Organizations
and
Conferences
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- FUSE 2016 conference:
Design Thinking Experience, June 15-17, Atlanta, GA. Led by
the Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation.
TD4ED
- uses design thinking practices to help teachers identify problems,
define challenges, and develop actionable solutions — together.
Available as a free
stand alone self-facilitated interactive multimedia design thinking
journey for teachers or as an onsite
in-person PD offering. From the Business
Innovation Factory.- d.school, Institute of
Design at Stanford; Solving
Problems for Real World, Using Design, By Nicole Perlroth, New
York Times, Sunday, December 29, 2013
- Design Thinking
for Educators
- K12 Lab Network at the d.school
- Maker Education Initiative -
Maker Ed is a non-profit organization that supports and empowers
educators and communities — particularly, those in underserved
areas — to facilitate meaningful making and learning experiences
with youth. Twitter: @MakerEdOrg
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Articles & Reports
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 Automotive
Machines and Design Principles for Robotics Teams and Future Engineers,
The Zebra, May 29, 2017- Bottle
Rockets and Other Educational Crafts (Bath Bombs, Terrariums,
Telescopes, Robots)
- Middle
School Maker Journey: Top 20 Technologies and Tools, by Kevin
Jarrett, edutopia, December 4, 2015
- Excellent
Makerspace Resource document from the Cape Elizabeth Middle
School and Jonathan
R. Werner, November 24, 2015
- The
Development and Growth of the Maker Movement in Sonoma County Schools
K-12, special report, September 2015
- MakeSchools
Higher Education Alliance: State of Making Report, June 2015.
Explore 40 Higher Education
Institutions.
- "How
to Build Your Makerspace" Guide from edSurge, June, 2015
- Gary Stager's Invent to Learn Maker
Lab shopping list for elementary schools. Spreadsheet-PDF.
Spreadsheet-Excel.
edutopia's
Maker Education
Resources Page: Includes Project-Based
Learning Through a Maker's Lens, By Patrick Waters, July 9,
2014; Designing
a School Makerspace, by Jennifer Cooper, September 30, 2013;
The
DIY World of Maker Tools and Their Uses, by Vicki Davis, July
21, 2014; 6
Strategies for Funding a Makerspace, by Paloma Garcia-Lopez,
September 5, 2013; and a terrific new video, How
the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Tech
(July 22, 2014).
- Project-Based
Learning Through a Maker's Lens, By Patrick Waters, Edutopia,
July 9, 2014. Also see Patrick's Blog and Resource Page at woodshopcowboy.com
- Project
Ideas, Videos, and Other "Making" Resources. From
the June 2014 ASCD Education Update feature, "If You Build
It: Tinkering With the Maker Mind-Set," June, 2014.
- White House Maker
Faire, June 18, 2014
- Making
Their Way: Creating a New Generation of ‘Thinkerers, by
Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski, report on a symposium that
took place at the 2010 Maker Faire, Dearborn, MI.
- Follow the progress of Tony Wagner's new film on Learning
Innovations
- Designing
a School Makerspace, by Jennifer Cooper, Edutopia, September
30, 2013. Blog post includes list of excellent resources.
- Creating
Makerspaces in Schools, by Mary Beth Hertz, Edutopia, November
6, 2012
- Want
to Start a Makerspace at School? Tips to Get Started, by Frank
Catalano, KQED Mind/Shift, February 12, 2013
- 3
Key Qualities for a School Makerspace, By Parker Thomas, Make:,
August 11th, 2013
- Making
a Makerspace: Peek Inside My Plans, by Robert Pronovost, Blog,
October 29, 2013
- Teaching Science in
the 21st Century Blog by Lindsey Own. Also, Lindsey Own on Twitter,
@LindseyOwn.
- Resources:
Makerspaces and Hackerspaces, Invent to Learn
- High
School Makerspaces: Q&A with MAKE’s Dale Dougherty,
By Ricky Cadden, Techspecs, April 18, 2012
- makeX:
Teen Mobile Makerspace, Palo Alto, CA. Project Goal: To design
and develop a third space for Palo Alto middle-school and high-school
age teens that is a “space of their own” that promotes
self-directed and mentored creative expression and learning about
art and technology, meets the educational and social needs of the
teen audience and through its mobile nature, encourages participation
by teen audiences throughout the City.
- d.school, Institute of
Design at Stanford; Solving
Problems for Real World, Using Design, By Nicole Perlroth, New
York Times, Sunday, December 29, 2013
- Design Thinking
for Educators
- Making Thinking
Happen blog space from Agency by Design at Project Zero, Harvard,
exploring ideas at the intersection of the maker movement, design
thinking, and Project Zero frameworks. Instagram.
Twitter.
- Video: How
the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Technology,
Edutopia, 2014
- Video: The Learning Corridor: Not
Old School: Architecture in Support of Learning
- Video: 3-D
Printer Powers High School Projects at Napa New Technology High
School, Center for Digital Education
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