Exploring Number Lines & Making Music With @Brainpadboard
Hello World! If you have been following me recently, you will have noticed my new found love for this amazing STEAM gadget called brainpad. Brainpad is a fairly new product to the scene which has taken...
View ArticleSimulating Natural Disasters With BrainPad
Hello World! Happy #CSEdWeek! With so many awesome activities floating around the interweb space I thought I would create my own project between travels. In this activity we will simulate different...
View Article5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process
5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process Empathize: To gain an understanding of your audience and the problem to be solved. Define: Once data has been collected, clear goals should be established...
View ArticleAn Hour of Code Reflection via @ArcherJoe #CodeBreaker
This is a guest post by Joe Archer. Click here to view Joe’s blog. Well… Lakewood Elementary School’s 2nd Annual Hour of Code Event has concluded, the hard work and effort was well worth it, but the...
View ArticleThe Family Learning App!
I love twitter. As a regular user of twitter for professional development, I love meeting new start ups and people from all over the world. This week I bumped into “The Family Learning App”...
View ArticleBlock Breaker – Amplifying Student Voice One Block at a Time!
Hello, world! It gives me great pleasure to announce the final round of edits for Block Breaker are now complete and the final layout designs have begun. I am tremendously grateful for the early reads...
View ArticleGet your FREE Scratch Coding Course!
Hello, world! I am just so excited to launch Block Breaker in the next week that I thought I would give back to my awesome community! For a limited time, I am giving away my Scratch course so if you...
View ArticleOur Scratch Course is LIVE!
Hello, world! Happy Sunday! As promised, here is the link to our FREE scratch course to celebrate our latest book launch with Block Breaker. Scratch is a wonderful entry point for teachers and students...
View ArticleEssayJack – The English-Language Essay Writing System
As most of you know – if you’re here on my blog! – I am a firm believer in educational technologies that disrupt old and outmoded ways of doing things in the classroom. Students learn in a whole bunch...
View ArticleGet your FREE HEXBUG Ring Racer!
Hello, world! Brian here again on this beautiful Monday and we have some exciting news! We love to support our BREAKER community and, as such, always want to give back to our squad! This week’s contest...
View ArticleSupport the #BlockBreaker Campaigns!
Hello, world! We are on a mission to put more technology in kids hands, but doing so requires money. Let me introduce you to Bonfire! Think of this as a Kickstarter for clothes! We have pulled two of...
View ArticleGeometry with Scratch via @MsPhillipsHRCE #CodeBreaker
Twitter is my PLN! Really! I have been active on Twitter since 2011 adding a seperate teacher account in 2013. I have presented to teachers on Twitter 101: How to Get Started with friend and fellow...
View ArticleBack By Popular Demand! Limited Edition T Shirts!
Hello, world! Brian here again. Since the release of Block Breaker a few weeks ago, we have been bombarded with requests for swag! As such, we have put together two more campaigns to help raise funds...
View ArticleDocumenting the Learning Process via @MsKJEdu
By Kendall Johnson, @MsKJEdu 2011. That’s when I first created my class blog. They had been around for many years already, but I had very little knowledge about them at the time, and I certainly...
View ArticleExploring Number Lines & Making Music With @Brainpadboard
Hello World! If you have been following me recently, you will have noticed my new found love for this amazing STEAM gadget called brainpad. Brainpad is a fairly new product to the scene which has taken...
View ArticleSimulating Natural Disasters With BrainPad
Hello World! Happy #CSEdWeek! With so many awesome activities floating around the interweb space I thought I would create my own project between travels. In this activity we will simulate different...
View Article5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process
5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process Empathize: To gain an understanding of your audience and the problem to be solved. Define: Once data has been collected, clear goals should be established...
View ArticleAn Hour of Code Reflection via @ArcherJoe #CodeBreaker
This is a guest post by Joe Archer. Click here to view Joe’s blog. Well… Lakewood Elementary School’s 2nd Annual Hour of Code Event has concluded, the hard work and effort was well worth it, but the...
View ArticleGradeSlam MIND – Brain to Text Technology Has Arrived!
Here is an amazing example of why we need to teach coding! @GradeSlam now offers THOUGHT to SPEECH technology! Check out this video! # @GradeSlam Mind – If you can think it, you can see it. From...
View ArticleCollaborative Group Work: Does Volume Matter? Via @jenquattrucci
First of all, I am humbled to be writing a blog post for the one and only Brian Aspinall. Mr. Aspinall leaves me speechless with his never-ending enthusiasm for creating the best possible environments...
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