[shareable cite=”Shauna Pollock, Creating Classroom Magic”]The only thing that the current North American schooling model prepares students for is more school.[/shareable]
Major Update and Book Coming Soon!
Download this 40 page handbook created to help you with all things related to Makerspaces.
More Maker Resources Coming Soon(by end of November)
Interview with Mitch Resnick
LEGO Resources
How to Make Personalized LEGO Nametag http://wp.me/p4covo-1W1
Make Writing with LEGO Instead of Writing Old School http://wp.me/p4covo-1yX
Learn How To Make A LEGO Picture Frame http://wp.me/p4covo-ZT
The Powerful Learning in Making a LEGO Duck http://wp.me/p4covo-1Ln
Lego Building Challenge Student #1 – Duck on the Bank http://wp.me/p4covo-bM
Lego Creation Challenge #9: These are going to be tough to beat! http://wp.me/p4covo-bj
Lego Building Challenge Student #2: Duck http://wp.me/p4covo-bK
LEGO City School Wide Building Challenge http://wp.me/p4covo-LY
Schoolwide LEGO World build challenge update! http://wp.me/p4covo-OT
Schoolwide LEGO World Building Challenge Update http://wp.me/p4covo-Nb
Lego Imagination Challenge: November http://wp.me/p4covo-a3
Lego Imagination October Contest: Halloween – All Submissions http://wp.me/p4covo-a7
Lego Imagination Contest: Halloween – The Final Submissions http://wp.me/p4covo-af
PBL Resources
Project Examples from 2014 – 2015
I can place you in contact with the teachers of these projects if you want more information. Just let me know.
Child’s Play: A STEM Language Arts PBL Unit – all documents and planning guides are available if needed
What makes a person more than a number? Skype With Holocaust Survivor
Mock Trial of the Civil War
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Taking Global Collaboration and Skype Beyond Mystery Skypes
Flattening Classroom Walls: Connecting with Cadiz, Spain using Skype
3D Print Ornament Challenge – A design project open to anyone in the world
Young Engineers of Today Spring Lab 5: PVC Trebuchet Part 2
Young Engineers of Today Spring Lab 4: PVC Trebuchet
Young Engineers of Today: Spring Lab 3: Soldering 101
Eagle Eye On The World – A global project focused on Liberty and Justice. Here is the blog that has links to past years of projects. This is coming back for the 2015-2016 school year.
Power of International Collaboration: Iowa to Africa
Here is a Sway with more Project Ideas
Billboard Design Video
STEAM Fest Video
Student Created Video for Checkers for Courtyard Project
What’s Next?
Teacher Exhibition
Taking Water Rockets to the Next Level(just a teaser)
Blog Posts on PBL
Project Based Learning: It’s More Than Projects!
Don’t Build a Makerspace Until You Create a Culture of Learning
“Is it really the goal of schools to create college and career ready students?”
4 Questions for PLC’s or Groups of Educators
How I Know Education Is Headed Down The Wrong Path
Because if we choose, then we are responsible, aren’t we?
When developing a lesson plan or unit ask yourself
What worked yesterday might not be right for today
The Key To Teaching AND Keeping Your Teacher Sanity
Technology is NOT an Education Revolution
What are the shortcomings of project based learning?
Project Based Learning – Project Tuning Experience
Books Worth Reading
Make Learning Personal by Barbara Bray & Kathleen McClaskey
Deeper Learning by Monica Martinez
Transforming Schools: Using PBL, Performance Assessment, And Common Core Standards
Leaders of the Their Own Learning
Deeper Learning
We have a Google Plus Community where we are holding ongoing discussions. Feel free to join us!
Teaching Channel Videos on Deeper Learning
This article is not directly talking deeper learning, but it is exactly just that! http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/19/maker-movement-reinvents-education-268739.html
Deeper Learning 2015 Conference Reflection
31 Days of Deeper Learning & PBL Blog Series | 3: Standardized Testing
31 Days of Deeper Learning & PBL Blog Series | 2: What is DL and PBL?
31 Days of Deeper Learning & PBL Blog Series | 1: Intro
My Dead Fish Showcases The Need for Deeper Learning
Visible Learning: Agree to Disagree?
Even In Failure There Is A Gift
How Can Robert Palmer Help You Become A Better Educator?
Proximity <=> Creativity and Collaboration
Additional Resources
Link to a page with many resources. This needs to be reorganized again, but it will give you some ideas.