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Shoe Design Project
User Generated Education
MAY 23, 2019
As the final project of the school year, I asked a group of my gifted 4th through 6th graders to design and prototype a new type of shoe.
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Scratch and Makey Makey Across the Curriculum
User Generated Education
MARCH 11, 2019
I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world.
Game Jam: Creating a Video Game
User Generated Education
MAY 24, 2019
The Game Jam was developed for and offered through the Santa Fe Public Schools’ SAGE (Services for Advanced and Gifted Education) Program although any school or youth group could enter. The game categories were: Board, Card, Action, and Video games.
I Have a Dream: Authentic Learning
User Generated Education
MAY 5, 2019
I wrote a post earlier this year entitled, Authentic Learning Experiences. Some of the characteristics of authentic learning I identified are summarized in this graphic: The Task.
6 eLearning Trends in Custom eLearning Solutions
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Authentic Learning Experiences
User Generated Education
JANUARY 20, 2019
Providing authentic learning experiences to all learners should be the highest prior for all administrators, curriculum developers, and teachers.
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All Lessons Should Be Interdisciplinary
User Generated Education
JANUARY 12, 2019
I am not a fan of worksheets. In fact, I hate most of them. They don’t teach real world skills. How often does someone do worksheets outside of school? How often when they become adults?
Pi Day: An Example of an Interdisciplinary, Engaging Lesson
User Generated Education
MARCH 31, 2019
I have the privilege of teaching my gifted elementary students for multiple years.
Helping Learners Move Beyond “I Can’t Do This”
User Generated Education
JULY 24, 2017
I work part-time with elementary learners – with gifted learners during the school year and teaching maker education camps during the summer.
Making a Pitch for Social Entrepreneurship
User Generated Education
MARCH 18, 2019
I have done a social entrepreneurship unit with two groups of gifted students, grades 3rd through 6th. It was one of my favorite units. ever, and from their reactions, I believe it was one of theirs, too.
5 Costly Inventory Management Mistakes Schools Should Avoid
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Sustainable Development Goals: Writing Journals
User Generated Education
MARCH 24, 2019
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.
Choice + Imagination = Fantastic Results
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 28, 2018
The use of Destination Imagination (DI) has been recommended by my supervisor for use with gifted students. I teach gifted students at two Title 1 elementary schools. DI MISSION.
Why do we group students by manufacture date?
User Generated Education
AUGUST 18, 2018
Ken Robinson once famously said, “Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.” (Ken Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything ).
Elementary Social Entrepreneurship: A Perfect STEAM Lesson
User Generated Education
MAY 13, 2018
I am completing a social entrepreneurship unit with my gifted students, grades 2nd through 5th. It was one of my favorite units. ever, and from their reactions, I believe it was one of theirs, too. I call it a perfect STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) unit.
Custom eLearning: What to Consider as an L&D Manager
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My List of Top Ten Videos of 2018
User Generated Education
DECEMBER 22, 2018
I think we are living in amazing times whereby we can access and view high quality videos for free! I have selected some of my favorites from 2018. My criteria for their selection are that they made me laugh, cry, cheer, and/or made me feel inspired and hopeful.
Beginning the School Year With Connections: 2018
User Generated Education
AUGUST 12, 2018
I have written before about the beginning of the school year, Beginning the School Year: It’s About Connections Not Content. I begin all classes focusing on having the students make connections between each other and with me. I want students to learn about one another in a personal way.
Educators as Active Listeners
User Generated Education
APRIL 14, 2018
I have a few sayings I often use in my teacher education courses and PD workshops for teachers related to active listening. They include: If the teacher is doing more talking than the students, then this is a problem.
Focusing on the Process: Letting Go of Product Expectations
User Generated Education
DECEMBER 17, 2017
I am a process-oriented educator. I focus on how to learn rather than what to learn. I’ve addressed this in Freedom to Learn : In order to facilitate these desired elements of learning, I believe it is important to focus on the process of learning rather than the products of learning.
Key Elements for Successful eLearning Projects
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Gingerbread House Making: A Fun and Engaging Cross-Curricular Lesson
User Generated Education
DECEMBER 8, 2018
I believe that educators can be intentional in setting up environments where learners’ propensity to create flourishes. Some elements that can assist with this kind of unbridled making and creating include: Open ended projects that promote self-directed differentiation and personalization.
The World’s Largest Lesson: Global Goals Activities
User Generated Education
JANUARY 4, 2018
I have a strong belief that education should assist learners in developing the desire and skills for global stewardship. I discussed this in my post, Empathy and Global Stewardship: The Other 21st Century Skills [link].
Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners
User Generated Education
SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
Design thinking is an approach to learning that includes considering real-world problems, research, analysis, conceiving original ideas, lots of experimentation, and sometimes building things by hand.
Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) Displays: A Maker Education Project
User Generated Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
I have lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for a few decades. One of my favorite things about living here is that it celebrates and embraces Hispanic and Mexican cultural traditions. I have the privilege of working with gifted kids at two elementary schools with over 80% Hispanic students.
Teachers’ Guide to Plagiarism
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The Importance of Civics Education
User Generated Education
NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Truth be told, I always disliked history and government classes as a K through undergraduate student. I found it dry, boring, irrelevant, and unimportant. I believe this was due to it all being about memorization. memorizing events and dates in history; memorizing the branches of government; memorizing states and their capitols. This type of learning reflects only remembering, the lowest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Reflecting on Maker Experiences with Reflection Cards
User Generated Education
MARCH 10, 2018
I’ve discussed the importance of reflection in my Framework for Maker Education ; and specifically discussed reflecting on the maker experiences in several of my blog posts: Reflecting on the Making Process [link]. The Maker as a Reflective Practitioner [link].
Beginning the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content
User Generated Education
AUGUST 8, 2017
Assessing Maker Education Projects
User Generated Education
MAY 5, 2018
Institutionalized education has given assessment a bad reputation; often leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many teachers, students, and laypeople.
LMS Comparison: What Learning Solution is the Best Fit for Your Business?
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Simple and Rube Goldberg Machines: A Maker Education, STEAM Lesson
User Generated Education
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Recently I facilitated a simple machines leading into Rube Goldberg machines lesson with my gifted elementary students. As I’ve discussed in past blog posts, I use several criteria to guide my lesson design: Instructional challenges are hands-on and naturally engaging for learners.
Integrating Maker Education into the Curriculum
User Generated Education
JULY 5, 2018
Rather than the maker experiences being an after school program, an add on activity, or an activity that is implemented when students have done their regular lessons work, it should be part of the regular, day-to-day curriculum.
Robot-Enhanced Creative Writing and Storytelling (featuring Ozobot and Wonder’s Dot)
User Generated Education
MAY 15, 2018
There have been complaints leveraged against out of the box robots like Dash and Dot, Ozobot, Hummingbird, Sphero. The complaints usually revolve around the canned and prescriptive nature of their uses and programs, that they lack creative engagement by the younger users.
A Fuller Framework for Making in Maker Education
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 23, 2016
Background Information. I recently learned, for the first time, about Aristotle’s belief that there were three basic activities of humans: theoria (thinking), poiesis (making), and praxis (doing).
Today’s Curriculum for the Higher Ed HR Leader
Speaker: Joseph Clay, Business Transformation Strategist at Oracle, and Jeffrey Haynes, Director with Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Today’s universities and colleges face many challenges ranging from reconciling financial pressures, to ensuring student success, to managing complicated workforce dynamics. One thing they all have in common: Their head of HR must align the HR function to best support the institution as it navigates this current landscape.
Educators as Purveyors of Hope
User Generated Education
JANUARY 5, 2018
My advanced degree is in counseling. I sought this degree due to my affinity towards at-risk and adjudicated youth.
Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education
User Generated Education
JUNE 8, 2017
Post by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. jackiegerstein and Barbara Bray @bbray27. Crossed posted at [link]. If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building.
Teaching Elementary-Level Learners About the Brain
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Judy Willis in How to Teach Students About the Brain writes: If we want to empower students, we must show them how they can control their own cognitive and emotional health and their own learning. Teaching students how the brain operates is a huge step.
Qualities of Effective Educator Professional Development
User Generated Education
OCTOBER 7, 2017
Most administrators and teachers believe in the importance and value of professional development. Sadly, though, too many teachers believe that those mandatory, one-size-fits-all professional development sessions offered by their schools are a waste of time and money.
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