Category Archives: Robotics

Life’s Path – An Open Ended Challenge – TedX Talk – Rough Cut

Rough cut of recent TEDX talk. Edited version expected in September 2024. You’ll see places where I made a mistake speaking and went back to the start of the sentence. Those are edited out for the final version. Enjoy!

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Joyful Learning – Teaching Hands On Engineering PK-18 (30 to 260 lbs)

I recently retired from active K-12 teaching after having taught since 1992 as a third grade classroom teacher, PK-6 tech teacher, and middle/high school engineering, and Computer Science teacher. Although I’ve taught many courses for teachers for the Tufts Center … Continue reading

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3D Printed Custom LEGO Parts

High school students are making robotic fish feeders that help fish owners when they go away for the weekend or for vacation.  This is a Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) project that we use in the Teaching … Continue reading

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Teaching K-6 Elementary Engineering with Robotics

International Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 1–19, 2021 It only took 5 years to get this paper through the academic publishing world. It’s basically the main results of my 300 dissertation condensed down to 18 pages. It … Continue reading

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Coming Soon to a University Library Near You!

It only took 5 years to get through the academic publishing world. The main results of my 300 dissertation condensed down to 18 pages. Should be relatively readable. Very happy to get it out there. Hopefully, it will help contribute … Continue reading

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Tips for Making Concurrent Teaching More Face to Face

With many schools moving from hybrid or remote to in-class learning, I wanted to discuss ways to restore more of a face to face feel to classrooms.  In Massachusetts, families still have the option of staying remote and about 10% … Continue reading

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Pioneer Valley Regional School Innovation Center Update

The Innovation Center goals are:  Teach Middle School computer science and high school engineering design More generally, teach innovation, the application of math, science, the engineering design process, and presentation and documentation skills  Our focus is on hands-on, creative doing … Continue reading

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How I Used COVID Itself to Motivate My Tech Students and Why They Liked It

The Challenge I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses centered on Computer Science Discoveries (CSD) from http://code.org/.  I also had to create new robotics engineering projects for high … Continue reading

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Middle and High School Students Enjoy Challenging and Relevant COVID Tech Projects

Middle and high school students at the Pioneer Valley Regional School  recently completed COVID related Computer Science (CS) and engineering projects.  I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses … Continue reading

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Interviews – High School – Design Your Own COVID Social Distance Robot Project

Here’s what high school students said about their COVID social distancing robots. Analysis to come. Boy 1 I think you talked a little bit about it in the research slide but could you say how you choose a particular design … Continue reading

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