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Tools at School: Excellent Example of PBL, Student Design and Innovation, and...
— — Several of my great enthusiasms come together in the the video above and below from the School at Columbia and their outstanding, superb Tools-at-Schools project. Don Buckley, the School’s...
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Cultivating Innovative Behavior With Design: A TEDx talk by St. Gregory...
The TEDx talk above is a treat, presented by two faculty members of the d. school (Design) at Stanford, one of them, Scott Witthoft, an alumnus of our school, St. Gregory, and a great example of what...
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Fab Labs and Makerbots: “Turning Consumers into Creators” at our School
A recurrent theme on this blog is advocating learning by doing in the 21st century, and I argue that we should be seizing the opportunities new technologies present to facilitate our students in...
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Design Build Tech Innovation Class Projects, Part 3: Solar Energy- Laptop...
(This is the third post in a series; be sure to read the first for context). This Class project was a year in the making: It began last spring, and I posted then about the class plans and my...
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Lessons from Lehrer’s Imagine for Cultivating Student Creativity
This book has been withdrawn from publication due to issues of integrity, and is no longer available. I was sorry to hear about the book’s problems, and certainly condemn the errors. Nevertheless,...
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Measuring Creativity: a “teaser” to the full post at SSATB.
One of my main projects this year is serving as a member and consultant/writer for the Secondary School Admissions Testing Board (SSATB) Think Tank on the Future of Admissions Assessment. More...
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ISACS: 4 presentations on Innovation and Project-Based Learning
I enjoyed a great day presenting at ISACS last week in Louisville. Below you’ll find most of my materials from those presentations; thank you all who attended and thank you ISACS for inviting me....
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Portfolio Assessment for Design/Build and Design Thinking Programs
– Two of my great interests and enthusiasms regarding 21st century learning have, until now, felt a bit divorced from and at odds with each other. Yesterday, however, I learned more about a...
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Bringing Innovation to School: The NAIS Session Slides and Materials
- Although the hour went by much too swiftly, Suzie Boss, Brett Jacobsen, and I had a great time sharing our thoughts on the topic of Bringing Innovation to School today at NAIS AC 13 The slides are...
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7 steps to better educate future innovative engineers & designers: Webinar...
- Above are my slides for the webinar I presented yesterday for Simple K12. The full 30 minutes webinar, on video, can be found at their site here, though if you are not a member there I’m afraid...
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