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A Call to Remake the Maker Faire

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Dougherty convened the first Maker Faire in 2006 in San Mateo, Calif., The faire became a way to foster a sense of community and to give people a place to celebrate and share what they made. Like a sports season or a date to perform a play, Maker Faires became a rallying moment for students. So Maker Faires bloomed.

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Why Colleges Should Pay Attention to Strikes by Their Most Precarious Teachers

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There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. We didn't know we’d be forced to go on strike, but we had to get a fair contract.” The nation’s adjuncts are rising up. In the end, after a year of contract negotiations, they won a big jump in pay and benefits. Our labor is our power,” Higer told me recently. “We

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.

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?Do or DIY: What We Saw (and Loved) at the 2017 Maker Faire

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This weekend marked San Mateo’s annual gathering of hackers, hobbyists and freak flag flyers: the Maker Faire. Back for its 12th year in the Bay Area, the Maker Faire is home to everything from drone racing, bicycle-powered music stages and even 32-foot tall towering Sextant Tesla Coils. LASERS ABOUND in the Dark Room at Maker Faire.

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Can Teachers Read Books Out Loud Online? Actually, Yes.

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The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. As instructors and learners adapt to new educational environments, copyright concerns about reading aloud need not be among the challenges they face.

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Recalibrating Our Approach To Misinformation

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This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. In the past year, many educational institutions began to address the challenge of digital misinformation.

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A Simple Kindness Generator to Keep Digital Interactions Humane

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We decided to build a tool instead, something that would reduce the cognitive load of our message and reach people in drips instead of a thousand-word opus that would require too much attention, too much parsing, too much translation to daily practice. Right now, people don’t need another request for their attention. (If

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