by Paige Martin-Jesudowich | Sep 5, 2018 | Arts, Coding, LEGO workshops, Professional Development, Robotics, STEAM
What do you get when you combine a robotics and programming teacher, a music teacher, and a dance teacher? A robot dancing to its own soundtrack! Believe it or not, this isn’t just a silly punchline, at CreaCamp, this is exactly the kind of result that facilitators...
by Paige Martin-Jesudowich | Jan 12, 2018 | ICT Integration, Literacy, Professional Development
Beloved character, Atticus Finch, from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, offers the sage wisdom to, “climb into someone else’s skin and walk around in it” (Lee) So how can we implement this advice with our students in the classroom? Specifically, with our...
by Dominic Tremblay | Nov 17, 2017 | Arts, LEGO workshops, Literacy, Professional Development
Using LEGO to develop literacy skills in students Do writing tasks sometimes seem insurmountable to your students? Do your students often have blank-page syndrome when you ask them to write a text? In many cases, you can offer your students graphic organizers to...
by Dominic Tremblay | Apr 5, 2015 | LEGO workshops, Mathematics, Professional Development
The first time I saw examples of how to use LEGO to teach math on Pinterest, I immediately began to think of ideas that went beyond what I saw posted. Most of the suggestions there involved explaining fractions, and LEGO opens up a much wider range of possibilities....
by Dominic Tremblay | Oct 3, 2014 | Arts, Coding, ICT Integration, Inquiry-based Learning, LEGO workshops, Literacy, Mathematics, Professional Development, Robotics, Science, STEAM
From ASIMO to R2-D2 to NAO, students love robots! Fortunately, robotic systems that offer students hands-on experiences have become much more available in the past few years. There are a number of systems I have used in classrooms or taught teachers to use in their...
by Dominic Tremblay | Apr 1, 2014 | Inquiry-based Learning, Professional Development, Science, STEAM
If you were going to learn how to bake a loaf of bread, which would you prefer to receive: a fact sheet with information about bread or a box containing flour, water, yeast, salt and potential recipes? Of course, the answer would be to get flour on your hands,...
