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Middle Grades Makers: Invent to Learn | MiddleWeb - 0 views

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  • julie balen on 30 Jun 13
     
    Focus is middle school. Good resources listed at end. 
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STEM Curriculum Resources by Dr. Wesley Fryer - 0 views

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  • Diana Rendina on 30 Jan 15
     
    This is an AMAZING collection of STEM and MakerEd resources from Dr. Wesley Fryer. He has everything divided by topic, with lots of links and videos.
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Why I Am Not a Maker - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on an entire identity, rather than to express a facet of your own identity ("maker," rather than "someone who makes things").
  • There’s a widespread idea that “People who make things are simply different [read: better] than those who don’t.”
  • Making things is incredibly important, especially for groups that previously haven’t had access.
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  • The problem is the idea that the alternative to making is usually not doing nothing
  • what I do (teaching) for what I’m actually trying to help elicit (learning)
  • Or, worse, if you say that I "make" other people, you are diminishing their agency and role in sense-making, as if their learning is something I do to them.
  • there's still this stigma that feels like it attaches to those-who-don’t-make
  • Rather, I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others—above all, the caregivers—whose work isn’t about something you can put in a box and sell.
  • Diana Rendina on 31 Jan 15
     
    Amazing, thought provoking article engineering professor Debbie Chachra on why we need to be cautious about insisting on people identifiying themselves by what they make.  While I don't necessarily agree that encouraging people to make things devalues education and caregiving, it is a valid criticism to think about.
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FabLearn Digital Fabrication in Education - 0 views

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  • Diana Rendina on 16 Jul 16
     
    Stanford's amazing FabLearn program is full of resources for maker educators.
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