What Can Mentoring Organizations Learn From Each Other? What Data is Missing?
By Tara Chklovski The last article we wrote focused on how mentoring enables personalized and deep learning (by employing a “Cognitive Apprenticeshi...
Read MoreVisualizing learning assessment data in a physics game
Understanding how to assess learning is a big topic in education today, and as games are coming to the forefront as a valuable education tool, people ...
Read MoreTechnology is bringing back the apprenticeship model. It just has a different name – Mentoring.
If you do a Google search for “Role Models”, you get 5 million results. “Mentor” yields 2.6 million results, “STEM mentors” 1.6 million an...
Read MoreIntroducing Movable Game Jams
When you hear the phrase “game jam” likely you’re picturing a room full of adults working, hacking, playing through the night to push forward th...
Read MoreUsing online science tools in informal science education settings: Curiosity Machine at camp
By Rusty Nye It’s understandable that many educators might approach the idea of using an online resource to teach STEM content with a hint of trepid...
Read MoreThe Four Freedoms of Play and Common Core Standardized Testing
I was inspired by Scot Osterweil’s recent presentation at GLS, in which he presented his four freedoms of play: Freedom to Experiment Freedom to...
Read MoreThe Gravity Ether Educator Resource Packet
It’s here! We’ve spent the past few months working with Institute of Play to develop and refine a tool for educators using the Gravity Ether in th...
Read MoreHomemade device to record your iPad with your iPhone using popsicle sticks and rubber bands
So at Iridescent, we like to live what we preach. We don’t just ask kids to make things from scratch, we do it too. Recently I decided that I ne...
Read More5 Signals that an “Educational Game” Isn’t Really a Game
Kids love games, but why do they hate educational games? The short answer is that most aren’t truly games, because being gamelike means a lot mo...
Read MoreHow to support teens in leading STEM “Curious Sessions” for Youth
This is a guest post from After School Matters, an organization we work with in Chicago. This past spring we partnered with some of their wonderful te...
Read MoreFixed vs. Growth Mindsets
When I encountered Carol Dweck and her work on mindsets for the first time, I could almost physically feel a shift in my understanding. No gradual rev...
Read MoreSimilarities between Communism and the Common Core
When I was on my high school debate team, we would discuss all kinds of philosophical principles “in theory.” I remember several discussio...
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