Paulo Blikstein,Sylvia Libow Martinez,Heather Allen Pang: Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces

Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces


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A learning revolution is in the making around the world. Enthusiastic educators are using the new tools and technology of the maker movement to give children authentic learning experiences beyond textbooks and tests. The Stanford University FabLearn Fellows are a group of K-12 educators working at the forefront of this movement in all corners of the globe. They teach in Fab Labs, makerspaces, classrooms, libraries, community centers, and museums-all with the goal of making learning more meaningful in the modern world. In this book, the 2014-2015 FabLearn Fellows share inspirational ideas from their learning spaces, assessment strategies and recommended projects across a broad range of age levels. Illustrated with color photos of real student work, the Fellows take you on a tour of the future of learning, where children make sense of the world by making things that matter to them and their communities. To read this book is to rediscover learning as it could be and should be-a joyous, mindful exploration of the world, where the ultimate discovery is the potential of every child.

* Self-assessment tests to help you identify your particularsensitivities This is a fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff's two years' service during 1980/ 81 with the 1st Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African 'bush war' in South Meaningful Making: Projects and Inspirations for Fab Labs and Makerspaces download ebook West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the standard counter-insurgency activities of Fireforce operations, such as ambushing, patrols and contacting and destroying SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several conventional cross-border operations with the South African Defence Force (SADF). Having grown up as an East Rand rebel street-fighter, Korff's military career is marred with controversy. He was always in trouble; going AWOL on the eve of battle in order to get to the front; facing a court martial for beating up and reducing to tears a sergeant-major in front of the troops; fist-fighting with Drug Squad agents; arrested at gunpoint after the gruelling seven-week, 700km Recce selection endurance march- these are but some of the colourful anecdotes that lace this account of service in the SADF. About the Author Granger Korff was born on the East Rand near Johannesburg in 1960."The apartheid system was sewn tight as a Zulu drum and the country moved to a slow beat," he says of the times.


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Author: Paulo Blikstein,Sylvia Libow Martinez,Heather Allen Pang
Number of Pages: 158 pages
Published Date: 12 May 2016
Publisher: Constructing Modern Knowledge Press
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780989151191
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