This year, I’m convening a strand on Student Voices for the K12 Online Conference, and I’d like to invite you and especially the youth you work with to get involved. There are several ways you can participate: Ask your students
"Creativity in a box" – a new maker project
I’m in the midst of writing a grant for a new project that I’m really excited about. It’s for a local, cross-generational maker project based at our library. Here’s a brief description: Let’s Make: Creativity in a Box! The goal
Adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials – final report
[cross-posted from K12 Open Ed] As many of you know, I’ve spent much of this year working on a project to explore the adoption and implementation of K-12 core instructional materials and to explore business models for the successful and
Kids Maker Day 2015
This year’s Kids Maker Day (part of our local Heritage Days) is now behind us and was a big success as always. Our theme was flight. We had kids from ages 2 to 80 participate. (A couple adults said that
Marble games
It’s that time of year again, the confluence of CLMOOC with my planning for our annual kids maker day. (Our maker day is all-ages — we’ve had 2 year olds to adults — and has no technology involved.) This year’s
Passion-driven learning
I am very excited to be convening the Passion-Driven Learning strand of the K12 Online Conference this year. This is an approach I believe deeply in. We have an all-star line up covering vital topics such as genius hour, connected
It's Connected Educator Month!
This month of October, many educators around the world will be celebrating Connected Educator Month. This is a month full of activities to establish or deepen our online connections with others. Many of us have found that being “connected” has
Kids Maker Day 2014
This year’s kids maker day is over, and it was a great success. The planned program is shown here. When we hold this annual local event, we never know how many kids will come or what ages they will be.
K12 Online Conference 2014
I’ve written before about how valuable I think the K12 Online Conference is. For those unfamiliar, it’s a FREE, open, online conference open to ANYONE organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. Well, this
Make with Me: Remixing as Recycling
[cross-posted from iAnthology] Welcome to the second iAnthology “Make with Me.” Again, these “make” projects are super flexible, so please feel free to diverge from the suggestions in any way you like. This month we’re going to take some household