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What Really Engages Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Wolpert-Gawron talks about current research From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Heather Wolpert-Gawron surveyed over two thousand students from every US state and type of school to find out what engages them in learning.

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Futurizing the Stacks: How Makerspaces Can Modernize College Libraries

Edsurge

The answer, in part, lies in the so-called maker movement, a trend studded by hobbyists, inventors, students and even entrepreneurs who creates products or gadgets for educational or industrial purposes. In a report that analyzed the state of the maker movement in 40 U.S.

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What Libraries Offer the Maker Movement

Educator Innovator

Receiving a grant for a 3D printer, the staff designed their maker programming entirely around the new tool. But Runyan doubted the users of the library, if surveyed, would have picked 3D printing as their preferred form of making. She tries to check the pulse of the community to see what projects make the most sense.

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What Motivates Maker Educators?

Edsurge

Here’s an interactive map that pinpoints where each survey respondent hails from. Based on interviews with nearly three dozen community leaders, along with a survey of 492 people in Maker Ed’s online educator network, researchers found that nearly half of the respondents worked in a K-12 setting.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

They may interview, do observations or survey them about the problem. The UDL connection involves learners having options for sustaining effort and persistence by fostering collaboration and community. This phase is where learners gain an understanding of the needs of specific people about a problem from their perspective.

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What is STEM?

My Paperless Classroom

If you read a survey of blogs about STEM education you will read about everything from boat design to making ice cream. As the tech teacher I view the interest in STEM is an invitation into science and math class. This isn''t about introducing math worksheets after the science vocab review.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

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