by Brian | May 28, 2020 | Education, High altitude ballooning, High Hopes Project, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, The High Hopes Project
From a past High Hopes mission over 90,000 feet above Nevada. That’s Lake Tahoe on the left. At this altitude the balloon is in “near space” above 98% of the Earth’s atmosphere. Note the thin blue line of the atmosphere and the dark of space...
by Brian | Oct 2, 2019 | Change, Coding, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Inclusion, Making, Messy Learning, Project Based, Reform, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Uncategorized
My wife and I were fortunate to travel to Africa this past summer. Our itinerary included Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. We were notified by most of the listed countries when we applied for tourist visas that we were not to bring plastic bags into the...
by Brian | Aug 29, 2018 | Change, Cooperative Learning, Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, Project Based, Reform, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Yesterday, I wrote a piece about assuming students have collaboration skills and building class culture. These vital learning pieces were greatly deemphasized and cut (even ridiculed as a waste of time) during the last 15 years or so of school “reform.” I...
by Brian | Aug 28, 2018 | Change, Cooperative Learning, Education, Inclusion, Literacy, Making, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEM, Student Access, Technology
I remember back in the day (or do people still do these?) when teachers in 4th or 5th grade tended to assign “the state” or “the country” report. Way too often the assumption was made that the students pretty much knew how to do these. The...
by Brian | Dec 14, 2017 | Coding, Education, Inclusion, Making, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Late last school year I met up with the folks at Breadware to determine if their Internet of Things (IoT) Development Kits could be a nice fit in local high schools. They were a local “start-up” company and they were willing to loan their kits to local...
by Brian | Dec 5, 2017 | Bee-Bots, Change, Coding, Education, Inclusion, Messy Learning, STEAM, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Wikis
Last spring I was able to purchase, thanks to some unspent funding from a grant, 3 Bee-Bot “Hives” – they are about $600 each – each “hive” includes 6 Bee-Bots, a charging plate and a yellow backpack for transporting them. With time...
