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5th-8th Grade Boys and Girls Get NASA Mentors!
Academy @ Nola Dunn Coding Club zSpace Visit
The Academy @ Nola Dunn Coding Club got to visit STEAM Middle School and the zSpace lab at Clinkscale Elementary. They got to explore the 3D Lab equipment, working with robotic arms, architectural plans, bugs, and even a beating human
10 Questions for Fake News Detection
A Washington, DC–based organization, the News Literacy Project (NLP) has devised an infographic to help teachers (and any news consumer) wondering how best to approach misinformation in the news and separate fact from conspiracy theory. “Ten Questions for Fake News
5 Ways to Warp Speed Your Teaching Toward Student-Centered Learning
Ah…2017! We live in an age where we can order (and have delivered!) pretty much anything using a tiny (by historical standards) computer that we keep in our pocket. We can fast forward through commercials, communicate live with people on
TAG Teacher Shares DE #SpotlightOnStrategies Paper Chat
Erin Wright, TAG teacher for STEAM Academy at Stribling Elementary and Frazier Elementary, participated in the 2017 BISD Spring #DEN Ambassador cohort. As part of the cohort Ms. Wright learned about different Discovery Education #SpotlightOnStrategies. She used the Paper Chat
Evidence-Based Argumentation in Science
Sponsored by the Literacy in Learning Exchange of the National Council of Teachers of English, “Evidence-Based Argumentation in Science” is a one-hour, on-demand web seminar that addresses the call to guide students as they develop science arguments supported by research-based
Hands-on STEAM Activities
The Smithsonian Institution and Lenovo have teamed up to develop and provide free STEAM activities for students, along with teachers’ guides. The materials are available in the Smithsonian Learning Lab for educators who would like to replicate or adapt them
A Journey of 1000 Days Begins With One Post #DENspiration
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets In midnights, in cups of coffee In inches,
The April Newsletter is Finally Here!
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BreakoutEDU Academy – April
In an effort to introduce teachers to the concept of BreakoutEDU and to train them on the THIRTY boxes purchased by the Learning Technologies department, we held our first BreakoutEDU Academy on April 22, 2017. Almost 40 intrepid teachers gave