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IT Infrastructure & Management Video Smart Ed Tech Strategy That Comes From the Classroom
Joseph Williams, the technology director in California’s Perris Union High School District, demands fast responses to IT problems and insists on keeping close connections to teaching and learning by sitting in on lessons and coaching his colleagues. Williams oversees a $3.2 million technology budget that supports Chromebooks for all 10,700 students, has dramatically expanded opportunities for students and staff to learn computer science, and provides “maker spaces” for hands-on student building and creation. “What I didn’t want to do was try to effect change by riding a desk,” Williams says. “I needed to be able to lead from the classroom.” This video was produced as part of Education Week’s Leaders To Learn From project, recognizing outstanding school district leaders from around the country. More at http://leaders.edweek.org
February 22, 2017
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Classroom Technology Ed-Tech Research That Mattered in 2016
From the maker movement to online testing to the digital divide, 2016 was a big year for high-quality research on the promise and peril of educational technology.
Benjamin Herold, December 20, 2016
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Curriculum Study Profiles Maker-Space Educators and Their Needs
A study that combined an online survey with a smaller number of in-depth interviews revealed what motivates maker-space educators and what they need from administrators to succeed.
Leo Doran, October 6, 2016
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Classroom Technology Baltimore Maker Education Goes Mobile in Open Works Van
A 34,000-square-foot facility and its mobile van will provide maker education opportunities for students in the region this coming fall.
Taylor Lewis, July 12, 2016
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Curriculum ISTE 2016: Maker Education, Computer Science...and Drones?
Here's what to look for at the country's largest education technology conference, which begins this weekend in Denver.
Benjamin Herold, June 24, 2016
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School Climate & Safety Opinion Maker Spaces or Virtual Lockers Won't Solve the Achievement Gap
Unless school and district leadership take a system-wide view of each change to re-design the possibilities within the system as a whole, with the intent of including all students, a widening achievement gap will result.
Jill Berkowicz & Ann Myers, June 23, 2016
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Curriculum Education Secretary King Calls on Schools to Build 'Maker Spaces'
U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. called on schools to help foster "making"—or hands-on creating, building, and tinkering—by giving students space for that sort of innovation.
Liana Loewus, June 20, 2016
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Reading & Literacy 'Maker Spaces' and Literacy Instruction: Playing With Story
As maker spaces become increasingly common in K-12 schools, one school librarian argues that the philosophy of making can lead to creative literacy instruction.
Jaclyn Zubrzycki, June 9, 2016
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School & District Management Q&A The Maker Movement, Equity, and Schools: Researcher Q&A
As K-12 schools embrace maker education, researchers and practitioners are wrestling with how to ensure a focus on diversity and inclusion.
Benjamin Herold, June 8, 2016
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Shemya Key, 17, left, and Nele Dixkens, a 16-year-old German exchange student, use a drill press to perfect their miniature-golf project in the engineering room at Monticello High School in Virginia’s Albermarle County school district.
Shemya Key, 17, left, and Nele Dixkens, a 16-year-old German exchange student, use a drill press to perfect their miniature-golf project in the engineering room at Monticello High School in Virginia’s Albermarle County school district.
Reza A. Marvashti for Education Week
Curriculum The 'Maker' Movement Is Coming to K-12: Can Schools Get It Right?
The movement for more hands-on, student-driven learning is going mainstream, migrating from museums and garages into the highly regulated world of K-12 education.
Benjamin Herold, June 6, 2016
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Curriculum Join Our Video Project: #ShowUsYourMakerSpace
“Maker spaces”—facilities designed to encourage hands-on activity and experimentation—have become an increasingly exciting part of many schools’ digital-learning and career-tech offerings. With their focus on inventiveness and collaboration, they also offer new ways of looking at classroom or learning-space design.
May 13, 2016
Abdullah Haseeb, 4, works with “circuit blocks” last year in the MakeShop at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. The blocks are the result of a collaboration between a local teacher, a resident artist, and a robotics lab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Abdullah Haseeb, 4, works with “circuit blocks” last year in the MakeShop at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. The blocks are the result of a collaboration between a local teacher, a resident artist, and a robotics lab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jeff Swenson for Education Week-File
School & District Management Researchers Probe Equity, Design Principles in Maker Ed.
Encouraging students to draw not just on their own internal skills and experiences, but also assets from individuals and community is a key to successful "maker" education, research suggests.
Benjamin Herold, April 19, 2016
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Abdullah Haseeb, 4, works with “circuit blocks” in the MakeShop at the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum. The blocks are the result of a collaboration between a local teacher, a resident artist, and a robotics lab at Carnegie Mellon University.
Abdullah Haseeb, 4, works with "circuit blocks" in the MakeShop at the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.
Jeff Swensen for Education Week
Curriculum The Maker Movement in K-12 Education: A Guide to Emerging Research
As Maker Education evolves in K-12, researchers are exploring related equity issues, design principles for Maker spaces, and the impact of this approach on student learning.
Benjamin Herold, April 11, 2016
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Curriculum School Libraries on Display: Send Us Your Photos (#ShowUsYourLibrary)
In this special photo project, we asked school librarians and teachers who use Twitter and Instagram to post photos that represent the importance of their school and classroom library.
April 1, 2016
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