Students Design, Tinker, Create and Discover through Maker-based Learning | NextGen Lea... - 1 views
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The nature of maker-based learning actively engages students, nurtures their agency, improves efficacy, and develops a creator or producer identity instead of a (passive) consumer one.
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In Thomas’ experience, too many people fail to reflect on WHY they’re choosing certain tools, and HOW those tools will be integrated into the curriculum and culture of school.
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Sometimes the impetus for making is a practical problem. Other times, play, curiosity and imagination are the motivators. Regardless, researchers from Harvard's Project Zero agree, "maker experiences help students learn to pursue their own passions and become self-directed learners, proactively seeking out knowledge and resources on their own" (Agency by Design, p. 3). HT Parker Thomas
Why Empathy Holds the Key to Transforming 21st Century Learning | MindShift | KQED News - 2 views
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Empathy has the potential to open up students to deeper learning, drive clarity of thinking, and inspire engagement with the world—in other words, provide the emotional sustenance for outstanding human performance.
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Empathy lies at the heart of 21st century skillfulness in teamwork, collaboration and communication in a diverse world.
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The frontal lobes of the brain, at least as much as we know now, are the seat of planning, execution, problem solving and creativity—and when the frontal lobes are working well, so are we.
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What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular? | Interaction Design Foundation - 1 views
'Maker' movement inspires hands-on learning | The Seattle Times - 0 views
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Tinkering is being promoted on college campuses from MIT to Santa Clara University, as well as in high schools and elementary schools.
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The blending of technology and craft in tools like 3-D printers and laser cutters has made it possible for ordinary people to make extraordinary things. And many ordinary people, living as they do, more and more in their heads and online, are yearning to do something with their hands.
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Constructionist Approach
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A fabulous article full of stories about the impact of maker-centered learning experiences, and the growing number of places that provide them - elementary schools, high school, colleges, public. Perhaps most gratifying is the use of distinctly maker-centered AND educational terminology in the same article. A great sign of things to come!
How Engineering Class in 9th Grade Can Excite Diverse Learners | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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Engineering has been getting a lot of attention because of its real-world applications and clear job prospects, but learning to think like an engineer could be useful no matter what students decide to pursue for work
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all ninth-graders
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I felt like I didn’t know how to make enough stuff,”
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5 Things I Learnt as a Designer at LEGO - 0 views
The future of design thinking | ING DIRECT: Being human in a digital world | The Guardian - 0 views
Pop Up and Make: Student-Designed and Facilitated Makerspaces | Edutopia - 0 views
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received funds to design and implement pop-up makerspaces during the 2015-16 school year. These makerspaces include the 3D Fabrication Lab, Upcycling Shop, Music and Beat-Making Studio, Robotics and Hacking Space, Digital Storytelling Workshop, and Clothing and Fashion Design Closet.
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Each makerspace "pops up" in either a classroom, computer lab, commons area, or the cafeteria during the school's Smart Block, an open period for eating lunch, attending academic sessions, practicing sports and music -- and now for making things
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Fifteen students joined the event to make, co-develop, plan, and become Maker Mentors.
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