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As an experiential educator who has fully embraced technology as a means for allowing and facilitating learner voice, creativity, innovation, inventiveness, the Maker Education movement fits into m... 
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"Design Thinking is a great skill for students to acquire as part of their education. But it is one process like the problem-solving model or the scientific method. As a step-by-step process, it becomes type of box. Sometimes we need to go beyond that box; step outside of the box. This post provides an overview of design thinking, the problems with design thinking, and suggestions to hacking the world to go beyond design thinking."
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are looking for a variety of information on Design Thinking this post is for you. Gestein share many resources including: * An Introduction to Design Thinking, a Facilitator's Guide with a script, talking points, takeaways, and set-up considerations (available from Scribd) * A slideshare presentation "Design is hacking how we learn (presented at AIGA Into the Woods 2012) * links to a variety of articles, including "The d.school's Virtual Crash Course of Design Thinking" She also discusses some of the problems with Design Thinking, once again providing links several articles. She shares views from people in business who have turned Design Thinking " into a linear, gated, by-the-book methodology that delivered, at best, incremental change and innovation." She expresses concerns that this may also happen in education. The final section of her post looks at hacking, but with a different flavor than we often read. A number of definitions of hacking are provided and one is below: "In developing hacking as a skill, an attitude, and/or as an approach to construct and de-construct the world, it is more than just hacking in terms of computer science. In order to hack the world, we need to tear it apart, deconstruct it and analyze its components parts and how they operate in relation to one another within various systems. This is a mental, social, emotional, and whenever possible, a physical process." Challenge yourself to read this post. Chances are you will come away with some new ideas.
Melissa Ainsworth's curator insight,
June 9, 2013 6:13 AM
This website has useful information for teachers and students about design thinking and interpretation. It looks at many elements of design and how to approach design in relation to technology. This website is helpful to give teachers some stepping stones and guidance as to where to go with design and technology. 
Design in Practice's curator insight,
August 2, 2014 10:45 AM
Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand
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"Given all the press around the Flipped Classroom, Khan Academy, and Ted-Ed, long overdue discussions around the use of lectures in the classroom have evolved. Educators are questioning when, how, and what types of lectures best serve and address student learning. Along with this development, research is being conducted with students about how they want to be taught and what they learn via a lecture model of education. For example, according to “Learn Now, Lecture Later,” a new report released by CDW-G, only 23% of students are satisfied with the way the teachers spend their class time." A thought provoking look at how lectures are used and changes we might consider in the classroom.
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The following materials are being used to present to educators the idea that implementing maker education requires a different mindset, and often different roles and skills of the educator. To acce...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you interested in being known as an educator whom is also a maker educator? This post from Jackie Gerstein provides a great visual that looks as many of the roles you might play, including * Process facilitator * Resource suggestion provider * Lead learner * Relationship enabler * Technology tutor This visual is designed in ThingLink and if you click through from the post you will find additional resources in the visual And you might also view a SlideShare where Gerstein provides additional resources.
Kate JohnsonMcGregor's curator insight,
June 3, 2014 11:11 AM
I'd really like to make the transition in my Library Learning Commons to integrate a makerspace. My goal is to help promote a maker mentality in my school. This is a great resource to introduce the idea to teachers.
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In the world of educational technology, we often hear Pedagogy Before the Technology. hmmmm . . . really? Then why are there so many 60 tool in 60 minutes presentations? Lists of 100 Web 2.0 too... Jackie Gerstein takes a look at "truths about educational reform" with a small t...a look at teaching and learning. She raises a number of questions, asking us to think about how we would like to be taught, at how we can create the classroom that our learners want. A thought provoking post that includes a slideshare show.
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It is rare that I curate two articles from the same author over two days. This post by Jackie Gerstein is an exception. Gerstein has been discussing Maker Education for quite some time and in this post she states:
"...recent discussions with other educators and administrators made me realize that the idea of maker education is often vague and seems unrealistic in terms of regular classroom instruction. As such, in the future, I am going to associate and discuss Maker Education in the context S.T.E.A.M. – science, technology, engineering, arts (including language arts), math, hopefully, encouraging regular classroom teachers to integrate maker education projects into their classrooms."
What follows is a lengthy list of articles and other resources that may assist you in learning about Maker Education and moving you towards implementing it in your classroom. The image above is also a ThingLink image, and will provide you with links to the same articles.