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Maker-Centered Learning

Now available—Agency by Design’s new book, Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape their Worlds.

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AbD Oakland Fellowship

Meet this year’s project Fellows in Oakland, CA in a blog post by Oakland Leadership Team member Brooke Toczylowski

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AbD Online Course

Thinking and Learning in the Maker-Centered Classroom, a new online course offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, enrolling now for September 2017!

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Educator Resources

Check out the AbD thinking routines and conceptual framework to support maker-centered learning in your home teaching and learning context.

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WHAT IS AbD?

Making Thinking Happen The official blog of the Agency by Design project

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Educators in the Pittsburgh Maker Educator Learning Community use different sized rocks to make their values visible.

How Can Understanding What We Value as Educators Shape What We Assess in Our Classrooms?

Agency by Design guest authors Jeff Evancho and Peter Wardrip discus the values-based approach they have taken towards thinking about documentation and assessment with the Pittsburgh Maker Educator Learning Community.

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Educators designed and constructed their own notebooks for their "summer school" workshops.

Agency by Design in Translation

Agency by Design Project Manager Jessica Ross visits Bilbao and puts the Spanish translations of the team’s thinking routines into action.

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What does "community making" look like in a #FabLab learning environment? #fab13santiago #makered

Educators from IU1 use PPI to situate their #FabLab within a system #fab13Santiago #makered

Looking closely and exploring complexity with educators at #fab13santiago #makered