I would love to share my experience in a primary school in Italy. The school is located in a peripheral neighborhood where there is a lack of structured opportunities or places to socialize. The origin of the inhabitants is heterogeneous and often there is no family support network. The area is characterized by a constantly… Read more »

Doing he Quilt project which used Lynx was an interesting and enlightening experience. To do a learning project during packed working day actually brought me joy and gave me time to think and reflect in a “student”’s perspective. To give students enough choices would result in more possibilities to their learning outcome. This could require… Read more »

Ilaria La Manna is an extraordinary children’s educator and director of Fab Lab Argentina, who works with FabLat, an organization that connects children and educators learning and making all over Latin America.  She is in Boston taking some courses and generously offered to connect our Fab Lab to a network of Fab Labs doing an… Read more »

This is a guest blogpost by our talented Tufts University Tisch Summer Fellow, Michelle Nguyen, who conducted research with Boston’s Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn program.  Annually, our teen youth teachers teach 700+ children at over 25 community organizations. We have high expectations that our youth always exceed.  As our program name suggests, we… Read more »

I’ve been an education organizer for Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn for a dozen years. Many of our youth have moved on to college and beyond and sometimes I lose track of them.  So, late one night I decided to google “Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn” to see what came up. To my… Read more »

As a maker-educator, I love Twitter and have many Twitter maker friends who inspire my practice. Recently, my Twitter friend @joshburker (who recently published a rockin’ maker guide you definitely want to buy!) did a light-up electric cuff soft circuit project with his senior citizen technology group at the library. This past summer, we made… Read more »

This is the third of a series of posts documenting the progression of a collaborative project at the South End Technology Center @ Tent City supported by the Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean’s Equity Project.  The goal was to create a safe and creative space for high school and college youth to explore their… Read more »

In August, while I was thinking about for a simpler laser cut project to teach Inkscape and the laser cutter in my 8th grade history class this year, I happened upon two things at about the same time. One was a blog post by Sylvia Martinez about starting the year with making (http://sylviamartinez.com/back-to-school-start/) and the… Read more »

In 2011, I became the 5th and 6th grade science teacher at the Hillbrook School. That same year the school undertook an audit of the science program for areas of strength, as well as areas for improvement. Simultaneously, the Next Generation Science Standards, emphasizing problem solving and engineering, had just been released, and that spring… Read more »