Month: April 2016

The Maker Movement in K-12 Education: A Guide to Emerging Research – Digital Education – Education Week

By Benjamin Herold on April 11, 2016 9:00 AM

Few trends in K-12 ed tech are as hot—or as under-researched—as “Maker” education.

The term generally refers to using a wide variety of hands-on activities (such as building, computer programming, and sewing) to support academic learning and the development of a mindset that values playfulness and experimentation, growth and iteration, and collaboration and community.

Typically, “Making” involves attempting to solve a particular problem, creating a physical or digital artifact, and sharing that product with a larger audience. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.
Source: The Maker Movement in K-12 Education: A Guide to Emerging Research – Digital Education – Education Week

Fab School Labs

We’re on a mission to get students excited about science, technology, engineering and mathematics – better known as STEM.

Why? Because we want today’s students to be a part of tomorrow’s solutions – using STEM to create, design and solve for the needs and demands to come that will make our lives better and easier.

But for that to be possible, students need access to the latest learning tools and technologies and unfortunately, too many of today’s technology labs and science classrooms are not making the grade.
Fab School Labs to the rescue!

After a successful inaugural year for the contest in 2015, the Northrop Grumman Foundation Fab School Labs Contest is back for a second year, making five additional grants of up to $100,000 available to public middle schools for a fabulous school lab makeover.

Source: About – Fab School Labs