by Brian | Dec 1, 2014 | Change, Cooperative Learning, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, The High Hopes Project, Twitter, Video Skype, Wikis
I posted this over on our “High Hopes Project” blog and decided it fit well here too: We refer to The High Hopes Project as a “model” STEM project. One aspect of that modeling is that we’ve designed it to include as many ways to...
by Brian | May 15, 2013 | Education, Messy Learning, STEM, Teacher Access, Twitter
Or: “Why many educators find Twitter and other social networks indispensable.” I’m currently attending the NSTA STEM Forum and Expo in St. Louis. Last night while taking a class on using telescopes in the classroom, not far from my house in Nevada I...
by Brian | Feb 3, 2013 | Blogging, Cooperative Learning, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEM, TEDxNYED, Twitter, Video Skype
A few weeks back I posted about a training we did with teachers using windmills and wind turbines. This past week Lou Loftin and I were the show at a local school’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Night designed to get families fired up about...
by Brian | Apr 29, 2011 | Blogging, Brian Crosby, Education, Field Trips, Messy Learning, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Video Skype
What if you come for a shuttle launch and the shuttle doesn’t launch? A waste of time? Hardly. My trip made people where I’m from more aware of the what school could become. Our local paper did a short article, and although I was supposed to Skype in an...
by Brian | Apr 27, 2011 | Brian Crosby, Education, Field Trips, Messy Learning, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
I’m writing quickly from the airport in Salt Lake City, Utah. I’m soon to catch the second in a trilogy of flights that will end in Orlando, Florida, at 6:00am Thursday morning (how much sleep will I get???), and from there I will rush out to Cape...
by Brian | Mar 24, 2011 | 1:1, Blogging, Brian Crosby, Change, Cooperative Learning, Digital Video, Education, Field Trips, Grace Corrigan, Literacy, Messy Learning, Project Based, Skypecast, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology, Twitter, Video Skype, Web 2.0
In my last post I shared that I have this fantastic opportunity to watch the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida next month. One of the ways this new pedagogy changes things is in how my students can be included in my trip. If I...
