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Challenge Based Learning in Makerspaces - @DianaLRendina

Challenge Based Learning in Makerspaces - @DianaLRendina | Daring Ed Tech | Scoop.it
Design challenges have the power to encourage creativity in your students – by providing limitations and guidelines, students can actually become more creative. Learn strategies for creating design prompts, running challenges and incorporating the design process into projects with your students. We’ll discuss how to create open-ended challenges and material-specific challenges in a way that will maximize your students’ creativity, as well as how to create passive design challenges that require minimal supervision. We’ll talk about some of the problems that educators face when running challenges, how to help your students focus, and balancing guided projects, design challenges and open-ended exploration. Whether you’ve had a makerspace up and running for years or are just getting started with the Maker Movement, you will leave this session feeling equipped to lead your students through design challenges that will spark their creative genius.

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Read. Question. Think. With These 4 Free Amazing Posters From Andrea Beaty!

Read. Question. Think. With These 4 Free Amazing Posters From Andrea Beaty! | Daring Ed Tech | Scoop.it
Ada Twist, Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere are three of my favorite children's book characters.  They are from my friend and amazing author
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GREAT FREE Posters by @andreabeaty

And yes, Girls can do ANYthing!

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Situating Makerspaces in Schools

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America’s obsession with STEM is dangerous, Fareed Zakaria warns us, and our hunch is that most readers of Hybrid Pedagogy would tend to agree. We, Colin and Josh, certainly do....

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Maker Marvelous: Book Page Pumpkins

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Hey dear readers, Gwyneth here!  I haven't had a guest post in 7 or so years, but I thought this was such a great idea I begged my dea
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Maker Marvelous: Book Page Pumpkins a NEW Guest Post with @hcpsslibmed Teacher Librarian, dear friend, & former student teacher: @L4librarian!

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How to Create a Makerspace -- Campus Technology

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"Making" experts share the basics of building spaces for collaboration, innovation and hands-on learning.

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Libraries and Makerspaces: a match made in heaven

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Every discussion of libraries in the age of austerity always includes at least one blowhard who opines, "What do we need libraries for? We've got the Internet now!"


Facepalm.


The problem is that Mr. Blowhard has confused a library with a book depository. Now, those are useful, too, but a library isn't just (or even necessarily) a place where you go to get books for free. Public libraries have always been places where skilled information professionals assisted the general public with the eternal quest to understand the world. Historically, librarians have sat at the coalface between the entire universe of published material and patrons, choosing books with at least a colorable claim to credibility, carefully cataloging and shelving them, and then assisting patrons in understanding how to synthesize the material contained therein.

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Libraries & Makerspaces: a Match made in Heaven -- LOVE this Best Practice! #TLChat
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Libraries on the forefront of revitalizing the American Dream