Maker Education
Career Education: Even College Grads Should be Employable
Parents with boomerang kids in the basement have learned that even college graduates should possess skills and dispositions that make them employable. Young people need access to postsecondary learning and work experiences that will help them develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions for employability.
4 Steps to Becoming a Maker Teacher
By: Gayle Allen and Lisa Yokana. There’s a missing link between real-world maker movement popularity and classroom making. But the mystery is solved if you consider that most educators have never learned how to teach making.
YOUmedia Library Invites Teens to Hang Out, Mess Around, and Geek Out
Since its first location opened in 2009, YOUmedia learning labs have been established in four additional locations throughout Chicago.
9 #EdTech Problems You’re Facing
The 21st century is here and it’s brought some baggage. How will you turn it into an opportunity? Teachers, which of the above most resonates with you?
Project Breaker Brings Entrepreneur Spirit to Portland, OR
The challenge will be run from May 4th to 19th, teams of 17-24 year old students from across Portland will research local manufacturing then design and test the viability and social impact of business opportunities they identify.
Mini Maker Faire: Seattle
Last weekend, the third Seattle Mini Maker Faire took over the EMP museum in Seattle Center and filled it inside and out with neat things. Billed as a place where "people show what they are making, and share what they are learning," the all-ages faire featured some fantastic projects. A few of my favorites:
Building an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Lots of folks are talking about grit, but perseverance and growth mindset as a goal can be disconnected from a sense of purpose. Entrepreneurial mindset, as described by the KEEN network, is a more productive way to describe the dispositions we should be helping young people develop.
The Maker Spirit is Alive in Portland ( at #ipdx14 )
Great educators here in Portland are getting excited and ready to kick off their next two days of learning together- definitely feeling moved by the maker spirit.
The Do-It-Yourself Movement Goes to School
By: Patricia Gomes. Every movement to innovate in education has a honeymoon phase, when everyone wants to do it. That is exactly where the Maker Movement is. Everyone wants to set up a fab lab, but this could also fade away two years from now if we don’t produce results. That’s why my focus as a researcher is to show the results of this.
There’s a Maker Faire in That iPad! 10 Ways to Create Student Makers With Apps
These days, the word “maker” can be interchanged for “constructivist” and the Maker Movement is really starting to sweep the country.