Neo LMS

JUNE 15, 2017

These days even goliaths like GE (General Electric) are appreciating the rapid popularity of the maker movement, and the consequent commercial benefits of maker spaces. Combined with technologies like 3D printing the future of a bespoke, individualised manufacturing industry is getting closer by the day.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

But as a new report from Project Zero ’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution. offer more maker-related professional development experiences for educators.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You know the maker movement has hit the big leagues when even the President is talking about it. Earlier this year, for the National Week of Making, President Obama issued a call to action to educators, designers, and makers of all stripes. Where do the maker movement and history intersect? history lesson?

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 8, 2016

On Tuesday, I’ll be moderating a discussion at the conference with Ayah Bdeir, the founder and CEO of littleBits, about trends in the maker movement and how her company has evolved to try to tailor its products to meet K-12 demands. Educators can also get ideas through a mobile app.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

She has a real interest in fashion, would love to be in the fashion industry. Example #3: A student designing fashion in VR. A third kid was using a VR technology that allowed her to design clothes. She’s in there.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But it nonetheless embodies what Dale Dougherty, the “father” of the movement, sees as literally the “moral imperative” of the maker movement: “to use our creative freedom to make the future better, to be hands-on in making change, and to get everyone participating fully in that future.”.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

CWIST is a leader in providing content and an online platform for the maker movement. CWIST’s platform brings maker-inspired products to students, schools and consumers, nationwide. As the industry leader in Connected Toys, we are defining the future of fun. Playtime just got real.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community. I hear this need for creative critical thinkers repeatedly from industry leaders in every sector. We began to see our role as talent generator and economic engine to grow our small town.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2015

Thornburg, co-author of “The Invent to Learn Guide to 3D Printing in the Classroom,” said he would not recommend one specific 3D printer for classroom use because the constant advancement in the 3D printing industry can make choosing the best models a “moving target.”. Next page: Our 7 education-focused printers.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Collectively the project was made up of more than 80,000 bricks weighing nearly 150 pounds, and its total setup at Maker Faire took nearly 10 hours to complete. GLASS BLOWERS AND BLACKSMITHS from Oakland-based industrial arts school the Crucible were welding, hammering and firing away outside the expo hall.

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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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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. But no matter how diverse their industries will be, our students will all someday face a common reality. They will need to have a maker mindset.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Construct3D 2017 conference will be a meeting of educators, pioneers, and industry leaders who actively use 3D printing in their work, with the aim of highlighting and cultivating the role of this technology as it contributes to academic and research achievement. will present the Informal Educator Keynote.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Wednesday, March 12th at 9am PDT in Seattle, WA Maker Movement at NCCE 2014 with Sylvia Martinez, Join colleagues for a day of hard fun and problem solving — where computing meets tinkering and design. And Kirsten Winkler speculates about the economic effect of the Kahn Academy / College Board partnership on the test-prep industry.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” Maker Movement.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 20, 2015

MakerBot, a global leader in the desktop 3D printing industry, conducted in-depth research this spring to better understand how to help educators incorporate 3D printing in classrooms [2]. Nasdaq: SSYS), is leading the Next Industrial Revolution by setting the standards in reliable and affordable desktop 3D printing. BROOKLYN , N.Y.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 8, 2015

We may be seeing the same cycle play out in the maker movement. Which we found out as free turned to paid, and as companies struggled, offerings changed, and created content disappeared. We all need to survive and to provide, and we can make conscious choices about what role we allow for money in education conversations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

Our products are research-based and developed for various audiences: youth, college students, the research community, policy makers, or workers in a particular industry. Three Steps for Improving Students'' Self-Reliance in Learning. Karen Cameron shares the Praise, Prompt, and Leave strategy in this week''s post.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

Authentic Learning: As with any changing industry, there are many problems standing in the way of effective technology implementation. BYOD/Maker Movement: In just one or two years, experts predict Bring Your Own Device policies and makerspaces will be commonplace in schools. CHALLENGES. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2015

’ “In many ways it’s very connected to the maker movement, but there is more of an intentional focus on some of the skills connected to engineering, electrical engineering and more of an intentional draw back to math concepts,” said Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy for the museum.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Let’s examine four key trends that are expected to shape the education industry this coming year: 1. Maker spaces will gain popularity in K-12 schools in the U.S. schools will give way to an increased focus on STEM and coding in schools, reinvigorating the “maker movement.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’d add too that this is a problem with tech more broadly – an astounding and even self-congratulatory ignorance of the history of the industries, institutions, practices folks claim they’re disrupting.). The “maker movement.” Collaboration. Personalization. Problem-solving. Self-directed learning.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 11, 2016

On the first day of March Maker Madness, I witnessed the makeover of a traditional industrial shop class into a 21st Century MakerSpace. The Toms River School District was fortunate enough to get funding from Office Depot to help them redesign their traditional industrial classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 15, 2015

There's a movement to take library spaces and turn them into proactive, creation-facilitating, "maker spaces." I like proactivity, I like creation, and I like the maker movement. I know, you're thinking: really ? The full statement is a must read.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. For the past decade, I've churned out a multi-part series on the dominant trends and narratives. So much innovation and “edsurgency.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). The Maker Movement. Data vs Privacy. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. The Maker Movement. Investment dollars were down, if nothing else. Data vs Privacy. The Business of Ed-tech.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Sheninger begins the book with a clear description of the challenges schools face today, sharing the importance in changing from the industrial-age, compliancy model to a learning model where relevant, authentic opportunities, while uncommon at first, will become common as our school cultures shift. Makerspaces.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Sheninger begins the book with a clear description of the challenges schools face today, sharing the importance in changing from the industrial-age, compliancy model to a learning model where relevant, authentic opportunities, while uncommon at first, will become common as our school cultures shift. Makerspaces.

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