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 …
Category: STEM education
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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 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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May 10
My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part Three: Develop a Portfolio
A unanimous sentiment of our the co-authors is “The biggest, most important piece of advise I can give anyone interested in making games for a living is to start making games now.” A college degree is important, but that degree has to accompanied by a portfolio to the interview question: What games have you worked …
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May 03
My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part Two: What type of training or classes should they take?
Added April 2014: I am pleased to announce the Grow a Generation Game Design Master series in Scratch Programming for kids as young as 8 and teens new to programming. Find out more. My fourteen year old took a game design class in his school this year, one semester long, that introduced him to Multi …
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Apr 26
My Child Wants to Design Video Games Part One: Are there jobs out there?
Tim Ferris’s recent blog “How to Build an App Empire: Can You Create The Next Instagram?” describes Chad Muerta’s story. Recovering from a car accident,Chad left his real estate job and started an app business from his iPhone. “In just over two years, I’ve created and sold three app companies that have generated millions in …
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Mar 18
21st Century Job Tour
I was able to collaborate, as part of my work with the Beaver County STEM group, on a middle school student tour of Google’s Pittsburgh offices, the Pitt Engineering Prototype Lab, and the interesting work environment of Inventionland. Students from all around Beaver County, represented cyber schools, home schools, brick and mortars, and several local …
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