USA Today calls Tony Wagner’s latest book “A road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers.” I couldn’t agree more. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World focuses on what we must do differently, as parents and educators, in a globalized and technologically altered world …
Category: 21st century skills
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Aug 07
Libraries: The Start of Math and Science Queries
A friend wrote and asked last week: “My grandchild will turn 6 in September. Do you know of any game or book for her age to get the math and science query started? She starts Kindergarten late August.” (thanks Anna Mae!) Here are my ideas… Do you have others? 1) Books! So important. As an …
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Aug 03
Curiosity for Curiosity
I just finished five fantastic mornings with some brilliant hardworking middle schoolers, CMU Robotics Academy Curriculum on Robotics Engineering, seven Mindstorm robots, and five robot challenges. Life is good. Thank you to CCBC and the Beaver County STEM for sponsoring and encouraging such a great week, but most of all thank you to the parents willing to …
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Aug 01
Books that promote STEM learning
A friend wrote and asked last week: “My grandchild will turn 6 in September. Do you know of any game or book for her age to get the math and science query started? She starts Kindergarten late August.” Here are my ideas… Do you have others? 1) Books! So important. As an author, I appreciate …
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Jul 25
Games for Change 2012
I enjoyed an incredible lunch Monday sponsored by The Sprout Fund with Nikki Navta of Zulama and Todd Keruskin of Elizabeth Forward School District at spoke at a lunch & learn at Sprout offices today about their experience at the Games for Change Festival earlier this summer. Keynotes and presentations from the festival are online. …
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Jul 13
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
I just finished reading Switch by Chip and Dan Heath from the perspective of a person and parent trying to understand how to motivate myself and my child to action. It was a great complement to Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow reviewed last month. The Heath’s metaphor for what Kahneman called System One and System …
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Jul 05
Music/STEM Careers
Preparing our kids for the 21st century involves exciting them about STEM education and making sure they are literate in science, technology, engineering and math. Many are asking that we put an “A” for the Arts into STEM education, making STEAM education the focus of 21st century learning. That begs the question – does that …
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Musically Gifted: Tools to Help Parent
Do you believe your child is musically gifted? They may – think in terms of chords or harmony, – look at numerous lines of music on a page and hear it in their head, – quickly learn to read and play music, – show creative improvisational talent, – enjoy composition, – live as though they …
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Jun 16
Thinking Fast and Slow and Being a Devil’s Advocate
Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote what is considered by the NY and LA Times, Economist, and Wall Street Journal, one of the best books of 2011. In Thinking Fast and Slow : He uses questions to understand the brain, for example: A bat and ball cost a …
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Jun 08
Summer Goals and Portfolio Building
Do you actually sit down and set goals with your kids? Share your experiences! I’m big on goal setting. I have my own mission and goals I visit often, and so do my kids. I read and listen to leaders in education and 21st century businesses announce that our kids need to not merely have …
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