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Reading suggestions from Making Thinking Happen

On January 23rd, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
Our friends at Making Thinking Happen have started a blog to share what they are learning about “at the intersection of the maker movement, design thinking, and Project Zero frameworks.” We’re going to add some books to our bookshelves based on their recommendations on their reading review page. What We’re Reading [...]
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Report: Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

On January 15th, 2013 By Michelle Hlubinka
Digital Media and Learning Research Hub recently released its 99-page report, Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Written by members of the Connected Learning Research Network, led by Mimi Ito, it pulls together ongoing research, design, and implementation of connected learning and will be the first of ten [...]
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Getting Started on an Independent Project

On December 27th, 2012 By Aaron Vanderwerff
For their final project, Lorena (pictured above) and Daniela worked with their mentors, bike makers Max Chen (pictured) and Johnny Payphone, on their very pink human-powered vehicle. They exhibited it at Maker Faire 2011. Starting an independent project can be a daunting task, especially if your students have never been asked [...]
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Research Roundup: Some Studies on Making and Learning

On December 20th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
We often get parents and teachers asking us if we can point to studies that prove that making is a good approach in the classroom. This question usually gets asked by advocates for Makerspaces who know from their own experience how effective student-driven, interdisciplinary projects  can be, based on what they’ve seen [...]
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Educators’ Workshop Review: Introduction to Electronics and Arduino

On December 12th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
On Saturday, December 8th, 2012, we met for another in our series Educators’ Workshops, hosted by the MENTOR Makerspace at Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland. Our goal was to introduce basic electronics and electricity and to try out some beginning Arduino projects. The  23 attendees got to sit in the [...]
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Homemade Tools (from Cool Tools)

On December 7th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
I found this great resource on Cool Tools – a link to a clearinghouse of links to project posting for Homemade Tools. It links to lots of other websites with step-by-step instructions.      
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Pilot Profile: The Menlo School

On November 30th, 2012 By Stephanie Chang
Editor’s note: This week, Stephanie Chang gives us an overview of the making happening at The Menlo School, one of the MENTOR Makerspace pilot schools   in 2012-13. Dr. James Dann (pictured right) and his students in his Applied Science Research (ASR) [...]
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Architecture and the Othercutter

On November 27th, 2012 By Devon McGuire
Since Otherlab started putting the word out about the Othercutter, they have gotten phone calls and emails from curious individuals from all different disciplines. Through this process they have discovered that architects are very interested. Check out Otherlab’s blog post about creating their own architectural model to understand the process and get an idea of [...]
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Educators’ Workshop Review: Mobile Tool Cart Build

On November 20th, 2012 By fpthomas
The Makerspace at Analy High School in Sebastopol hosted our very first Educators’ Workshop on November 17th. The workshop was created by our MENTOR Makerspace school liaisons Isaac and Stephanie in response to numerous requests from teachers looking for very basic instruction on how to use hand tools. Participants learned to [...]
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What’s The Big Idea? Pentagon Agency Backs Student Tinkerers To Find Out : All Tech Considered : NPR

On November 19th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Jon Kalish of NPR  visited Casey Shea’s classroom and interviewed Saul Griffith, Lt. Col. Nathan Wiedenman, and Dale Dougherty for this piece for NPR’s All Tech Considered, which aired today. What’s The Big Idea? Pentagon Agency Backs Student Tinkerers To Find Out If you’ve come to our site to learn more [...]
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