In a word, a MOOC is a free online class you can take at a University. According to the Washington Post, it is the latest buzzword coming out of higher education. MOOC is an acronym for “Massive Open Online Course.” It is an online class that anyone (at least anyone with access to the internet) …
Category: 21st century skills
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Jul 27
My Child Wrote Code?
I took Grow a Generation to a recent Zumbathon fundraiser for the Yellow Ribbon Girls. Several kids meandered over to the table while the moms were working out. I invited them to play around with the Scratch programming window that was opened on the computer. One girl, I think about 10 or 11, became enamored …
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Jul 20
Space Robots, Sequestration, and the Still Contemplation of the Night Sky
I was so excited yesterday to get an email from Astrobotic confirming a student tour during the week of the August 5th Space Robots Camp. Astrobotic is a CMU spin off company that has been in the news recently. NASA choose the company to develop autonomous robots to search for ice on the moon in …
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Jul 13
Theatrical Robots
The Theatrical Robots camp was a great success! What an absolute joy to work with these very creative, hilarious kids. The boys helped complete and test the Theatrical Robots curriculum for the Grow a Generation Lab that will be offered next year for homeschool and afterschool labs in the home and in the Media Lab …
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Jun 28
Games for Change Opening Keynote and Going Beyond the Common Core
Michael Jones, chief technology advocate at Google, gave the opening keynote at the 10th Anniversary Games for Change Festival. Michael was the chief technologist of Google Maps, Earth, and Local Search and the teams responsible for providing location intelligence and information in global context to users worldwide. He demonstrated two new technologies coming out of …
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Jun 22
Mozilla Open Badges: A Glimpse into the Future of Education
It has long been established that the amount of education you have is a key predictor of how much you make and how long you live. Recent studies also demonstrate a correlation between a parent’s income and education level and the development of certain areas of their child’s brain that relate to learning, memory and …
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Jun 15
The Fellowship of the Media Lab: The Dawn of Imagination
Friday night hosted the Imagination Celebration, an evening to celebrate all the hard work the incredible 2nd and 3rd graders of the Baden Academy Media Lab accomplished throughout the year. The Media Lab opened its doors this year with a vision from Mr. Stephen Cantanzarite to renovate an old science lab and create a research fellows …
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Apr 27
Real World Design Challenge
Your mission: To design an unmanned aerial search vehicle to locate a scout lost in the two mile radius of the Philmont recreation area. That was the challenge given to hundreds of teams across the country. I had a chance to sit down with the 2nd place national winners, the CCA Innovators, and learn more …
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Dec 26
Conversations with kids in the wake of violent tragedies
The below comments are written for parents and grandparents of children over ten. The funerals at Newtown have come to an end, the days of mourning have (for those of us not directly affected by the tragedy) given way to Christmas celebrations. Group prayers have turned to other concerns. And yet the shadow of …
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Dec 12
The Lies We Tell: A Review of Imagine: How Creativity Works
I was so excited to get my hands on Jonah Lehrer’s book Imagine: How Creativity Works. I had read reviews when it first came out and put it on my request list at the library. The audio book came in and I couldn’t wait for each small trip in the car to hear more. His storytelling was extraordinary and …
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