Subject: Maker Education
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The Framework for Maker-Centered Learning
This framework describes three interrelated capacities that help learners develop a sensitivity to design and a set of observable “moves” that educators can use to help design maker-centered learning experiences, […]
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Making in Action: Observation Tools
This set of three observation tools supports learners and educators to identify and assess the moves and indicators of maker-centered learning, including looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity.
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Assessing Learning in Maker Education
This article takes a look at how maker education is assessed—and how assessment is evolving to measure more than just content.
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STEAM at Drew Charter
Learn about how Drew Charter School leverages mobile makerspaces to integrate STEAM into core classes and access supply lists to create your own STEAM cart!
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How to incubate creativity in schools through making and discovery
Get a glimpse of how one elementary and middle school integrates making into its culture and curriculum in this article giving voice to students and teachers.
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Middle school maker journey
In this article, middle school teacher Kevin Jarrett reviews the manifesto, mantra, and materials necessary to make a middle school maker program from scratch.
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The Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio Projects
This online database of project ideas and instructional guides from the Tinkering Studio, part of the interactive Exploratorium museum, can provide inspiration for developing your own activities in your kitchen, […]
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NYSCI Design Make Play: A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth
If you are interested in starting a Maker program in your community, here is a resource guide to put you on a path that can turn that idea into a […]
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How Libraries can turn stories into Maker Projects
In this article, read about how maker program coordinator, Nora Peters, saw an opportunity to better connect the activities of the maker space with the library’s mission to promote literacy […]