December 18, 2014 at 1:56 pm
I am happy to announce the title – Learning LEGO Mindstorms EV3 on the Packt website. This is My second book that is published !!!! Book Type – Maxi Print Price (US) – $41.99 eBook Price (US) – $25.99 Expected Publication Date – 27th January 2015
December 15, 2014 at 10:42 pm
Reuters just recently posted a video of Star Wars like weapons. I had to share this. You can view an older video of the Laser Weapons from 2010 here. Back when I was in high school, there was talk of Reagan’s Star Wars program to shoot lasers up at Battle Mirrors and bounce them down […]
December 15, 2014 at 9:59 pm
Here is a great video posted recently on the LEGO Engineering website where Chris Rogers explains why we need STEM education. There is a transcript of this video at the above link.
December 13, 2014 at 10:49 pm
On Thursday Leonardo and I attended the Grand Reopening of the CEEO at Tufts. They were having the Ribbon Cutting. Here, Leonardo was building an EV3 Robot for a non-wheeled robot race Leonardo Won! Mainly because his robot went forward and the others went backwards. Here, Leonardo is playing a real live gain of space […]
September 17, 2014 at 11:03 pm
I was interviewed a few weeks ago for the Curriculum section of this week’s issue of eSchool news. The article is by Laura Deveney and titled Project Based Learning Moves into Classrooms. I first learned about Project Based Learning through a summer workshop with the New England Board of Higher Education PBL Program. I […]
September 10, 2014 at 10:08 pm
As I prepare for parents night here at BUA, I often get questions about the pedagogy employed in my classroom. I often turn parents to this article from Science Service, (who publish Science News) about the problems with the Scientific Method. There are some nice quotes from Heidi Schweingruber, director of the Board on Science […]
September 10, 2014 at 9:54 pm
This week in physics we have started playing around with programming LEGO Mindstorms robots using LabVIEW. I received a note today about an announcement from National Instrument, the maker of LabVIEW, that I am on their list of Elite Educators. What kinds of things can you do with National Instruments toys? Here is myRIO with […]
September 4, 2014 at 10:40 pm
Today I gave my Webinar comparing VEXIQ to EV3. You can catch it on the O’Reilly site. It should be archived soon. On the way into school, I heard that LEGO has now surpassed Mattel as the largest toy company in the world. This is partly due to increase sales and mechandising due to the […]
September 2, 2014 at 9:03 pm
Today was the first day of classes. In physics today we learned to use InterLACE with an activity called LEGO Serious Play. The students build something to represent themselves from LEGO and shared it with their peers. This year I am also teaching ASERP (or the Junior STEM Seminar) for the first time in over […]
August 9, 2014 at 8:12 pm
Can you explain how these work?
