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Tech Buddies: Building Technology Skills through Peer Teaching
Take a look at this innovative practice used at John Barry Elementary School in Meriden, CT.
Explore more of this district’s useful resources.
Maker Education (Poster)
Talking Ed.: 3D Printing Lab
Talking Ed. with Cody Behles
Episode 010 (View entire series)
Cody Behles provides background on 3D printing and highlights some of the powerful ways that it can be used in schools.
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Developing Young Authors with Storybird #aaim14
I’m enjoying being in Ft. Smith, Arkansas for the 2014 Arkansas Association of Instructional Media Conference. Below are my slides from the workshop that I facilitated yesterday. All the workshop materials and resources (including a video tutorial, additional examples, notes, etc.) are available on my wiki, Learning Telecollaboratively. The slides also include a link to a special download containing information for using Storybird in preparation for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment.
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories, presentations, reports, or tutorials you and your students make to share, read, and print. Storybird is a fun, collaborative website that can be integrated in all content areas and at all grade levels. It can be an effective resource for teaching parts of a story, the writing process, promoting creativity, and more. STEM and social studies teachers can use Storybird for engaging alternatives to traditional lessons, reports and presentations. Storybird also seamlessly keeps a portfolio of each student’s work.
Participants will be guided in setting up accounts and helped as they begin using Storybird.com’s tools and services. Participants will learn how to use the teacher-specific tools.
Student Film from Perkins School for the Blind
(See Part 1)
I recently blogged about one of the producers from the hit TV show, Friends, teaching filmmaking at Perkins School for the Blind. It’s a remarkable example of how technology continues to empower those that are “differently-abled.” The NBC news story that served as the primary source for my blog post included a reference to a student-film that resulted from this class. Enjoy this powerful message from three Perkins students.
Screenshot Source: PSB1829
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- “Friends” Producer Helps Blind Filmmakers Find Vision [Must See Video] (clifmims.com)
- Blind filmmaking students may lack sight, but not vision, says their teacher (rockcenter.nbcnews.com)
3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures off the Page
“It’s a pen that can draw in the air! 3Doodler is the 3D printing pen you can hold in your hand. Lift your imagination off the page!” (Source)
“Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time. Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space” (Source).
Learn more about 3Doodler.
Hat tip to one of my co-authors, Sharon Smaldino, for bringing this to my attention.
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- The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures in Real Time (thisiscolossal.com)
- 3Doodler pen lets you hand-draw 3D structures (wired.co.uk)
- World’s first 3D printing pen hits the market (smartplanet.com)
Build. Make. Hack. Grow. Every Kid Can Be a Maker with DIY Club.
“DIY is a club for kids to earn Skills. DIY Makers share their work with the community and get patches for the Skills they earn. Each Skill consists of a set of Challenges that help them learn techniques to get the hang of it. Once a Maker completes a Challenge, they add photos and video to their Portfolio to show what they did.
Makers are curious about the world and strive to learn all kinds of practical knowledge and share it. They seek adventure in the outdoors, participate in communities, use technology to innovate, and have the confidence to try new things” (Source).
Take a look at DIY.org and consider the positive impact it can make in your family, classroom, club, civic group, etc.
“Creativity now is as important in education as literacy,
and we should treat it with the same status.”
–Sir Ken Robinson
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- A Gamified Web 2.0 Tool To Make Students Into DIY Makers (edudemic.com)
- DIY for Kids – Do Challenges, Earn Skills (freetech4teachers.com)
- We just released an epic video anthem we made ourselves…. (zachklein.com)
Bring on the Learning Revolution!
“In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.
Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.” (Source)
“Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.” — Sir Ken Robinson
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- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! (planetizen1network.wordpress.com)
- The Educational Revolution…Why? Because Schools Kill Creativity (vickycolas.wordpress.com)
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, (planetizen1network.wordpress.com)
- Bring on a Climate Change in Education (Part II) (busiconics.wordpress.com)
How Would Your Classroom Be Different?
THINKING OUT LOUD
Episode 009