Evolving Our Makerspace: The Conclusion
For those of you who haven’t been following along with my last few posts, our fifth and sixth grade student-run business, FH Gizmos, landed a manufacturing contract with Slack. Slack tasked us with...
View ArticleGamification in the 5th Grade Classroom: The Conclusion
If you haven’t been following along with my series on gamification in the 5th grade classroom, you’ve been missing out. This year, Rachel Cheafsky and I have worked hard to implement a version of my...
View ArticleThe Expert in the Room
One of the student-run businesses in my Fair Haven Innovates program is FH Grows. FH Grows is where my 7th graders learn to be entrepreneurs and stewards of the environment while leveraging technology...
View ArticleFlexibility in the Gamified Classroom
Usually, I try to write something for this site every two weeks, but you may have noticed a month or more passing between posts lately. It turns out my last semester of grad school was a doozy, but I’m...
View ArticleThe Struggle is Real (Learning)
At FH Gizmos, our 6th grade edcorp, our slogan is your problem is our project. It turns out, however, that our own problems turn into our projects, too. Over a year ago, FH Gizmos was hired by Slack to...
View ArticleCrazyIdeas.Doc
In my Google Drive I have a folder called Top Secret. There are only two documents in that folder. The first is a Doc called HaHa! My HaHa Doc contains what probably amounts to three hours of...
View ArticleBeing ‘The Guide on the Side’ is not Enough. Become The COO.
Alice Johnson said, “the teacher for the gifted and talented will be more of a ‘guide on the side’ rather than a ‘sage on the stage’.” As far as I can tell, Johnson was the first to use the terms ‘sage...
View ArticleHow To Integrate And Manage Video Games In Your Classroom
That escalated quickly! My post on using Fortnite in the Classroom became my most popular article ever. I was also lucky enough to be asked to chime in on EdWeek’s article on Fortnite and video games...
View ArticleUsing Google Forms to Streamline Feedback & Document Growth
A few weeks ago, I was on our New Jersey Google Educator’s Group (GEG:NJ) show called The Suite Talk hosted by Kim Mattina. On it, I talked about how I love to use Google Forms to show student growth...
View ArticleWhat Student Passion Looks Like
In my Fair Haven Innovates program, I use social entrepreneurship to help expose students to design, computer science, engineering, and the digital arts while also helping them develop their soft...
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