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Infinitoy generously donated a Zoob Challenge Kit to the Baden Academy Media Lab. It’s wonderful! I can confidently say it is now the go to item whenever kids have a few unassigned moments in the lab. Lunch time and lab time will find two or three kids working together on one of the Zoob challenges. I …
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Empty boxes and broken electronics that kids can take apart head my list of fun for the holiday break. But if you have gift cards and returns, I suggest some of the following great toys that stimulate creativity and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) innovation. The Zoob Challenge Kit has been a great hit …
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The Gifts of Goodness and Forgiveness If there are dreams about a beautiful [world], there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness. Nelson Mandala The Gift of Outrageousness I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. Peter …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/12/24/wisdom-from-people-we-will-miss-this-holiday-season/
“Every other school family in the U.S. has a child that has done the Hour of Code.” – Code.org Did your child spend time this week learning to write computer code? I’ve had some fun playing with a variety of students. The Virtual Worlds 4th grade classrooms at Baden Academy began programming their ecosystems and …
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Innovation, resilience, gut-wrenching sorrow, and surprising splashes of color and laughter carried me away last night as I sat the Regent Square Theater and watched Blood Brother. The documentary followed the journey of a young man from Pittsburgh who, in the course of a walkabout through India, fell into the arms of the children in …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/12/08/blood-brother-and-mylans-work-to-end-the-aids-epidemic/
“Computers have the power to liberate math from calculating, raising its use to new levels—exactly what’s happened outside education,” said Conrad Wolfram. “Mimic this real-world of math, and your education will become more conceptual, more practical, and more motivational.” Mathematical problem solving is 1.Posing the right question 2.Translating a real-world problem into math 3.Computation 4.Translating …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/11/23/math-is-not-calculating/
A New Kind of Yin Yang Rotation from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project by Frederick Wu Mathematics, like the air we breathe, is part of every subject we study, image we gaze on, and sound we hear. To hear someone say they don’t have the math gene, strikes me with the same sadness as to hear …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/11/15/visualizing-math-free-demonstrations-on-wolfram-demonstrations-project/
Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday, December 9, marks the beginning of the Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code. Amazing Grace, born in 1906, was a computer scientist and a US Navy Rear Admiral. She was a pioneer programmer, the first to coin the word “debug” when she pulled a moth from the computer …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2013/11/02/getting-ready-for-code-week/
“I was able to feel relaxation, tranquility, focus.” – Dan Suriano “It helps get my thoughts and feelings in order,” – K.J. Miller “The mandalas brought us together and cleared our minds” – anonymous “I enjoyed it so much, I couldn’t stop [when the assignment was over.]” – Ventura Simmons “helped me calm down at …
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We are in a time of mass collaboration, a time when there is no longer a comprehensive textbook a marine biologist professor can offer to their students. WoRMS, the World Register of Marine Species, is an online database in which marine research is immediately updatable. Global partnerships in research can be made quickly. The information …
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