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Meet Dora Medrano Ramos – Building Capacity for Liberatory Defiance

May 5, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Meet Dora Medrano Ramos – Building Capacity for Liberatory Defiance

This week, as we celebrate Learning in the Making’s first birthday, we have two incredibly special posts featuring Linda Le and Dora Medrano Ramos, who started Learning in the Making last year.

In this post, we chat with Dora: educator, math healer, undocumented immigrant, and big dreamer redefining who gets to be called a “maker” and what is considered “making.”

Filed Under: Ask a Maker Educator, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff Tagged With: #dorasmathchannel, math, Staff

Freedom Dreaming with Linda Le

May 5, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Freedom Dreaming with Linda Le

This week, as we celebrate Learning in the Making’s first birthday, we have two incredibly special posts featuring Linda Le and Dora Medrano Ramos who started Learning in the Making last year.

In honor of a year’s worth of  amazing Learning in the Making episodes we talk with LITM co-creator, Linda Le: an educator, activist, eater, and maker of memories, meaning, and things. 

Filed Under: Community, Host Interviews, Learning in the Making: LIVE!, Maker Ed, Maker Ed Staff

#dorasmathchannel: Let’s talk math anxiety

March 19, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

#dorasmathchannel: Let’s talk math anxiety

What is math anxiety?

Math anxiety is realized when engaging with math causes a mental shut down. It can show up as panic, stress, anger, the inability to talk about math from a fear of being wrong, negative associations, or a brain freeze, among others. Learn more from our resident Math Champion, Dora!

Filed Under: Ask a Maker Educator, Community, Growing Up Making, Resources Tagged With: #dorasmathchannel, math, STEM

Addressing white terrorism and anti-Asian hate

March 18, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

We are writing with broken hearts after eight individuals, six of whom were Asian women, were slain after another devastating event of white supremacy and white male rage in Atlanta on Tuesday.  Anti-Asian hate and misogyny are rife in America, around the world, and in our own Bay Area community. While incidences of hate and […]

Filed Under: Community, News, Resources, Young Makers Tagged With: equity, Schools

Math Affirmations: I Am a Mathematician

March 14, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Math Affirmations: I Am a Mathematician

Practicing positive affirmations is a way for us to heal our math anxiety in order to build our math confidence and resilience! Find an affirmation that speaks to you (or write your own!) Keep it somewhere you see regularly. Say the affirmation to yourself and repeat it often, especially when you notice a negative thought start to appear. It might seem difficult at first, but over time, you can build a positive math identity and you will be able to see yourself as a thinker and doer of math! 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #dorasmathchannel, math

Explora: cultivating an ecosystem of maker educators in New Mexico

February 24, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Explora: cultivating an ecosystem of maker educators in New Mexico

This article is part of a series of interviews with our partner organizations in the Making Spaces program. Read more Hub Highlights here.  Meet Explora Explora Science Center & Children’s Museum of Albuquerque is an innovative experiential learning center located in the heart of Old Town Albuquerque featuring over 250 interactive exhibits and activities in […]

Filed Under: Making Spaces Tagged With: Cohort 4, Hub Highlights

Maker Education can (and must) meet this moment

February 14, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Education is a political space, and it is dangerous to think of education as neutral. The transition into 2021 did not cure a global pandemic, deep racial injustice in America, unprecedented unemployment, and a political landscape that allowed for a violent insurgency against democracy in the name of white supremacy. As calls for unity and […]

Filed Under: Maker Ed, News, Uncategorized

Agency by Design Oakland: Responding to the demands of distance learning in a digital divide

January 26, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Agency by Design Oakland: Responding to the demands of distance learning in a digital divide

This article is part of a series of interviews with our partner organizations in the Making Spaces program. Read more Hub Highlights here.  Meet Agency by Design Oakland Agency by Design Oakland grew out of Project Zero’s Agency by Design research project, based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The original project, which lasted from […]

Filed Under: Making Spaces Tagged With: Cohort 4, Hub Highlights

FREE PRINTABLES: 2021 Calendars

January 4, 2021 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

FREE PRINTABLES: 2021 Calendars

Happy New Year! Remember last year how we made a bunch of plans and 2020 was like “I do not care about one plan you have!”? Yeah, well, us too, but we’re brining POSITIVE VIBES into 2021 and trying to start the year off strong. 💪 Here’s a few fun *FREE* downloads that double as […]

Filed Under: Resources

Imagining a “future world vivid with culture and diversity” – digging in with Jake Montano

December 15, 2020 by Maker Ed Leave a Comment

Imagining a “future world vivid with culture and diversity” – digging in with Jake Montano

Maker Ed chats with Jake Montano: a lover, fighter, spirited learner, and guest host on Learning in the Making: Puppets! 

Filed Under: Host Interviews, Learning in the Making: LIVE! Tagged With: Jake Montano

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