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Pilot Profile: Pittsburg’s Tandem Teachers

On November 13th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
In our first virtual teacher meetup, about half of our pilot schools joined a standing-room-only crowd on Google Hangouts, while others followed along on YouTube. You can watch our archive of the hangout here. Pittsburg High School was the second school we [...]
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Design Make Play – Making + STEM « Otherlab’s MENTOR News

On November 12th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Today, Otherlab’s Chief Epistemologist Joel Rosenberg, shares a 26-page report for a meeting called Design Make Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Educators that took place earlier this year. Here’s the report: http://www.nysci.org/media/file/DMP-Report-2012.pdf It’s a follow-up to an earlier meeting, whose report is also online: Read Full Article →

Learning Ideas: Design options, cross-referencing, cohesion

On November 7th, 2012 By Joel Rosenberg
This is the fourth and final post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace. Learning Idea: Explore design options. Another UK idea is to make design options visible to students through “chooser charts.” For example, in the Mechanisms Chooser Chart shown right, multiple options are [...]
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Student Designer How-To Kit from Business Innovation Factory

On November 7th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
The Business Innovation Factory’s Students Design For School (SD4S) Lab was approached by the Rhode Island Department of Education about adapting their approach of “student-led design” for a younger set of students. They asked, “Could a group of elementary school students hold the key to innovation?” Their answer takes the form [...]
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Team Member Profile: Saul Griffith « Otherlab’s MENTOR News

On November 6th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
The MENTOR Makerspace team members are taking turns talking about why we care so much about this project, what drives us, why it matters to us, and how we plan on using our talents to make the best contribution that we can. Not one of us accidentally decided to spend every day working on the [...]
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Othercutter Update: Speed and Quality Control Testing « Otherlab’s MENTOR News

On October 31st, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
In today’s Otherlab post, our partners share progress on the cardboard cutter, and the great news that the first ten machines are nearly ready to go to schools! Othercutter Update: Speed and Quality Control Testing And if you didn’t catch the earlier posts about Otherlab’s work on the Othercutter, here they [...]
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Pilot Profile: Athenian School’s Makers Studio–aviation, EVs, engineering evangelists

On October 30th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
In our first virtual teacher meetup, about half of our pilot schools joined a standing-room-only crowd on Google Hangouts, while others followed along on YouTube. You can watch our archive of the hangout here. This was the first of our onscreen [...]
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Software for MENTOR Makerspace Part 3: CAM Software « Otherlab’s MENTOR News

On October 29th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
This week, learn about the user interface software for the Othercutter, in Otherlab’s third post in a series on software to be used in MENTOR Makerspace. Software for MENTOR Part 3: CAM Software « Otherlab’s MENTOR News. And if you didn’t catch the earlier posts in this series, here they are: Software for MENTOR [...]
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FabLearn 2012: Digital Fabrication in Education Conference

On October 25th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Last week, a few of us from the MENTOR Makerspace team attended the FabLearn 2012: Digital Fabrication in Education conference at Stanford University’s School of Education. We met educators, researchers, and designers from around the world excited to teach kids how to make in the classroom. Several of our own Makerspace [...]
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EdWeek Blog: Makerspaces and Library Labs Encourage Student Creativity – BookMarks – Education Week

On October 25th, 2012 By Michelle Hlubinka
Thank you to Jennifer Kopach of Science Olympiad for alerting us to today’s post by Amy Wickner of Education Week: Makerspaces and Library Labs Encourage Student Creativity – BookMarks – Education Week.
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