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Maker education is an offshoot of the maker movement, which Time magazine described as "the umbrella term for independent innovators, designers and tinkerers. A convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans, the niche is established enough to have its own magazine, Make, as well as hands-on Maker Faires that are catnip for DIYers who used to toil in solitude". [3]
In 2012, Silver founded Makey Makey: An Invention Kit for Everyone – a toy that allows users to connect everyday objects (e.g. fruit, silverware) to computer programs – through a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $500,000. [12]
The Address Book in Desktop Gold helps you keep track of email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, birthdays, and anniversaries of your contacts. You can sort your Address Book by last name, first name, email address, screen name, telephone number, or category. Just use the Quick Find box to easily search through your contacts. Add a ...
Sean Parker (born December 3, 1979) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the file-sharing computer service Napster, and was the first president of the social networking website Facebook.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced a private sector effort entitled “LA Rises” to rebuild Los Angeles communities on Tuesday after days of devastation caused by wildfires. Newsom ...
Sylvia Libow Martinez an American engineer whose book Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom [1] co-authored with Gary S. Stager has been acknowledged as the "bible" of the school Maker Movement. She, with this one book, is largely collected by libraries worldwide.
By Daniel Trotta and Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Some 30,000 education workers backed by the teachers' union walked off the job for a three-day strike in Los Angeles on Tuesday, canceling school ...
Rebecca Constantino founded Access Books in 1999 while doing graduate research on the roles of school and community libraries in Los Angeles. [3] Working with a school in Brentwood, she discovered a plan to throw away hundreds of books to make way for new ones. She salvaged the rejected books and donated them to a public school in Compton. The ...