Living in the city, you see a lot of food waste. Yesterday I walked by the supermarket and saw 2 cartons of expired fancy imported butter in the trash – waiting for the sanitation trucks to haul them to a…
In our digital lives, there is intense competition for one thing: our attention. As a former teacher and current children’s media professional, I think about this regularly, and feel responsibility to help students learn to identify and manage digital distractions.…
This presentation, originally delivered at the TRETC conference at Teacher’s College in 2012, provides background into my professional growth from pre-k teacher to an educational technology professional. I grew up the child of 2 psychologists, earned an undergrad degree in…
At ISTE 2014, I was thrilled to share a critique of poorly implemented gamification through participating in my first IGNITE session – one of those 5 minute rants during which your slides progress automatically every 15 seconds. It’s a challenging…
This is my presentation from Apps that Close the Gap Summit at Teachers College May 2013.
Here are the slides from my Games and Storytelling presentation delivered on May 9th as part of the Tribeca Film Institutes Moving Image Blueprint education workshop. Special thanks to Colleen Macklin for the excellent keynote and Chainmakers activity that served…
Last night, Howard and I discussed the future of Education and Museums with Wendy Woon, Director of Education at MoMA. I was just giddy to get the chance to speak at a museum that I’ve admired for many years. Watch…
The week before spring break, The School tosses aside the “normal” schedule and students sign up for special courses to study something different. This year I worked with teachers Chris Pappas and Monica Amaro and twelve sixth and seventh grade…
Today Hil, Andy and I started our LEO TV/School reporters afterschool class. I was slightly nervous, having never taught a video production class before, but we came in prepared with lots of things to do. We had a group of…
We began robotics with 3rd grade last week. After explaining the we were only programming, not engineering, we began with Robolab 2.9. Robolab is an icon based programming language. Students usually program robots to turn by directing the motors to…