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Learning Creative Learning ( #LCL17 ) – Week 2 Reflections
Week 2 is devoted to Projects, and we were asked to focus on learning through making, and to reflect on the creative process through the Creative Learning Spiral. Coding was introduced as a new form of fluency and self-expression, and we were invited to start making projects by using #scratch to animate our name. I have…
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My New Makerspace
Following a long-standing habit of remaking myself every few years, I have renamed my former “Teaching/Learning & Technology” blog “Ruthk’s Makerspace,” and started off in a new direction. For the past few years I have been devoting time at the elementary school where I volunteer as a tutor/mentor to help teachers and school administrators make…
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Internet use ‘good for the brain’
I have been an enthusiastic web proponent since my first webmaster job in 1996. I had expected that the web would look like TV, and it was a surprise to see that it was really just a lot of text files with just an occasional picture thrown in. But what access to information! I was…