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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

As the leadership team of Duquesne City School District balances its budget, impactful maker learning spaces and experiences for all students are serving as the cornerstone of what can be called the district’s rebirth. Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. Responsible Fiscal Stewardship.

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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Invent to Learn by Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager. Download the Transcript. Sylvia Martinez.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

But then also giving them a couple chances at maybe making a few of those beginner mistakes and getting a little goofy, and then, “Get it out of your system, because this is for a grade.”. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. So that’s my Go To robot.

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Why Making and the Arts Need Each Other to Survive and Thrive in Schools

Edsurge

Conditions in society’s economic and technological spheres, however—at levels from local to global—have amped up stresses on our schooling systems more than ever before as we work within the confines of time. My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

And meanwhile the sixth graders had a health unit where they had to learn about body systems, how a disease or an issue could attack the body, and what you could do – either medically or the body would do to defeat that health system. Catherine: And… I’m driving, three months later, hearing that they made robots like this.

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CA's Maker Initiative Spurs Innovation and Workforce Development Across 35 Community Colleges

Edsurge

Doing What MATTERS for Jobs and the Economy initiative and the Strong Workforce Taskforce recommendations, the CCC Maker Initiative will expand on the making that is already happening in colleges around the state and then use its cross-sector network to onboard additional colleges interested in supporting making in their region. Maker Media.

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Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Applications Open Now #steam

The CoolCatTeacher

Designed and built a robotic car seat to alert adults when children are left in hot cars. Created a low-cost wildlife detection system to alert drivers of animals crossing the road and mitigate accidents. Developed a drone-powered spraying system to target weeds and use fewer chemicals on crops. Project Overview. Beebe, Ark.

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