STEM Education: Have you made promises you can’t keep?
Two years ago, I made my first visit to a Maker Faire. I wrote about that trip and about how I was both excited and confused by what I saw. I loved the fact that there were far more different kinds of...
Maker Heaven!
We celebrate the arts every year at our school through an Arts Week that brings together speakers and activities through many of the fine and performing arts. We had some AMAZING speakers (photograp...
The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher – A Reflection
I don’t often do this, but I read a recent article in the Atlantic, The Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher, that really got me agitated and I need to air some thoughts here. Michael Godsey, a ...
Learn to Make – Make to Learn
I’ve been spending my Spring Break wading through Learning Logs, interviews, assignments, and surveys trying to distill common threads from the thinking of a number of students in a Social Studi...
Maker Meditations
Those who are regulars around these parts, will know that I’m engaged in an Action Research project that is involved in looking at the broad question of maker learning as an inquiry approach to ...
There is nothing “New” in Libraries in the 21st Century
A brief thought this morning. I was reading through my Twitter stream over a cup of coffee and found a tweet of a Mindshift article from back in June on what the “next-generation” school...
PBL vs Maker Learning
It seems to me, there are a lot of things in common between PBL and maker learning. But, there are also some significant differences. PBL often means project-based or problem-based learning. This ...
No Longer a Maker Faire Virgin
I’ve been thinking, reading, and talking about the maker “revolution” for some time now, but have not actually been to a maker faire until today. All I can say is WOW! Thank god ...