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Pilot Profile: Montgomery’s Math Class Morphs to a Makerspace

On February 22nd, 2013 By mcolombo
  Editor’s note: This week’s post is by Isaac Alexander with additional reflections by Michael Colombo. Rachael Ayre teaches a high school algebra course at Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa. Her class is tough: it consists of students who’ve struggled with Algebra in the past and are hoping to graduate [...]
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Reflections on our first few months

On February 15th, 2013 By Stephanie Chang
With the start of the academic school year in late summer 2012, we focused our efforts on learning from and working with our 15 high schools in the MENTOR Makerspace pilot program. These schools represent the full spectrum: big, medium, and small; private, public, and charter; urban, suburban, and rural; serving low-income, [...]
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Disruption Department’s Popup Makerspace: EdcampSTL

On February 11th, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Greg Hill, the technology integration expert for a public school system in St. Louis, Missouri and the Project Lead at the Disruption Department, a group dedicated to providing “the platform and the resources for students to learn, to build, and to share innovative things.” [...]
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Librarians look at Makerspaces

On February 9th, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
There’s been some more buzz recently about getting Makerspaces into libraries. I came across this piece posted by American Libraries Magazine  a few days ago that covers the recent interest. Manufacturing Makerspaces It includes… an interview with Cory Doctorow where he talks more about the “makerspace revolution” he portrayed in his [...]
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Repost: Hello Kitty’s first flight into space

On February 6th, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
We couldn’t resist sharing this small step for kitty-kind, an inspiring feat by a teen made as a science project. “Lauren Rojas, a 13-year-old in Antioch, California, east of San Francisco…decided to send a Hello Kitty “catonaut” nearly 100,000 feet into space, with a high-altitude balloon, and to record the results.” Read more [...]
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Staying safe in makerspaces

On February 4th, 2013 By Stephanie Chang
At the “How to Make a Makerspace” workshop in Somerville, Massachusetts this past weekend, one of the common themes, among many, that emerged in discussions was “safety”. In his keynote, Dale Dougherty, too, called out the need to improve safety — the practices, instruction, information, protocol and procedures, and consistency. Like others, [...]
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How to Learn Almost Anything, Open MIT Online Class

On February 3rd, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
Mitchel Resnick just announced that he’ll be teaching a course anyone can take! If you don’t already know him, Mitchel directs the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group, designed the “programmable bricks” on which LEGO Mindstorms were based, co-founded the international Computer Clubhouse and MIT’s Center for Civic [...]
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Makers of Spaces, Makers of Makers

On February 2nd, 2013 By Dale Dougherty
The “How to Make A Makerspace” workshop, organized by Artisan’s Asylum and MAKE Magazine, opened February 1 at the Artisan’s Asylum, which is located in the former Ames Envelope Factory in Somerville, MA. Gui Cavalcanti is a co-founder of Artisan’s Asylum and the conference organizer. He opened the conference talking about the two-and-a-half [...]
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National microMedic Contest (with free kits for educators!)

On January 31st, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
Are you making the medical devices of the future? Or do you want to experiment with making people’s lives better whether in the hospital or in a remote clinic? Here’s the contest for you! Over $25,000 in prizes are up for grabs for projects representing “the next generation of medical innovation” in [...]
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Pilot Profile: Independence High School in San Francisco

On January 29th, 2013 By Stephanie Chang
Last December, Beth Alberts spent hours collecting driftwood to prepare for a lab class. In some ways, driftwood fits right in at Beth’s school, Independence High School, a public high school about 6 blocks from the glistening ocean in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood. In this lab, Beth challenged her students to [...]
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