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Category Archives: Technology
LEGO WeDo – Using a Motor and Two Sensors
Can students use a motor and two separate sensors with WeDo? If you hook up the motion and tilt sensors to the USB hub and put a sensor on top of the motor, it does not really work. You get continuous … Continue reading
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Creativity and Elementary Engineering
In the theoretical framework of a new book called Engaging Young Engineers: Teaching Problem Solving Skills Through STEM (Stone-Macdonald, Wendell, Douglass, Love, & Hyson, 2015), the authors posit that there are 5 kinds of thinking developed by teaching problem solving via STEM for early … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Marissa Zych on CS Non-Profits
Nonprofits have the opportunity to see a problem and analyze it, come up with a creative solution, and expand upon what educators are teaching. Utilizing the base that the education system constructs, nonprofits allow for continued education and provide advancements … Continue reading
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Introduction to JavaScript Lesson
What is JavaScript and why is it useful? Static versus dynamic HTML Static – always the same Dynamic – can change depending on user actions and input, create games JS runs in the browser – is interpreted Full programming language … Continue reading
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EV3 iPad App
LEGO Education has released a free iPad app for EV3. I was fortunate to be able to do some curriculum consulting work on this project. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lego-education-mindstorms/id959374369?mt=8
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Review of Elementary Robotics
My book got a nice review on LegoEngineering.com http://www.legoengineering.com/elementary-robotics-book-review/
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The Power of Wireless Projector Connection
This is a real incident from a study I just completed that compared teacher use of technology with and without wireless projection systems. I found that these systems changed the spatial arrangements in the classroom as well as the reach … Continue reading
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Space Challenge Ready To Go
My enrichment students have finished building all the LEGO EV3 Space Challenge pieces and are ready to take on the challenge missions!
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Timeline
I want to plot kid’s engineering design process cycles but don’t know how to get EXCEL to combine events of the same type on the same line. For the example below, I want the 2 PLAN events to be on … Continue reading
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Elementary Robotics Book Talk – June 19, 2014 – Meekins Library, Williamsburg
Author’s Talk John Heffernan Elementary Robotics: Sustaining the Natural Engineering Instincts of Children Thursday, June 19, 2014 7 PM to 8 PM 2 Williams Street, Williamsburg, MA 01341 413-268-7472 Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners are natural engineers. They love sand castles, … Continue reading
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