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Jill Bergeron

Gateway - Curriculum | Project Lead The Way - 0 views

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  • Jill Bergeron on 25 Oct 14
     
    STEM curriculum with professional development options.
Jill Bergeron

Make the Most of the Maker Movement | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • To realize the opportunity that the maker movement offers education, students need room for self-directed learning and interdisciplinary problem solving.
  • While setting up spaces for hands-on tinkering, schools also need to make mental space for creativity, risk taking, and learning from failure. Those qualities are central to maker culture, but still rare in too many school settings.
  • More important than gaining access to expensive tools is learning how to turn raw ideas into prototypes that can be tested, refined, and improved through feedback.
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  • Students who gravitate toward an engineering or STEM approach to problem solving may get fresh ideas from watching artists work out solutions (and visa versa). Collaboration is more likely to happen when thinking and tinkering take place in the open.
  • If you're interested in seeing a school makerspace in action, check out this curated list from Bob Pearlman
  • Encourage students to tell the stories behind their ideas and describe the process that took them from inspiration to finished product.
  • parents team up with their children for monthly Maker Saturdays.
  • Maker Education Initiative maintains a resource library, including sample projects.
  • Jill Bergeron on 08 Dec 14
     
    Resources about in this article which emphasizes skills over stuff when it comes to making.
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