Magical Bridge Playground Grand Opening. O.R.E.O. 2014. GoNoodle. Zamzee: The Game That Gets Kids Moving. NMSU: Learning Games Lab - Learning Games Lab. Just A Secret, For My Mom-Story Time. A game-based learning and assessment tool for middle school students covering the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects. Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. Twenty Tips for Managing Project-Based Learning.
In honor of Edutopia's 20th anniversary, we're producing a series of Top 20 lists, from the practical to the sublime. 20 Tips for Managing Project-Based Learning 1.
Use Social Media One of the best ways to document collaboration and engage students with technology is use social media platforms like Edmodo. Students can use it to share ideas, you as the teacher can use it to formatively assess where students are in terms of products and content knowledge, and it is a great way to have real evidence of collaboration. 2. Electronics. National Girls Collaborative Project. Agile Learning Center. The structure of an Agile Learning Center is designed to nourish a productive, vibrant, and healthy culture – allowing participants to engage authentically in a learning process that cultivates confidence, dynamic skill sets, mental agility, self-awareness, and group skills.
Morning Intentions The day kicks off with a Morning Intentions meeting, which operates much like a scrum stand-up meeting would in an Agile Management environment. Each person takes a turn announcing their intentions -- making declarations for how they will spend the day, and making requests for any support they may need. This simple process only takes about ten to fifteen minutes, but serves an extremely important purpose of starting each day with intention and accountability.
By continually engaging in this practice, learners are cultivating highly useful skills in time-management, teamwork, self-awareness and self-assessment. Afternoon Accomplishments Kanban Boards. Genius Hour Ideas. On Friday my classes made their genius hour topic selections.
At the beginning of the class I told them that I was changing the name of our time together from “Passion Projects” to “Genius Hour”. They seemed to appreciate the thought of me thinking they were all geniuses. I pulled up our brainstorming pages from last week and went through them again. I explained why some of the selections were great and others stunk. I them told them that we would be selecting our genius hour ideas. My classroom doesn’t have computers in it, so we all packed up and went down the hall to the computer lab. As the entries came flying in, I called them up one by one to either approve or deny the project. In the spirit of transparency I’m going to list all of the project selections that I received. We have not spent any time discussing the creation part of the genius hour projects. Genius Hour Ideas – 6th graders Once the students selected their topics they began their research. Until next week… That problem. Instructables - DIY How To Make Instructions.
DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers. Electronic Invention Kit - Buy Direct (Official Site) Imagination Foundation. All Members: ThingLink Toolkit Tutorials. #37 PD.