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Celebrating MOUSE: 15 Years of Engaging Kids, Narrowing Divide

MOUSE celebrated their 15th Anniversary on May 20th with a student led exhibit demonstrating the latest technologies and by h...

Charter School Authorizing 2.0

Within the richness and diversity of the ed reform sector, the practice of charter school authorizing isn’t the trendiest. ...

Australian Study Points to Benefits of Games-Based Math

Dr. Kristy Goodwin of Macquarie University studied what she calls Digital Games Based Learning (DGBL) including the deploymen...

Educator Resuscitation 101: A Prerequisite for Summer Learning

I need to admit something. I am dead. Dead-tired. Exhausted. Fatigued. Drained. Emotionally and physically spent. And no, I d...

Building STEM Skills by Learning Game Design

Alex Chisholm, Executive Director of the Learning Games Network describes the journey to the HP Catalyst Academy as grant rec...

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Yesterday DIY.org launched a Stories section featuring videos of real kids using DIY.

2 months ago by Tom Vander Ark

High School Wind Energy Project Inspires College Careers in STEM

Wind is the fastest growing source of renewable energy in the world today and the students at Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, Maine, have learned that first hand. Six months after the commissioning of the school’s NPS 100 wind turbine, the students, teachers and community have grown accustomed to the 1...

7 months ago by Guest Author

It’s Student in Action, Not Inaction

The natural state of children is “in motion.” They are not simply pictures, they are motion pictures. A classroom full of third graders is a lot like a pool of sharks, except scarier. We are all aware of this natural state of activity yet we’ve managed to take our adult cubical workspace and force it upon the cl...

9 months ago by Adam Renfro

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Project-Based Blends

Proejct-Based Learning is a great way to engage students and encourage deeper learning. Blended environments makes it easier to create time for projects. New tools make it easier to create consistently rigorous projects. Digital learning makes it easier to build skills to successfully participate in a PBL environmen...

one year ago by Tom Vander Ark

Digital Portfolios for Primary Students

“Mrs. Cassidy, I showed my blog to my parents last night. I showed them everything on my blog. I showed them all the things on the computer!” That was my morning greeting from one of my six-year-old students not long ago. He had received a surplus computer1 from my school division the day before, and had suddenly b...

one year ago by Guest Author

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MIND Research Institute

The nonprofit MIND Research Institute is dedicated to solving math education in America through its cutting-edge approach to teaching and learning math. Its uniquely visually-based ST Math instructional software program is helping children across the country dramatically improve their math proficiency and become life-l...