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Constructing Modern Knowledge 2012 at Manchester, NH

July 9, 2012 to July 12, 2012

Constructing Modern Knowledge is back for a fifth consecutive year, July 9-12, 2012 in Manchester, NH. This year’s CMK 2011 promises to be bigger and better than ever before.Guest speakers include award-winning filmmaker Casey Neistat; MIT Media Lab professor and Lilypad Arudino inventor,…See More

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Constructing Modern Knowledge 2012

July 9, 2012 to July 12, 2012 – Manchester, NH

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My School Year In Review: Art Car

As I gear up for summer program, I will be taking a little time to reflect on my past year. My bosses at work have kept me on as a teacher, although I smell the terrifying and exciting smell of change in the air.

On May 22nd, my students (and I) participated in the 2011 Art Car Parade. You can catch some parade pictures…

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Posted by Patrick Waters on June 16, 2011 at 11:31pm

Chasing the Art Car Parade

Putting the first coat on this week:

Posted by Patrick Waters on April 30, 2011 at 11:50am

Learning environments and makers

As I look at learning through making, there appear to be a few separate and important distinctions. Each of these types of learners seems to require slightly or radically different information, information delivery, supply sets and support structures. This is my personal take on these learning situations, based on first hand knowledge as a curious person trying things out as a solo experimenter, facilitator of after school group and frequent flyer at several community learning centers and…

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Posted by Chris Connors on February 20, 2011 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

Programming Play

This project is similar to the Program a Person project from a few years ago. The main idea is to create a format for teaching programming through combining storytelling and object oriented code.

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Posted by Chris Connors on February 13, 2011 at 8:26am

Makezine listed as #1 education site by The Telegraph

Many of you on Make:Education are also avid readers of Make:Online, so you will be delighted to hear that yesterday The Telegraph named our podcasts their number one Education site. I am very proud to work with all the folks who are putting out such quality videos. And I thought this would be a good time to suggest that if you're not regularly reading makezine.com , you should make…

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Posted by Michelle Hlubinka on February 2, 2011 at 8:58pm