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MIT’s Mitch Resnick on What ‘Toy Story’ Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

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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 We started the online class for the first time a few years ago when MOOCs were becoming population.

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Get ready to Make/Hack/Play!

Educator Innovator

The Making Learning Connected MOOC (clmooc) that happened this summer was a great experience for me and for many others. This will be a short 3-week introduction to the maker movement for educators. Participants will be able to choose from a wide variety of real-world and digital projects to make.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

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In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. In Chicago , it might mean doing some urban camping with the Chicago Park District or stargazing at the Adler Planetarium.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. The MOOC is nonsequential, so anyone can join at any time. In Chicago , it might mean doing some urban camping with the Chicago Park District or stargazing at the Adler Planetarium.

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Get ready to Make/Hack/Play!

Educator Innovator

The Making Learning Connected MOOC (clmooc) that happened this summer was a great experience for me and for many others. This will be a short 3-week introduction to the maker movement for educators. Participants will be able to choose from a wide variety of real-world and digital projects to make.

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10 Experts’ Predictions for Education and Technology in 2016

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Some hot topics will be virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing, coding and the maker movement. We will see more and more educational MOOC platforms to replace classroom training, as they afford users universal access to knowledge. What this means to me is that some 30,000 schools need to be transformed.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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.; Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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