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"Making" in California K-12 Education

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by David Malpica - Wed, 01/28/2015 - 06:47

A brief state of affairs

In schools, “maker” education has been typically known for many years as hands-on project based learning (PBL). While “maker” education continues to deepen its roots in small pockets of the nation’s private education, the introduction and implementation of “making” into California public education still has a long road to go. Efforts are underway to provide access to “making” opportunities to more and more students.

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Freire and the Classroom

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by David Malpica - Thu, 03/27/2014 - 04:36

Whenever I read Freire I feel inspired. And then I think about the realities of the classroom... How to implement problem posing education so that it is omni-present in the school environment? Is that even something that he proposed and imagined? Is there a place on earth where this is happening? How do they do it? Whenever I think of this I almost always conclude it is a matter of numbers. How to engage in dialogue with the student when there are twenty to thirty (a half if you are lucky) minds all eager to do so?

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Pedagogy and Theory

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