Category: educators

educators, parents, facilitating and supporting learning #engEd

engineering 4 kids

This is a work in progress, but we think it is a reasonable way to go. Think Wikipedia meets Boys … More

Ask questions

What is one essential skill that can facilitate all learning? What can we do in order to learn more, produce … More

bring your own

We surveyed 135 7th graders about smartphones. Most kids had them. Although school doesn’t have any BYO.. program, many kids … More

engineering design process

Putting the E in STEM… How about adding an engineering component to Social Studies? Gee, we never thought of that! … More

activity-appropriate device

Good article from Edutopia – Challenging the Model of 1:1 with BYOD how to effectively integrate their new devices, we … More

proof of concept

We made good progress today in discussions for implementing proof of concepts for the technology planning and implementation process Technology … More

tweets

Some of our best friends tweet. James Zach Zacharias ‏ @archaeology1492 – Senior Curator of Education and Curator of History … More

smartphone use…

My students use their phones as calculators and to search for data and answers to research questions.  The sixth graders … More

science activity outline

We are looking for no-cost, no-impact on resources activities that are well connected to the learning outcome. Maybe come up … More

Moving to handheld

Rather than come up with additional activities, kids have the option of doing the same activities using only their smartphone. … More