Category: Maker Education

4 Ways to Bring the Real World into Classrooms

One of my favorite courses in my art history graduate school program was Museum Studies. It was one of the only classes I took that felt...

Making Poetry: Using Maker Ed in Creative Writing

I can still remember the groans I would hear when I told my sixth graders it was time to learn about poetry. Poetry often brings out emotion,...

Building a Classroom Community Through Maker Education

True, deep learning involves risk taking. It involves trial and error. Sometimes we must ask for help, and it doesn’t always come easily....

Planning for Maker Education in the Classroom and Makerspace

When I first started facilitating making experiences with students, one of the challenges I found was that I didn’t really know how to plan for...

Key Strategies for Maker Education

While I have always had a passion for student engagement and relationship-building, when I first started classroom teaching, I took a more...

Making Connections With Literacy and Maker Education

There are many obvious connections between STEM and making, but as Dr. John Spencer writes in one of his blog posts, “Too often, we associate...

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