October is Connected Educator Month! The US Department of Education is sponsoring the second annual Connected Educator Month (CEM). There will be online events all month for educators to connect and collaborate! The Connected Educator website has all the details. …
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In 1999, Seymour Papert, the father of educational technology, embarked on his last ambitious institutional research project when he created the constructionist, technology-rich, project-based, multi-aged Constructionist Learning Laboratory inside of Maine’s troubled prison for teens, The Maine Youth Center. The story …
In Making the future: Why we need to help kids make stuff, blogger extraordinaire Anne Collier lays out the case to parents about making, playing, and why it matters. Anne runs NetFamilyNews.org, which provides parents information about technology without the usual …
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Watch Gary and Sylvia take the Innovation Stage at MakerFaire New York 2013! Making the Case for Making in Schools from Maker Faire on FORA.tv Making the Case for Making in Schools (30 minute video) Why can’t school be more …
Many aspects of the best makerspaces already exist in school libraries: * Librarians and LMS’s are experts in finding resources and connecting them with kids and teachers who need them. * Libraries are community spaces that offer learning outside classroom …
The Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference is the world’s first massively open online conference for educators which focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more. The conference will be held online, around the clock, over the course of three days, September 19 …
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From School Library Journal: Science Learning | A Medley of Resources For anyone interested in learning more about the maker movement in education, this is an excellent starting point. Innovative educators,Stager, Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium, and Martinez, President of Generation YES, …
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This month in HaYidion, the magazine of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, Gary and I wrote an article called What Schools Can Learn from the Maker Movement. Here’s a bit of it. Kid makers possess a skill set and self-efficacy that …
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Remake Learning is the blog of the Pittsburgh Kids and Creativity Network. In The Maker Movement Finds its Way into Pittsburgh Classrooms, they say, “The school library might not be the most obvious place to find kids building robots. But this year, Miriam …
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