Makerspace

We’ve awarded our EdTech grant for March to Andrew Nikola from the Wappingers Central School District in New York! Andrew works with students throughout K-12 and serves as one of the district’s innovation leaders. Learn more about how we’ll be helping them advance their district-wide approach to providing equitable hands-on experiences.

Designed for MakerEd experiences in Grades 3 and up, the Mayku FormBox helps spark creative product design, on-the-fly fixes, and innovative design thinking. Oh, and it’s on sale now through Feb. 28! Keep reading to find out how to access this limited-time deal on a versatile tool for design and maker education.

Under ordinary conditions, 3D printing is among the most popular avenues for technology teachers to take advantage of all of the advances in STEAM instructional tools. By combining both physical and digital construction, 3D printing helps students think like an engineer, solve pressing problems in a very unique way, collaborate with classmates, and a lot more.

With the 3D Build & Play, students can feed filament into the slot in the back of the device, which is shaped similarly to an electric drill. Once the strand of filament is in place, they can start cranking the lever to work it through the inside and get it ready to mold in their invention as they develop creativity

Since it was released a few months back, we’ve gotten the chance the try out the littleBits Educator Starter Kit, which essentially serves as a trial kit for educators interested in STEAM learning with littleBits. It’s one single littleBits kit and doesn’t include much more than teachers and students need to get started inventing with littleBits.

Not sure if littleBits would work in your classroom? The Educator Starter Kit is designed for one educator and 1-2 students to test out the littleBits invention system before committing to classroom, schoolwide, or district-wide implementation. STEAM lessons include everything from constructing simple circuits to coding the functions of servos!

We recently launched the newest addition to the littleBits line on our store. The littleBits Educator Starter Kit is designed to serve as an entry-level STEAM solution for teachers to gauge the effectiveness of the littleBits platform in their STEAM education initiatives. The kit is very much affordable and ready to use right out of the box.

For the first time, the Eduporium team will be exhibiting for the 2020 TCEA Conference! We are obviously really excited for this opportunity and, as we continue to grow and serve educators around the country, we’re excited to keep expanding the list of conferences we attend. Starting out on Tuesday Feb. 4, we will be exhibiting at Booth 220 and

The full title of this presentation is “Combining SEL, STEAM, and Maker Ed tools to increase student learning capacity.” If selected, we’ll be discussing the commonalities that STEAM and SEL efforts share as well as how some MakerEd tools help teachers create these experiences. Specifically, maker tools help teachers connect the heads, hearts, and hands of students.

It’s the last Eduporium Weekly post of the year and, as we get set to see what excitement 2020 will bring for us and the education community, we’re looking back at the most impactful topics we covered this year. Like every year, there were, of course, some important points to be made and key topics to be discussed by educators