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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. professional learning and new learning experiences. Professional Learning and New Learning Experiences.

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Foster Social-Emotional Learning through Making

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. This cohort program is dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Maker learning is more than just making “stuff.”

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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

This micro-credential focuses on how Future Ready Librarians “encourage and facilitate students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic real-world problem solving.” Lessons Learned. With teacher librarians across the U.S.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

But really, they’re interdisciplinary, promoting important educational principles such as inquiry, play, imagination, innovation, critical thinking , problem solving and passion-based learning. They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

In addition, Mandy supports professional learning as Director of the Collaborate, Inspire & Innovate Conference in Ripon, WI, as well as her Organizer and Public Relations Coordinator roles for edCamp Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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5 Ways to Reach Even Resistant Writers with Writer’s Workshop

The CoolCatTeacher

Check out the show notes for the book giveaway, Make Writing: Five Teaching Strategies That Turn Writer’s Workshop Into a Maker Space. Angela Stockman facilitates professional learning experiences for K-12 literacy teachers within and beyond her home state of New York. So many great ideas! Thank you, Angela! Angela Stockman.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

Edsurge

For more strategies about harnessing technology for deeper learning, listen to the EdSurge podcast featuring edtech expert and author Scott McLeod. Eager to see 21st century learning in action? Getting Smart offers suggestions for using school visits as a springboard for professional learning, including a list of recommended sites.