{"id":50758,"date":"2015-06-15T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=50758"},"modified":"2015-06-15T12:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T16:42:04","slug":"what-we-learn-from-making-walsh-at-gse-harvard-edu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/06\/15\/what-we-learn-from-making-walsh-at-gse-harvard-edu\/","title":{"rendered":"What we learn from making [Walsh at gse.harvard.edu]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ukHeadline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/news\/uk\/15\/05\/what-we-learn-making\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>What we learn from making<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from gse.harvard.edu by Bari Walsh<br \/>\n<em>New insights, new tools help educators expand the possibilities of maker-centered learning<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? It\u2019s often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation\u00a0\u2014 and it is probably both of these. But as a new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/pz.harvard.edu\" rel=\"nofollow\">Project Zero<\/a>\u2019s Agency by Design concludes, the real value of maker education has more to do with building character than with building the next industrial revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agencybydesign.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Maker-Centered-Learning-and-the-Development-of-Self_AbD_Jan-2015.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">white paper [PDF]<\/a> marking the end of its second year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agencybydesign.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Agency by Design (AbD)<\/a> finds that among the benefits that may accrue along the maker ed path, the most striking is the sense of inspiration that students take away \u2014 a budding understanding of themselves as actors in their community, empowered \u201cto engage with and shape the designed dimensions of their worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For some related resources, see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphite.org\/top-picks\/apps-and-websites-for-makers-and-creators\" target=\"_blank\">Apps and websites for makers and creators<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; from graphite.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphite.org\/top-picks\/apps-and-websites-for-makers-and-creators#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50763\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Maker-GraphicDotOrg2015.jpg\" alt=\"Maker-GraphicDotOrg2015\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Maker-GraphicDotOrg2015.jpg 746w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Maker-GraphicDotOrg2015-148x150.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we learn from making &#8212; from gse.harvard.edu by Bari Walsh New insights, new tools help educators expand the possibilities of maker-centered learning \u00a0Excerpt: What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? It\u2019s often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation\u00a0\u2014 and it is probably both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,7,87,423,173,84,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-spaces","category-love-of-learning","category-pedagogy","category-smart-classrooms","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50758"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50765,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50758\/revisions\/50765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}