How Can Schools Best Embrace The Maker Movement? is the newest “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your responses here or there…
How Can Schools Best Embrace The Maker Movement? is the newest “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column.
Feel free to leave your responses here or there…
This question is particularly challenging when viewed through the lens of the English curriculum. To me, the best way to incorporate this idea is through authentic, project based writing and via a 20% Time. If the students are using their writing for a purpose, and are trying to get results from it, then they are creating something.
Finally, I believe that a key component of the Maker Movement is the freedom to experiment. It is very easy in English to push the “rules” of writing. However, the spirit of the Maker Movement asks that we let students bend the rules and established paradigms in order to create something new. This can be done in the English classroom!