Educational Resources & Tech Tools 12/15/2016

• Free Technology Tools for Building Academic Vocabulary | LD Topics | LD OnLine

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• Writing & Spelling | LD OnLine

  Resources to help understand how learning disabilities affect writing and spelling and what strategies exist to help students.

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• Questions + Answers | LD OnLine

  This question and answers section of LD Online (Learning Disabilities) offers numerous topics for greater in depth exploration of ADHD and other common learning disabilities.

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• Support and Resources for Educators

  The Learning Diabilities Association provides curated lists of resources for students with a variety of learning differences.

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• An Inside Look at an Award-Winning Maker Program | Edutopia

  This article gives a good idea of how to scaffold a maker program and it is chock full of resources we can use to support those initiatives.

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  • Making matters. And design thinking matters to makers.
  • Eleven students, including four who had just graduated eighth grade, would spend the weekend explaining how design thinking drove our program’s work and their learning. Kids used student-built prototypes to explain how they employed design thinking to solve problems and make the world a better place.
  • We set up stations where Faire attendees got to experience prototyping for themselves, tackling design challenges based on the Extraordinaires Design Studio and expertly explained by our kids.
  • students would work with JeffDESIGN over the summer to learn valuable lessons about what it takes to get an idea from concept to production in the real world.
  • We have adopted the free and fabulous EPICS—Engineering Projects In Community Service—as the heart and soul of our program this year.
  • I love that the EPICS framework is just that—a framework. It provides a flexible structure I can modify as necessary to suit our processes and needs.
  • When we are done, we’ll have a powerful, document-driven, human-centered methodology to guide our work in design.
  • The new school year has gotten off to a good start. We’re creating an entirely new understanding of design thinking in Digital Shop, an amalgam of our shared past experiences and the practices of some of the world’s best design thinking practitioners. It’s ridiculously hard work, alternatively frustrating and exhilarating, but totally worth it.

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