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 …
Category: Digital Footprint
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Sep 10
3rd Grader Writes Book to Help Save Dolphins
Isabella Kelm loves dolphins. When asked what she wanted to do as a research fellow project at the Baden Academy media lab, she immediately thought of dolphins! She wanted to write a book about dolphins, and mermaids, and Sparkle Lakes. She was partnered with a mentor, Cheryl Bonnes. Cheryl is a Marine Mammal Specialist at …
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Oct 28
Assigning Wikipedia Entries for a College Classroom
Grow a Generation advocates active learning, engaging young people in meaningful projects, and tapping into a person’s intrinsic motivation to learn. I’ve challenged parents and teachers to see technology as a tool to help develop a generation of innovators, critical thinkers, collaborators, young people able to take criticism, to fail and rise, who are empowered …
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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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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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Dec 30
Dreams and Hopes for a New Year in the Eighth Continent
Eighteen year old Ben Breedlove died on Christmas Day, leaving behind a touching video on the heart condition that took his life. This young man, who had struggled since age four with the fear of a young death, used social media to reach out to his friends and make new friends. Ben created the popular …
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