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MIT’s Mitch Resnick on What ‘Toy Story’ Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

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To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I I think it's really important to move away from this dichotomy of either you're learning things, or you're playing.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

This summer, cities are connecting those opportunities in new ways for kids through the Cities of Learning initiative. In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. Your learning will be directed by you.” But the kids don’t get to have all the fun.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Yildiz, Global Scholar STEM is Elementary - Sara Hunter, STEM Coach Using MathPickle Puzzles to Give the Gifts of Failure and Success - Dr.

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30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. Maker Movement. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. by Terry Heick.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

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Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers".