The CoolCatTeacher
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Listen to Heather Wolpert-Gawron Talk about Student Engagement Research Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. She is the author of Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement (Corwin/AMLE), which shares the results of a nationwide survey of 6th-12th graders and what engages them as learners.
Battelle for Kids
AUGUST 10, 2015
Driving Question: How does 'making" inspire student engagement and interest? My own children, as well as the students at my school, have had very different childhood experiences. Enter the Maker Movement: a global community of DIY (Do It Yourself) problem sovleres and innovators who collaborate and share ideas online.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
The answer, in part, lies in the so-called maker movement, a trend studded by hobbyists, inventors, students and even entrepreneurs who creates products or gadgets for educational or industrial purposes. In a report that analyzed the state of the maker movement in 40 U.S.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
This post is part of a series in which we frame maker learning in terms of three core values — Agency , Authenticity , and Audience — as the key components to creating the highest quality making experiences for learning. One way to embed audience in maker learning projects is through the practice of human-centered design or design thinking.
Marketplace K-12
APRIL 27, 2016
The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.
The CoolCatTeacher
JANUARY 8, 2018
They want to know that students engagement is high. But they also want to know that students are going to do well on a test. The big thing that they’ll say is, “Ooh, I’m only a student teacher. I did get the chance to be a Tech Coach and work kind of on that level, and now I’m at the university. The same fears crop up.
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
Vicki: Yeah, you know, teacher engagement comes before student engagement, doesn’t it? And start with THAT to send out the energy not just from you, but then it just starts to absorb within your kids and your classroom. Things can just take off from there. Aaron: Yes, yes, absolutely.
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