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…
Sneaker Design Project with 6th and 7th Graders
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…
THE JOY OF TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY
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…
Robotics Drawing Project: The Flower Garden!
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…