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2017 EDUCATION MAGAZINE
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS MARCH 1, 2017
A new push for “deeper learning”
and “21st century skills” has
caused many educators to turn
to alternative teaching methods
than has been used to achieve
“standards attainment” under the
recently-expired No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001.
The past couple of years has seen
many new advances and initiatives
in the education field, including
new technologies, assessments and
pedagogies. Many of these are
making their way into classrooms
across the country, but on a local
level, you would be hard pressed
to find a school as immersed in
the new “maker movement” than
western Logan County school
district New Holland-Middletown
#88.
A paradigm in education, known
as “design thinking,” is a method
of instruction that discourages the
production of a single answer, but
multiple solutions to problems.
NH-M has been actively
implementing such approaches
in their district initiatives for a
number of years, but has most
recently seen success. The
culminating achievement for the
district arrived with the receipt of a
large monetary grant to transform
an unused classroom into a 21st
century “maker space.”
The so-called “maker movement”
involves schools providing
students with tools and problems
that they must solve, or “make,”
on their own. NH-M has had the
tools in place for nearly four years
with its early adoption of providing
ubiquitous Internet access and
a device to every student in its
district.
Moving to the
‘Maker Movement’
NH-M 88:
From the New Holland-Middletown ESD #88, Superintendent Todd Dugan
Continued
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