Topic: Maker-Centered Learning

  • Incorporating Maker-Centered Learning at Van Ness

    Incorporating Maker-Centered Learning at Van Ness

    In this video, you will learn how Maker-centered learning is integrated throughout students’ work at Van Ness Elementary School.

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    Van Ness Elementary School
  • 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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    Agency by Design
  • Looking at Student Work: Suggested Practices

    These suggested practices for looking at Maker-Centered Learning integrate a collaborative documentation practice.

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    Agency by Design
  • Middle school maker journey

    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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    Edutopia
  • How to incubate creativity in schools through making and discovery

    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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    KQED
  • How Libraries can turn stories into Maker Projects

    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 […]

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    MindShift
  • The #MakerEd manifesto

    Three teachers share why they chose to incorporate maker education in their classrooms, in this personal essay.

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    Christa Flores, Patrick Benfield, and Amy Atkins
  • Making (in) History: Learning by Reinvention

    In this blog post, learn about how one history teacher uses making to stretch students to think more critically and challenges them to become active designers of historical works.

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    Edutopia