Career & Technical Ed
Posts by Adam Renfro
EdTech
Kodable: The First Step in Coding
Kodable makes programming education inviting for students at a young age. This is important for diversifying the computer science area, because it gets students interested and thinking about computer science before society has an opportunity to tell them that programming isn't cool or for girls.
EdTech
Saundz Like American English
Saundz curriculum is developed by phonology experts and it includes 37 chapters and 161 lesson dealing with 40 sounds of American English and some of the most problematic consonant groups.
EdTech
ExamTime: Make Studying an Active Process
Learning is a lifelong endeavour. Students need to take responsibility for their learning. Through our software, ExamTime empowers students to build best learning practices into their study habits – goal setting, personal learning styles, comprehension techniques, practice and testing and collaborative learning.
Personalized Learning
The Transition from Cursive to Coding
Programming pushes students to research, plan, outline, collaborate, test, troubleshoot, and retest. It’s brain intensive language study that requires syntax and style.
EdTech
DragonBox: This Is How You Gamify
DragonBox develops a user’s fundamental skills in algebra before teaching its context and application.
EdTech
Three Ring: Bringing Qualitative Work into Focus
Rescue forgotten student work from the bottom of backpacks or hidden in endless stacks of binders—everything is organized seamlessly and ready to be used for teaching and learning.
Leadership
The Power Hour – Curate Yourself
The Power Hour runs a single concept or idea through your own personal mind, body, spirit algorithm.
EdTech
MindMixer: It Takes a Community
Is there a way that we can build a platform that has the nuisance of engagement built into it but would allow for cities to more broadly engage their citizens in important civic topics and decisions within the realm of community?
Personalized Learning
Cracking the Talent Code
Your chain will eventually be broken. Life will happen. Guaranteed. Take this pledge: I understand that the chain will eventually be broken, but I won’t break the chain because I chose to break it.
Personalized Learning
Stay the Course with the 1:1 Initiative
If people were drowning, we would immediately start a 1:1 lifejacket initiative. We wouldn't abandon it if the people were still flopping around in the water like wounded fish after they put on their lifejackets. Struggling swimmers flop around because they were not prepared by their leaders and mentors. We especially wouldn’t abandon the lifejacket plan if our only other plan was rearranging the deck chairs on the boat while we let the swimmers sink to the bottom with hopes that somehow they would pop out the other side and be “life ready.”