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What You Might Have Missed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

EdTech Magazine

By Meg Conlan This weekend’s event highlighted student innovations and offered resources for educators looking to bring the Maker movement to their schools.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech. I’ve also seen it used kind of in the same way as a sports magazine, it was a sports literature course that was using it. The students were creating the sports…like an ESPN type magazine in FlipSnack. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, scroll down.

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

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But despite the work of on-the-ground educators like Day and Taylor, the maker movement in K-12 schools is far from perfect. What does it really take, for example, to diversify the communities of maker educators and mentors out there? How people see themselves or can see themselves in this movement is really, really huge.

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A Call to Remake the Maker Faire

Edsurge

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

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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5 Ideas for Friday: Ideas for Teachers In and Out of School to Try Today

The CoolCatTeacher

If you really want to have fun, have a student bring in a superhero outfit and follow the instructions in Videomaker magazine to do something super-awesome. See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). If you’re wondering, chroma key is the technique used to put an actor in front of a background anywhere. (

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Learning in the Making: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator

User Generated Education

As a curator, the maker educator locates and vets resources, especially those that will be used by younger students. These resources can include YouTube videos; tutorials from companies such as Spark- fun, Make: Magazine, Instructables, and Adafruit; relevant books and magazines; social media accounts and hashtags (e.g., #mak-

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