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Tag Archives: tinkering
Lessons about projects from Tinkering School
I’ve written before about Gever Tulley and this short TED talk video about his Tinkering School. I used it to open my Educon conversation – Tinkering Towards Technology Fluency. Here is just a short list of things he mentions as … Continue reading
Posted in education reform, professional development
Tagged Gever Tulley, project, project-based learning, tinkering
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Tinkering and the grades question
Tinkering is still at the top of my mind these days, even though I haven’t had much time to blog about it much (besides this). But often when things are on your mind, everything you see seems to relate. If … Continue reading
Posted in constructivism, education reform
Tagged alfie kohn, alternative, assessment, grades, motivation, project-based, school, students, tinkering
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Tinkering and Technology
Before this all slips my mind, I wanted to post some thoughts about the conversation I led at Educon 2.2 last weekend called Tinkering Towards Technology Fluency. I had a few slides prepared, and a general list of things I … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, constructivism, education reform, games, professional development
Tagged bricolage, educon, Educon22, fluency, games, gender, James Paul Gee, mastery, Papert, technology, technology literacy, tinkering, Turkle
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Teaching Girls to Tinker
Education Week: Teaching Girls to Tinker. Yet, even as girls open new gender gaps by outpacing their male peers in most subjects, men still receive roughly 77 percent of the bachelor’s degrees awarded in engineering and 85 percent of those … Continue reading
Whoosh! DC, workshops, Techspo and Educon
Some travels this week: Monday and Tuesday I’m in Washington DC for a big announcement – stay tuned for something exciting! Wednesday I’m in New York City leading a workshop on project-based technology literacy with some independent schools. If it’s … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, education reform, Generation YES, professional development
Tagged educon, sylvia martinez, technology literacy, tinkering
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Tinkering Towards Educon
I’ll be heading to Philadelphia later this month for the Educon conference. This is a terrific small conference held at the Science Leadership Academy about education and change. Educon is famous for having “conversations” not “presentations.” This means that the … Continue reading
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Tagged bricolage, conference, constructivism, educon, Educon22, session, SLA, technology, tinkering
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Deliberate Tinkering
Presentation Zen: 10 Tips on how to think like a designer. Design in the real world is often a process of deliberate tinkering. Sometimes the goal may be clear, with timelines, budgets, and constraints. Or the goal may be less … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom, creativity, design, PBL, Presentation Zen, project-based learning, school, student, tinkering
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Tinkering School
Once a year at the TED conference, invited speakers from all fields and backgrounds gather to give short talks about their subjects of interest. The conference website holds a treasure trove of brilliant, moving examples of storytelling about things that … Continue reading
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Tagged children, cmk09, Gever Tulley, student, technology, tinker, tinkering
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Tinkering with Twitter
By now you’ve probably heard of Twitter, the latest techno-craze taken up by those-in-the-know, celebrities, and well, me too. It’s so popular that the inevitable “it’s not so great” stories are now making their way into the news. According to … Continue reading
Tinkering as a mode of knowledge production in a Digital Age
From the “Carnegie Commons” – Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production in a Digital Age. Tip of the hat to Steve Spaeth, a TechYES Advisor in Maine for this link. The MacArthur Foundation brought together educators, “tinkerers,” curators, artists, … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnegie, creativity, digital age, education, John Seely Brown, knowledge production, Papert, problem-solving, Seymour Papert, technology, tinkering
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