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‘Maker’ learning and ‘maker spaces’: an overview

Published on: 4/25/19

The following extract is from the research paper Education, Knowledge, and Learning. An overview of theories and research about constructionism and making by Lorraine Charles, ...

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[Video] Frontier learners

Published on: 3/28/19

Janecke Aarnaes, Founding Head of School at Dwight School Dubai, delivered this keynote at our Learning by Making reception, hosted by KHDA.

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[Video] Reflections on education: forward thinking

Published on: 3/19/19

This keynote was delivered at our Learning by Making reception, hosted by KHDA, by Sarah Adil Shaw, Head of Strategy Department at the Executive Office of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin ...

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Video: bringing social constructionism to the classroom

Published on: 3/12/19

This keynote was delivered at GESS Dubai 2019, by Stuart Swann, Physical Computing Curriculum Lead at pi-top

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From code to cake! A recipe for 'learning by making' for younger children

Published on: 3/4/19

In this essay, two of pi-top's learning team explore how to bring social constructionism and learning by making to the under 12s.

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Why is it hard to learn about learning (a brief history of indoor lighting)

Published on: 2/28/19

This keynote was delivered at our Bett Show 2019 fringe event, Learning by Making, by Dr William Rankin PhD, Founder of Unfold Learning and former Director of Learning & Research ...

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Video: Dr Jessica Wade on science, making, education and gender

Published on: 2/15/19

We're big fans of Jess' work, both the cool stuff she researches in her 'day job', and her mission to get more girls and young women into physics and material sciences.

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What is school for?

Published on: 1/16/19

Article by Graham Brown-Martin My 10-year-old daughter asked my 80-year-old mother what school had been like when she was little. My mother said, “Probably the same”, and while I ...

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A round-the-world quest to discover the secret of learning

Published on: 1/3/19

Article by Alex Beard “Schooling is not the same as learning,” wrote the authors of the World Bank’s World Development Report for 2018, the first of its kind to be devoted ...

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The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today's students

Published on: 12/13/18

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