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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

They have probably about a dozen or so different apps that you can download — and many of them are free. OH, we can download this. Karen Bosch Is the PreK – 8 Technology Instructor at Southfield Christian School in the Metro Detroit area, a position she has held since 2001. Some are interactive games. That was Day 1.

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Live Tuesday, May 1st - Larry Johnson on the NMC Horizon Project

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

With over one million downloads in the past nine years, the NMC Horizon Report series serves the higher education, K-12, and museum communities across the globe in their desire to understand the impact of emerging technologies on their chosen field or discipline. Johnson , Ph.D.

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It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

The Hechinger Report

More than 50 years later, 152 schools in the EL (short for Expeditionary Learning) Education network are doing just that, and the network recently created a grades 3-8 curriculum that has been downloaded nearly 8 million times. I thought, school ought to be like [a mountain expedition].