Empowerment is a key goal of maker-centered learning — helping young people feel that they can build and shape their worlds. That sense of “maker empowerment” arises when students learn to notice and engage with their physical and conceptual environments, the report states. To encourage that heightened sensitivity, educators should provide opportunities for students to:
look closely and reflect on the design of objects and systems;
explore the complexity of design;
and understand themselves as designers of their worlds.
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Life of an Educator: 10 images to share at your next faculty meeting: Part 2 - 5 views
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"I received a lot of positive feedback from the first 10 images I shared, so feel free to check out part 1 here."
Kleinspiration: How To Take the "Guess Work" Out of "Group Work" to Encourage Project B... - 2 views
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"This year, I'm excited to start using Ignite Teaching with my class. This is one tool I know we can use throughout the year, across all subjects, in a variety of creative ways. Any tool that allows students to create, collaborate, and share is always a favorite in our class. One of my favorite parts is that I will also be able to see their work in progress as they collaborate with one another, and I'll be able to offer feedback along the way. "
What We Learn from Making | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 2 views
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But as a new report from Project Zero’s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.
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In a white paper [PDF] marking the end of its second year, Agency by Design (AbD) finds that among the benefits that may accrue along the maker ed path, the most striking is the sense of inspiration that students take away — a budding understanding of themselves as actors in their community, empowered “to engage with and shape the designed dimensions of their worlds.”
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"What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? It's often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation - and it is probably both of these. But as a new report from Project Zero's Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution. "
Digital Storytelling: What's Your Story? - EDUSPIRE - 0 views
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We all have a story to tell, and so do your students! From your Kindergartener's weekend birthday party to your 12th grader's Senior Prom, your students want to talk and share. 21st century learning and the Common Core State Standards encourage today's students to move beyond basic telling and writing to recording, publishing, tweeting and blogging.
Learning from History - 1 views
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There is an innate beauty and wonder in History. How might we ensure students receive the maximum benefit from their study of History? How do we encourage them to see History as more than content?
iPaddling through Fourth Grade-Encourage...Engage...Enlighten...Empower: Coding in the ... - 0 views
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"Over the course of the weeks not only did my students learn how to code, but they learned so many important life-skills. Students participated in "Plugged" and Unplugged" activities. Months ago, I took a code.org class which was a turning point in my "World of Code". With some guidance and little help, my students began their journey into coding and programming. What did my students learn? Persistence Collaboration Problem Solving Logical Reasoning Critical Thinking Cause and Effect Being Inquisitive Communication Skills Having Fun "
Blogging to Improve Student Learning: Tips and Tools for Getting Started - 8 views
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I instead encourage faculty to start by adding a blog to their class. A blog can be set up in minutes and is easy to learn and maintain. Plus, there are a variety of studies proving that blogging can improve educational outcomes. For instance:
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students post their written work to a blog before handing it in. The students received comments from other students and even faculty at other institutions, which improved their work greatly.
Mind Over Mass Media| The Committed Sardine - 1 views
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NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
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Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain. Speed-reading programs have long claimed to do just that, but the verdict was rendered by Woody Allen after he read “War and Peace” in one sitting: “It was about Russia.” Genuine multitasking, too, has been exposed as a myth, not just by laboratory studies but by the familiar sight of an S.U.V. undulating between lanes as the driver cuts deals on his cellphone.
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And to encourage intellectual depth, don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate.
5 Steps to Increasing Teacher Technology Integration | #Edchat Recap - 9 views
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Lead by Example
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Change the Face of your Professional Development
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Encourage Your Teachers to Build a Professional Learning Network
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"5 Steps to Increasing Teacher Technology Integration | #Edchat Recap"
Developing a 'Tech Bill of Rights' -- THE Journal - 3 views
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"Youth Safety on a Living Internet" report said that parents and teachers should "promote online citizenship and media-literacy education, and actively encourage the children's participation in the process..... Teaching children civil, respectful behavior online and offline is the key to fostering a safe Internet environment," the group stated in its report,
Education Week: Research Shows Evolving Picture of E-Education - 0 views
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Online classes may be a relatively young instructional practice for K-12 schools, but experts already generally agree on one point: Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools.
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Studies of state-run virtual schools show, for instance, that the courses tend to draw students at the extremes of the academic spectrum—advanced, highly motivated students looking for academic acceleration, and students who are struggling in regular classrooms
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Not surprisingly, the students with the best academic records in online classes tend to be in that high-ability group, according to experts in the field. But some new research also finds that online courses are beginning to score more successes with the lowest achievers—possibly because many are high school students who see the online courses as a last chance to earn enough credits to graduate.
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Online classes may be a relatively young instructional practice for K-12 schools, but experts already generally agree on one point: Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick-and-mortar schools.
Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Download a la Mode: Netbooks Go Viral - 0 views
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The best option, of course, is professional development on the use of a netbook for staff and students (these are so inexpensive that I have no doubt that Parent-Teacher Organizations will want to buy them for students to use in and out of school; I've already had one request for this!). Some quick ideas:Pass out USB Flash drives with anti-malware/anti-viral free tools that can be installed. Passing out USB Flash drives with the school logo and contact information, maybe a web site address to find more tools and tips online, can be a positive way to interact with your audience. Some districts are getting custom USB drives from providers like PexagonTech.com (http://pexagontech.com) or Ram-It.com (http://tinyurl.com/cmkzum).Or, if you rather not use USB solutions, start setting your students up with digital lockers using solutions like Xythos.com, Gaggle.net, or Acma.com.Schedule a "Bring Your Netbook to School" Night and encourage safe computing.
education2020 » home - 0 views
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The main aim of this wiki is to create and encourage a dialogue around what education should look like in the year 2020. We firmly believe that this wiki should be centred around debate, discussion, sharing of ideas, and exchanging viewpoints - the more diverse and controversial, the better!
K12 Online Conference 2009 | Using Web 2.0 Tools to Teach 'The Outsiders' - 7 views
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use of stupeflix, google streetview to encourage English as additional language learners to write
Let's Stop Making Students Power Down at School - 3 views
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As an educator of innovative educators, I urge you to remember these students, their voices, their passions and don’t force students to power down when they come to school. Encourage and embrace their excitement, their passions, their enthusiasm, their need for socializing and authenticity. Help make school a place your students want to be, discover, grow, learn and share.
Big City - 2 Days With No Text Messages for Riverdale Students - NYTimes.com - 5 views
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"Encouraging the Text Generation to Rediscover Its Voice"
Please Stop Thinking About Tomorrow : Stager-to-Go - 1 views
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Suggestions for school improvement: smaller classes a curriculum related to real life better teacher education teachers make room in the curriculum for the folk-tales of children’s ancestors parents encouraged to visit the school more intimate contact with people outside of school and cooperating with the entire neighborhood
A Box? Or a Spaceship? What Makes Kids Creative - WSJ.com - 5 views
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Researchers believe growth in the time kids spend on computers and watching TV, plus a trend in schools toward rote learning and standardized testing, are crowding out the less structured activities that foster creativity. Mark Runco, a professor of creative studies and gifted education at the University of Georgia, says students have as much creative potential as ever, but he would give U.S. elementary, middle and high schools "a 'D' at best" on encouraging them. "We're doing a very poor job, especially before college, with recognizing and supporting creativity," he says.
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