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Jaw-Dropping Classroom 3D Printer Creations
Rob Puckett adjusts his 3D printer.Photo Credit: Todd FinleyTodd FinleyClassroom TechnologyLearn what 3D printing is, what students like to create with this technology, and the low-cost, high-impact...
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Students as Designers: Game Jams!
Photo Credit: Matthew FarberMatthew FarberGame-Based LearningThe game jam (a game about making a game) is a hands-on model for inspiring student creativity, collaboration, and sense of accomplishment.
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6 Reasons Why Puppets Will Change Your Classroom Forever
Photo Credit: Sam PattersonSam PattersonMaker EducationPuppet-based learning teaches students design thinking, growth mindset, writing, how to work in sharable media, and how to approach learning...
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7 Tenets of Creative Thinking
Michael MichalkoStudent EngagementMichael Michalko explains that everyone is an artist and that it takes belief and persistence to nurture this quality. He offers seven principles about creative...
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Fostering Creativity With Makerspaces
Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0)Nicholas ProvenzanoMaker EducationThe creative possibilities of a school makerspace will become obvious once you find the space, find the money, find...
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Starting a School Makerspace from Scratch
Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0)Colleen GravesMaker EducationSuccessfully launching a school makerspace includes community buy-in, generating a student buzz, finding cheap or free...
View ArticleGoing Beyond Exam Results: Developing Soft Skills in Students
When students leave school they are equipped with a series of certificates featuring letters and numbers based on achievement, or in many cases, memorisation. These grades start to form the beginnings...
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School Makerspaces: Building the Buzz
Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0)Blake Auchincloss and Lisa YokanaMaker EducationOnce you've created a makerspace, create some excitement around it by engaging students with...
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Arts Integration: Resource Roundup
Arts IntegrationAll points of arts integration -- from implementation in the classroom and engaging students, to linking the arts with core curriculum -- are covered in this roundup of useful Edutopia...
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4 Things Transformational Teachers Do
Photo Credit: EdutopiaTodd FinleyBack to SchoolTransformational teachers create experiences in their classrooms, melding the art and science of any subject and making their students care about learning.
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Insight and Outsight: 8 Strategies to Catalyze District-Wide Learning
Photo Credit: EdutopiaPam MoranSchool LeadershipTo prepare for an unpredictable future, look beyond educations' familiar rhythms to encourage staff and student voice and agency, rule challengers,...
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Does Your Classroom Tell a Story?
Stacey GoodmanLearning EnvironmentsBringing objects and props into your classroom can create a world of curiosity and wonder for you and your students.
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Middle School Maker Journey: Shop Class Rebooted. . . Digitally
Photo credit: Kevin Jarrett via flickr (CC BY 2.0)Kevin JarrettMaker EducationHow do you make a makerspace? Middle school teacher Kevin Jarrett begins his year-long series by reimagining "shop class"...
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Fuel Creativity in the Classroom With Divergent Thinking
Stacey GoodmanStudent EngagementTeachers can inspire out-of-box thinking for students by using problem-based learning, art, music, and inquiry-based feedback.
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What the Heck Is Project-Based Learning?
Photo credit: NYCDOT via flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)Heather Wolpert-GawronProject-Based LearningIn project-based learning, students show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its...
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Cultivating Creativity in Standards-Based Classrooms
Marilyn Price-Mitchell PhDCreativityEven in a highly-structured classroom environment, you can foster creativity with strategies like possibility thinking, divergent thinking, encouraging student...
View ArticleCreating a Love of Poetry in Middle School
This past school year, during National Poetry Month, I posted a different poem in my classroom every day and would read it aloud to each group of students who entered. Several times, at the start of...
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Start the School Year by "Awakening Your Dreamers"
Suzie BossPBL PlanningWhat if your first project was about getting to know the hopes and dreams and talents of your students?
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5 Ways of Bringing Student Passions to Student Learning
Vicki Davis @coolcatteacherStudent VoiceLearning and learning outcomes are more meaningful to students when teachers engage their passions, unleash their creativity, and give them time and tools for...
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A Student Maker and the Birth of a Startup
Photo Credit: Matt TalhelmNick AnglinStudent EngagementA reluctant middle school student responded to a summer maker challenge and ended up demonstrating his sports training product prototype at a...
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