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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.

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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

embracing the maker movement as part of the Future Ready Librarians initiative, it was only natural to work with Digital Promise, a leader in national conversations about maker education and micro-credentials , to create an innovative professional learning tool for librarians. With teacher librarians across the U.S.

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FETC Future of Educational Technology… Orlando Florida… Please Join Me!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

You will be involved in the opportunity to choose from 600+ learning opportunities that best meet your needs specific to your role in leading the digital transformation — with basic to advanced sessions in 5 program tracks. Most of all I would like to meet you and hope to see you at one of my workshops or session. Administrator.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

Formative assessment is key. Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. Also see Better Teaching and Learning with Formative Assessment from Advancement Courses. Edpuzzle adds formative assessment and shows us the percentage of the video watched by students.

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Striving to be a Strong Digital Leader

Fractus Learning

Whether it is collaborating on agendas for our meetings, presentations for the school, or a curation of resources for the staff, GAFE has changed the game for us. We want our students to collaborate on projects in real-time, or we want our staff to collaborate on assessments and lessons together. Maker Movement.

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15 Ideas To Go Beyond Makers Space… Building a Makers Culture

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I would enjoy meeting you! C206: PBL, STEM, and Makers Dewey Meets Technology: What Will You Do? Embracing a Maker Culture can take the standards in our curriculum and make them come alive as students practice the 4 C’s, venture to the top of Blooms, and experience the real depth found in Webb’s.

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13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years

TeachThought - Learn better.

Though that balance tends more towards literacy than it does in most high schools, this minor adjustment is insufficient to meet the needs of a modern world. Connectivity could represent a new kind of assessment. Rather than measurement, true assessment is the process of uncovering understanding. Which is bad.