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Innovative Designing Through Makerspace
“Students who understand the innovation process and develop traits that successful innovators possess will have a distinct advantage when they enter the workforce.” The Philosophy of Educational Makerspaces Last year, a wonderful member…
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Creative Communicating Through Technology
Digital-age students have the world at their fingertips… So why do classroom presentations still look like a student holding a stack of notecards nervously in front of a Powerpoint slideshow? ISTE student standard…
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Community Engagement Through Understanding by Design
The last few years I have been teaching opinion writing through curriculum provided performance tasks that walk students through a couple of sources explaining the pros and cons regarding plastic, disposable water bottles.…
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Teaching Social Justice Through Computational Thinking
Social justice has been weighing heavy on my heart recently and having the wonderful opportunity to be involved in a Digital Education Leadership graduate program, I have been pondering the ways in which…
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Creating Critical Curators Through Knowledge Constructing
What meaningful learning experiences can teachers help guide students through in order for them to feel empowered as critical curators? ISTE Student Standard 3: Knowledge Constructor Students critically curate a variety of resources…