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April Fool’s found me sifting through my son’s annual barrage of pranks (forgive me if you received an email with the signature “Czar of the World” as my title). It was my Duquesne students who trumped him this year. I have several students from China in my evening class. We were covering the history of …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/04/10/crimea-and-ukraine-april-fools-and-alarming-statistics/
Thank you to Lauren for forwarding the gorgeous video! Dutch artist Theo Jansen, intricately conjoined plastic tubes, wood and sails, and formed beautiful and complex works of art. Mr. Jansen makes some interesting claims about the definitions of life and asks whether his many-legged skeletons that move so fluidly and autonomously can be called a new, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/03/22/engineering-saturdays/
Congratulations to the two winners of the Pi Day Challenge! Aliyah K StormC DNA Day Scratch Programming Challenge Grow a Generation is thrilled to announce an April 25 DNA Day Scratch Programming Challenge Available to all ages! Log into Scratch and create a celebratory card that celebrates the marvels of Nucleic Acid and the Human …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/03/18/announcing-the-dna-day-challenge/
I ran a camp last summer, Theatrical Robots, where kids created a script and programmed a Groma Robot to be an actor in a two minute film. The camp makes a return this spring on the After School Tuesdays @ Baden Academy beginning May 13. This semester I am partnering with two creative people in the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/03/10/the-theatre-robotics-and-creativity/
I was a cellist growing up, in a home where season tickets to the Symphony and Opera occasioned regular trips into the city. I was treated last week to a special pre-Valentine romantic night on the town by my wonderful husband. The tickets were for the Pittsburgh Symphony’s performance of Holst’s The Planets. While …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/02/15/musical-genius-in-pittsburgh/
Third and fourth grade research fellows from Baden Academy had the honor and joy to spend a day on CMU’s campus. A ride in Doctor Who’s Tardis couldn’t have been more exciting. Our adventures landed us in four different labs. The Baden Academy fellows not only gazed upon visions of the future, but were able …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/02/03/cmu-field-trip-2014-robots-dna-and-virtual-mentors/
We are getting there! Getting to a place where we engage students creatively as they master the crucial STEM concepts needed for today and tomorrow’s world. Walk with me for a few minutes to glimpse three unique approaches to the common core standards with focused and prioritized curriculum. One approach that I have loved using …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/01/26/middle-school-math-another-new-age-of-learning-is-approaching/
Teaching collaboration is a challenge, whether you are working with kids or adults! Second graders have begun coming into the Media Lab to work in small groups and develop in Google Drawing a Virtual Neighborhood. They are learning basic mapping skills, compass points, and how to write clear directions. They are also learning how to …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/01/18/collaboration-skill-7-telling-the-lemon-wedge-story/
Walk into the media lab during a class and shout out “Superhero” and watch 20 some kids leap from their stools, throw their shoulders back and strike a superhero pose with hands on their hips or cast into the air about to take flight. Some think it an odd “attention signal” but I assure you, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/01/11/superhero-pose/
Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2014/01/01/questions-to-ask-our-children-as-they-set-new-years-resolutions/
