Career & Technical Ed
Posts by Aimee Bartis
STEM & Maker
Making in a Middle School
This year we decided to create a MakerSpace elective at our 5-8 middle school. We offered it to incoming 6th graders on their course selection guides at the end of 5th grade, and we limited the class to 20 students. I was thrilled when the class filled quickly and had a waiting list!
Future of Learning
Smart Review | Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom
Now more than ever, students must be taught how to be media literate, and after reading Frank Bakers "Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom" I think teachers have exactly the resource they need to get started.
EdTech
Sir Ken Robinson’s ‘Creative Schools’: Change We All Want & Deserve
Sir Ken Robinson, with collaborator Lou Aronica, does what he does best in his latest book, Creative Schools. Robinson does an excellent job of highlighting what is going right in education, while asking questions about how we can do better.
Personalized Learning
How Essential Questions Drive Purposeful Learning
Essential Questions promote student learning in a number of ways. When teachers use essential questions they model important skills to students and show them the types of questions they should be asking themselves.
EdTech
Smart Review | Write Out Loud
Write Out Loud is a must-have for high school students preparing to write college essays. In Write Out Loud, Barash walks you through her storytelling course. The book is divided into four parts: Find, Shape, Perform, and More Tools for Your Journey.
EdTech
Smart Review | The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
In the fall of 2010, Mark Zuckerberg dropped himself smack in the middle of that debate. Appearing on the Oprah show with New Jersey’s Republican Governor Chris Christie and Newark’s Democratic Mayor Cory Booker, he announced a 100 million dollar ‘challenge grant’ for Newark. Did it work? That's the focus of Russakoff's new book.
Personalized Learning
Changes in the Student Brain: A Review of Age of Opportunity
Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence is a game changer in understanding the developing brain of millennials.
Personalized Learning
The Digital Citizenship Primer EVERY Student Needs: Become an iMature Student
Become an iMature Student is an excellent book full of much needed information and recommend for Technology Directors, Technology Specialists and Teachers as a quick reference guide to what students need to know to be successful in todays digital age.
EdTech
Engaging Students with QR Code Matching
At my ISTE poster session on student Tech Camp, I showed a QR code matching game that I use for hardware and software terminology. Many people liked the idea. Here’s how to do it!
EdTech
Smashing Tools
App Smashing is using 2 or more apps to complete a project. Tool smashing works the same way but is not confined to a single device. My school is all Apple so my tool smashing does stay on the same platform. But your’s doesn’t have to.