Four Take-Home Makerspaces Under $100
Whether school is face-to-face or remote, it’s now possible for students to use low-cost take home makerspaces 24/7!
Tag: STEAM
Funding Opportunity for CMK – Deadline January 30th!
We have learned a few lessons from thirteen years of running Constructing Modern Knowledge. Empowered educators, empower children. Educators are capable, competent, and creative. Modern knowledge construction is impossible without access to traditional materials, books, tools, supplies, andcutting-edge technology. Educators profit …
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Program your Own Gameboy!
In 1971, Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon authored a prescient paper, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer. The ways in which my friends suggested using computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self expression remain sadly elusive in too …
Invent to Learn Workshop – Southern California
Full-day hands-on workshop with Sylvia Martinezco-author of Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom November 7, 2019Hosted by Viewpoint School Make & learn in this cutting-edge workshop! Join colleagues for a day of hard fun, creativity, and problem solving—where computing meets tinkering, design, and the best practices …
Hello World Magazine’s Review of The Art of Digital Fabrication
Hello World magazine recently reviewed Erin Riley’s fantastic new book, The Art of Digital Fabrication: STEAM Projects for the Makerspace and Art Studio, published by CMK Press. Read the review here.
Hello World Magazine’s Review of Invent to Learn, Second Edition
Read the review of the newly expanded edition of Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom from Hello World magazine here. Buy the book
The Subtlety of Prompt Setting
In Chapter Four of our new book, Invent to Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, we discuss the importance of prompt setting as a basis for project-based learning. I argue that “a good prompt is worth 1,000 …
Invent to Learn 2019 Texas Workshop Tour
Full-day hands-on making, coding, and physical computing workshops with Dr. Gary Stager & Sylvia Martinez – authors of Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom 2019 Texas TourDallas/Fort Worth – April 8San Antonio – April 9Austin – April 11Houston – April 12 Code, invent, & learn in this cutting-edge …
New! Second Edition of Invent to Learn Released
We are excited to announce that a newly revised and expanded edition of Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom has just been released. It’s been five years since we published the first edition of Invent to Learn. …
Gary Stager Cairo Keynote
Following speaking at the prestigious WISE Conference in Qatar (November 2017), Gary Stager delivered a keynote address on learning-by making at a conference held at The American University in Cairo. The video is finally available.