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Media Specialist Susan Hall, Inventors Hall of Fame® School

Last month, Newsweek printed an article on the declining creativity skills of American students. In the piece, a new school in Akron, Ohio was featured as a model of nurturing creative expression in kids. The National Inventors Hall of Fame® School … Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Learning focuses on problem-based learning [...]

How do you Teach Creativity?

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
-       Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling, a native of Portland, Oregon, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of only two people awarded two Nobel Prizes in different fields, and the only person [...]

Student Success: Genius or Perseverance?

When I read the post “To Succeed We Must Fail—A Lot” on Wesley Fryer’s blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, it reminded me of the keynote speech that Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers: The Story of Success, gave at NECC ’09 in June. Gladwell said that one thing many successful people have in common [...]

Great iTouch Apps for Primary Students

Yesterday here at NECC I learned about three fantastic applications for younger / primary age students from Jenny Ashby from Vic, Australia, who has 8 iPod Touches in her classroom currently. Here are the applications. These are ideal for students to use in center activities in a primary classroom.

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Give your kids a boost [...]

Nebraska EdTech Podcasters and iTouch-iPhone Apps

Nebraska has some of the most innovative educational podcasters in the nation.
Dan Schmidt (from Lincoln, NE) is the author of the book “KidCast: Podcasting in the Classroom” (an outstanding reference for classroom podcasters) and is dschmit on Twitter. I heard Dan share fantastic presentations on classroom podcasting in 2006 twice, in September in Oklahoma City [...]