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Tinkering and Technological Imagination in Educational Technology
Given the infusion of technology in almost every aspect of our lives, the education sector is struggling on how to integrate it into the classroom. We have seen current trends and attempts for the use...
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The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Tinkering and Maker Education
If you have been following my blog series on The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture, you know that I am using this opportunity, given all the press on flipped classroom, to discuss a model of teaching...
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Let Children’s Play (with Technology) Be Their Work in Education
The importance of play as part of a child’s development has been the focus of educational specialists and research for decades. Piaget and Montessori have emphasized that a child’s play is his or her...
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STEAM and Maker Education: Inclusive, Engaging, Self-Differentiating
The maker movement has the opportunity to transform education by inviting students to be something other than consumers of education. They can become makers and creators of their own educational lives,...
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Maker Education Meets the Writers’ Workshop
There is a current breath-of-fresh air movement (in my opinion) in some education circles that is known as Maker Education or the DIY Movement. I wrote recent post on this topic, STEAM and Maker...
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Maker Education: A “Good” 2013-14 Educational Trend
In the midst of the implementation of common core state standards and no relief in sight from all the standardized testing, there’s been a breadth of fresh air in the form of maker education entering...
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LED Projects for Kids
I have been offered an opportunity to teach maker education again at a local summer enrichment program during summer, 2016. Last summer was my first time around so I experimented with lots of...
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Making a Hacked-Out Ugly Christmas Sweater
I’ve discussed the need to be a learner and lead learner in this era of education which includes maker education. What I find absolutely exciting about being a maker educator is that they need to be...
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