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#MakerED Vlog, ep II: Maker Education Pedagogy and Microbits Builds

In episode 2 of Caroline Keep’s exclusive Nexus Education Vlog series she talks us through the pedagogy of the Maker movement.
This episode sees Caroline talk to any potential Maker Movement teacher out there with her usual in depth knowledge, affable demeanour and intense enthusiasm. A must watch….

Here are links to all of the references in Caroline’s video:
Kitornics breakout boards are here – https://www.kitronik.co.uk/5601b-edge-connector-breakout-board-for-bbc-microbit-pre-built.html
David Kolb- Experiential learning https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=MBn_GG4AAAAJ&hl=en
John Dewey – https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=john+dewey+experience+and+education&oq=john+dewey
Jean Piaget https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cTHjEdMAAAAJ&hl=en …and finally a brief outline of Lev Vygotsky
https://www.simplypsychology.org/Zone-of-Proximal-Development.html

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Caroline Keep

Caroline is a physics teacher at Penketh High School in Warrington. She is also the Director of Spark Penketh, the first school Makerspace in the UK embedding making across the curriculum and she has just won the 2018 TES New Teacher of the Year award for her work on STEAM learning! Caroline is also the co- founder of Liverpool Makefest, a festival to promote science, technology, engineering, art and maths and maker-education for young people. The festival is now in its fourth year and attracts over 5000 visitors annually. Caroline is also Founder of the Society of School Makerspaces, a founder member of the Guild of Makers and co-founder of the MakerNoise unconference on creativity, learning and maker education. Winner of the Nexus-Education ‘Edtech/ STEM’ blog award.

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