Shoot and TweetOn day one, we were challenged to take a picture of ourselves that reflects who we are. As I said in my tweet: soccer and PLTW says everything except my family.
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Quick Fire: Where does it STEM fromThis is me using Play-doh to express how I see STEM. To me STEM is passion, time, work, and inquiry risks.
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Quickfire: MemeSTEMformers were asked to create a meme that shows how risk and fear play into teaching. We thought that by taking risks you can deepen your thinking and thus students learning.
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Quickfire: Stop Motion VideoSTEMformers were asked to create a stop motion video that shows a common misconception students and society can hold onto. We pick the MISCONCEPTION "bigger things fall faster."
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Tech Tip #1My personal tech tip for our face to face meeting time was take a test on Project Implicit. Project Implicit is run by Harvard University and tries to help people uncover the implicit bias we all have but typically struggle to see in ourselves. In short, learn about yourself.
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Quickfire: TV Theme RecapGiven 35 minutes to write and record an audio of singing a song that recaps our learning for the first 9 days of MSU Urban STEM to the theme song of The Flintstones.
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World of WonderEveryone had to present one thing they saw in the world that made them wonder. I saw a car catch fire on I-55 and my six year old said "Mommy, why did their car catch on fire?" We all wonder don't we.
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Ideas Photo Assignment
Observing is fundamental skill in order to find the wonder and beauty in the world. A little creativity helps too. Here my STEMformers team worked to find the letters A and E in everyday life.
This was my first Sketchnote ever. It was made by my group with Mike and Darren about the major themes, questions, and implications for our reading of The Dreamkeepers book by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
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This is my specialist Sketchnote made about Chapter Six of The Dreamkeepers. A video of this Sketchnote explained can be found here.
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After my specialist Chapter 6 Dreamkeepers Sketchnote that I did solo, I had a chance work with Phil and develop and combined sketchnote. We then added this to the cohort's google slide document, to make a review of the whole book and discussion questions.
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These are the sketchnotes for all the Chapters of Dreamkeepers. This document is a collaborative document with my third cohort and serves as a reading guide and discussion starter.
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The internal tensions of education are all around us. Here is one visual representation of the tension: Breadth v. Depth. Thanks Sarah for being the model.
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Comos Section
Below you will find many artifacts from our whole cohort and my STEMformers team struggling to find teaching and life lessons from the Carol Sagan book Cosmos.