OK, I could not resist sending out one more email this week. (And... as per many requests, I will break down and create a "regular" blog next week. As Michael from Hillel put it.... "All the cool kids are doing it!")
To varying degrees, many of the consortium schools are doing "PBL" and "STEM" projects. Hillel with Robotics, Shalhevet with the Judaic Studies "Mini-Mesters", Arete with "Symposium" and so on. This is excellent!
Yesterday, in a discussion with an administrator from a school in New York state, she asked me what is so great about PBL and STEM. To help answer this, I pulled together the below resources and thought that I would share them with everyone.
One thing that I would love all of you to do, is to watch the attached youtube video about 3D printing. This documentary will be out on Netflix shortly and exemplifies what is so amazing about PBL and STEM and REAL WORLD examples of WHY this is something so crucial to prepare our students for! The actual documentary is a MUST WATCH!!
Print The Legend - Video: MUST WATCH
PBL: Buck Institute for Education (world leader)
http://bie.org/ Conference in June
STEM: National Science Teaches Assoc. (of which I am a 20 year member)
http://www.nsta.org STEM conference in MAY
Best Robotics course in America! Carnegie Mellon University (I am certified as a STEM teacher through them...) http://www.education.
Maker Labs: (Putting PBL and STEM to work in schools)
good article about why so important:
Have a great Shabbat (Sabbath) and weekend.
Yossie!
Yossie FrankelDirector - Consortium for Information and Academic Technologies
Member Schools:
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy - yfrankel@hillelhebrew.org
Oakland Hebrew Day School - y.frankel@ohds.orgShalhevet High School - y.frankel@shalhevet.
Yeshivat Yavneh - www.yha.org
Member Schools:
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy - yfrankel@hillelhebrew.org
Oakland Hebrew Day School - y.frankel@ohds.orgShalhevet High School - y.frankel@shalhevet.
Yeshivat Yavneh - www.yha.org
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