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Scratch that low floor but high ceiling!
Learning Creative Learning: Projects We’re onto the second week of the Learning Creative Learning course offered by MIT’s Media Lab. Last week was the introduction and they covered their Learning...
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Students Learning to Code: Scope & Sequencing Tensions?
Beautiful building in Naples… This is week 4 of the Learning Creative Learning MOOC delivered by MIT’s Medialab and developers of Scratch computer programming language for children. We’re covering...
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Lifelong Kindergarten: PLAY!
Playing with Lego Mindstorms This is week 5 of the 6 week MOOC course by MIT’s Media Lab called “Learning Creative Learning“. We have been covering the 4 Ps of Creative Learning: Projects,...
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Infinite Loop: Sharefaire-ing is Caring
Chomping Alligator with Lego We-Do I’m at the last week of the 6 week MOOC offered by MIT called “Learning Creative Learning“. In prior weeks, we covered their 4Ps of Creative Learning: Projects,...
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Infinitely Loopy Times
Learning Spiral by MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group and Learning Creative Learning I’ve been spending a lot of time curating articles about Coding in the elementary school. I usually collect them...
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#Gritty #Scratchy Inaugural Primary School Global Codeathon 2014
Global Codeathon 2014 Poster Learning to Code takes grit! It’s not like playing a computer game where you can get successes right away and instant gratification. Yesterday was the inaugural Primary...
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Infinite Loop Coding Club–Update 1
The afterschool “Infinite Loop Coding Club” has been running for about two weeks now. I thought I would take some time to write a blogpost about what has been happening for parents. I hope that your...
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Become a Ninja Scratch Cat!
Do all five challenges and receive this digital Ninja Scratch Cat Badge! 5 Summer Scratch Challenges I’ve came across a brilliant opportunity for students to continue their learning through the summer....
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Coetail Graduation Final Project—-Journey of an Infinitely Loopy Coding Teacher
For further information on what is discussed on my video, please scroll to the bottom for website links. Journey of an infinitely loopy coding teacher For my Coetail Graduation Final Project, I chose...
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How to Flatten a Cat
Swiss Scratch Cat by @jennysfen Coding Rockstars We may be Coding Rockstars but we don’t do nasty stuff like many Rockstars We’re going to flatten the Scratch Cat, though! Some of you may have...
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Coding Rockstars in Switzerland “rock” Code Week Europe 2014
CodeEU Week in Switzerland 2014 This is what happens when a number of passionate teachers with bold, risk-taking, learner-mindsets about technology get together to plan a joint-schools event If...
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Sonic & Raspberry Pi in the Sky
Click here to view the embedded video. video above: snippits of Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi, live-coding with Sonic Pi on a Raspberry Pi. Setting the Stage Through serendipity (probably via...
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TECHXture: More than staring at screens
caption: I needed a computer to make these organza butterflies for this jacket I sewed for my daughter Online Twitter connections become Face2Face Professional Development Several weeks back, a number...
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Doing a Prezzie at ECIS Technology Conference 2015
ECIS is the European Council of International Schools. They have an ed tech conference every two years. This year, the ECIS Technology Conference will be at Bavarian International School. My first...
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First, Scratch then We-Do LEGO
The alligator has been coded to chomp down when he senses something in his mouth. The Soccer Goalie has been programmed to stop trying to block, when the ball has already gone through the goal...
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Make Space for Maker-Spaces, ECIS ED Tech Conference Munich 2015
Make Space for Maker-Spaces On Friday March 20, 2015, I attended a session at the ECIS Ed Tech 2015 Conference entitled “Make Space for Maker-Spaces“. The speaker was Mark Shillitoe from Etoy GEMS...
View ArticleComputational Thinking for Educators Course
What is Computational Thinking? The word “Computational Thinking” has been bandied around educational circles for the last couple of years. It’s a confusing term and one that I am not too sure about,...
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Be still my beating Arduino heart!
E-Textiles My “Maker-Education Summer” is humming along well. My kids and I have been busy Canadian beavers trying out the projects from Sew Electric. Sew Electric book & kit Electric Sewing,...
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Christmas in July
Christmas Tree: Soft Circuits & Programming The summer is flying by. In-between saving democracy in Canada and battling to eradicate prejudice, ignorance, and bigotry via Twitter , I’ve...
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Program your holiday sweater!
Click here to view the embedded video. See my sweater in action in the above youtube clip. It took a LOT of persevering, but I was finally successful at adding some “sparkle” to my sweater. This was...
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