Two young girls who call themselves the Kitty Whisperers will premiere their documentary of the Colony Cats of Washington County at the Companion Animals and the Law Conference at the Duquesne Law School on November 8. The extraordinary story of how this video came to be made and the work of these two girls are …
Category: 21st century skills
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May 31
Celebrating Women in STEM: Sheryl Sandberg
Forbes recently published the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Follow me the next few weeks to be inspired by the STEM Athletes who made the list. Sheryl Sandberg According to Forbes Sheryl is the COO of Facebook Net Worth is $1 Billion Age 44 Source Of Wealth Facebook, Self Made Residence Atherton, CA Citizenship United States Marital Status Married Children 2 Education Bachelor …
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May 24
Congratulations Team E.T.
Team E.T. successfully completed the NASA Design Exploration Challenge today! Lexi, Ava, and Zoe heeded the challenge of Astronaut Williams and focused time and energy mastering difficult concepts of space radiation and radiation shielding. Each girl will serve as a member of NASA’s virtual crew on Orion Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), Their eyes fell onto the …
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May 02
Doing Work That Matters
I will celebrate, in two weeks, the fantastic culmination of a year of work by the third and fourth grade research fellows at Baden Academy’s Imagination Celebration. With limited resources and mentors that span the globe, twelve research fellows and their ten assistants have developed a virtual scale model of the school in MinecraftEdu, made …
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Apr 19
Summer Camp Registration Open
Grow a Generation is holding some exciting Camps at Baden Academy this summer! SUMMER CAMPS @ BADEN ACADEMY Mon-Fri, Jun 16-20 9:30-3:00 History of Robotics(Grades 3-8) Are you ready for the Google driverless car? It is on the roads in California, Florida, Nevada and Michigan. Spend a week exploring the history of autonomous robotics as we …
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Jan 11
Superhero Pose
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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Oct 12
Risk Taking: Finished Product or Fluid Open Collaboration?
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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Sep 28
Google and Wikipedia in the Classroom
What does a room full of 4th graders using Wikipedia have in common with a room full of college students in a classroom shouting out conflicting information from their e-devices? I am working with fourth graders at Baden Academy as we develop together a year-long new curriculum that integrates their science curriculum, but also seeps …
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Sep 21
The Radix Endeavor: A Video Game Being Used for High School STEM subjects
I spend a few hours this morning playing The Radix Endeavor, a game designed to help high school teachers lead and assess their students in the content areas of biology, algebra, geometry and statistics. It is in beta testing by MIT Education Arcade (funded by the Gates Foundation in collaboration with Filament Games). It is …
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Sep 16
Creating Projects with Real World Impact: Becoming a Resource to the World
Given the choice of a completing an assignment to make a real world impact or writing an assignment that will be thrown away, what would you choose? Students in my Global and Cultural Perspective’s class are struggling with this question as reach into the into the vast stores of recent academic research at Duquesne’s extensive …
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