What first struck me about Incline Elementary School when I pulled up to the building is how a well-dressed man greeted every car, opening the door for the student and watching to make sure they made ...

This semester Lyndsay Munro, teaching professor and general chemistry coordinator, introduced a new assignment in her chemical synthesis laboratory course. The assignment was to build a model of a ...

Access to the internet and technology in San Francisco's Chinatown is often not available or unaffordable for many children and their families, but a nonprofit is hoping to change that with its new ...

Excitement about school makerspaces has been in the air, but many educators eager to create hands-on learning spaces in their schools still aren’t sure how to get started or why it’s worth the effort.

Everyone is a maker in some way, shape or form. Makers are people who want to create something – from innovators to small business owners, DIYers, artists, hobbyists and everyone in between. At the ...

Once a school district has completed the initial planning phase of their makerspace initiative — as described in a previous THE Journal article — it's time to let teachers and students start tinkering ...

Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has established an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub dedicated exclusively to teaching students. The initiative — the AI Makerspace — was launched in ...

In a recent edWebinar, hosted by edWeb.net, Michelle Luhtala, library department chair, and Donna Burns, technology integrator, both from New Canaan High School (NCHS) in Connecticut, showcased the ...

In a curriculum-based maker project, for example, their first graders did a reading study on leprechauns. In the makerspace, they prototyped leprechaun traps and set them before spring break, then ...

Anchor Bay Middle School South students are tinkering with their education, and their creativity could spread to other classrooms, as well. The school in Chesterfield Township began designing a ...

Despite all the press makerspaces receive, not all are successful. Oftentimes when schools create makerspaces, excitement builds for the first few weeks as students create and explore. But as time ...