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ISTE 2013 Roundup - Student Leadership, Hard Fun, and More!
We are looking forward to another fantastic ISTE - the grandmother of all education technology conferences. This year ISTE will be in San Antonio, Texas June 23-26th, 2013. Generation YES will be there in force (meaning kids!) GenYES students from … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, educational technology, GenYES, ISTE, ISTE13, technology literacy, tinkering
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Announcing - Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
So some of you may have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet here lately. All my writing energy has been going to a good cause though! I’m happy to announce a new book: Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering … Continue reading
Beyond Pink and Blue
In “Beyond Pink and Blue” on the blog site for The Nation magazine, author Dana Goldstein writes about children and gender norms. She quoted me for a part of the article about tinkering, and how that kind of hands on … Continue reading
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Tagged constructivist, educational technology, femtech, Science, STEM, tinkering
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BETT 2012
I’m heading to London this week to take part in the BETT 2012 conference in London. This is the largest educational technology conference in the world and I’ve been wanting to check it out for years! I’m presenting a session … Continue reading
In Praise of Tinkering - Time magazine online
Time Magazine online : In Praise of Tinkering: How the decline in technical know-how is making us think less Annie Murphy Paul has written an opinion piece about how tinkering is essential to learning - and I’m quoted! How cool … Continue reading
Hack the Future - kids learn by tinkering with code
At Hack the Future, an event for school-aged kids in San Jose, hacking means creating code, sharing ideas, programming, and learning from each other. This is a great example of how “tinkering”, or experimenting with how something is built, can … Continue reading
Tinkering and “real work”
Perhaps we should avoid squeezing all serendipity out of science in a quest to teach students about a “real world” that exists only in the feeble imaginations of textbook authors. Tinkering is the way that real science happens in all its messy glory. Continue reading
Tinkering and STEM - good for girls, good for all
I’m excited to be an invited panelist at the National Council of Women in IT (NCWIT) Summit on Women and IT: practices and ideas to revolutionize computing next week in New York City. The topic is Tinkering: How Might ‘Making Stuff’ … Continue reading
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Tagged #femtech, femtech, gender, girls, K-12, PBL, STEM, technology, tinkering
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Gamestar Mechanic - Designing games through gameplay
I spend a fair amount of time encouraging teachers to think about “games in learning” not just as students playing games, but student designing games and other digital experiences. Game design is a great combination of systems thinking and design, … Continue reading
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Tagged constructivist, creativity, games, professional development, project-based, technology, tinkering
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Creating a Generation of “Thinkerers”
Making provides opportunities for young people to use their hands and their minds together. Untold numbers of youth are messing around with all manner of tools to create, in tangible form, what’s on their minds. Equally important, the maker movement … Continue reading