The Maker Movement: It’s about ‘making up’ your own mind

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Session Title

The Maker Movement: It’s about ‘making up’ your own mind

Session Descriptor

The maker movement is not only about making with electronics and coding. Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions, etc. are all part of the maker movement. This interactive conversation will unpack how to create knowledge-building classrooms where students are empowered with “making up” their own minds. Such constructivist and inclusive environments develop “a positive sense of well-being—sense of self, identity and belonging in the world that will help them to learn, grow and thrive.”

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Resources

• ‘Making’ Does Not Equal ‘Constructionism’
• Pawn or Origin? Enhancing Motivation in Disaffected Youth by Richard deCharms
• The Daily Papert – one source of information about the father of educational computing (Seymour Papert)
• Logo Computer Programming (Coding) Language

 

• Logo Computer Systems Incorporated (LCSI)
• Turtle Art
• Making Thinking Visible – book
• Making Thinking Visible – Intro to Thinking Routines
• Using Visible Thinking Strategies to Develop Expert Learners – Journal Writing – Scaffolds et al
• Natural Curiosity
• Knowledge Building: What is it Really? Isn’t it Just Learning by Another Name?
• Knowledge Building resources on the Learning Exchange
• ‘Effects with’ vs ‘effects of’ in “Deep Understanding and the Issue of Transfer”
• 21st Century Competencies (.pdf) 21CL_21stCenturyCompetencies