credibility of a high school diploma or college degree.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Along the way, they were learning how to create basic and more advanced circuits. This taps into the maker movement in a deep way,” Cole explained. It’s accessible in a different way than something like robotics or code wars.” We wanted to help them become hands-on creators instead of just artistic consumers,” Dick said.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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