RE@L brings you a recent podcast by our VP of Product Development, Don Rawitsch. Excellent interview from the Association for Educational Service Agencies (AESA) about RE@L’s new and upcoming STEM products (Investigations). Hear the background story on RE@L by Don. The upcoming release of our new STEM Investigation is a major step forward for our schools
In addition to REALMS students’ EL Education award-winning project, there have many other similar team-based experiences being planned. Click on the graphic to the right to see a video of their team-room, project-based world. It’s one of those “I do and I understand” places to learn. Sure beats the “Hear and Forget” and even the “See and Remember”. It’s
Thanks to our RE@LBlog “Teacher Corner” contributor, Todd LaFrenz, for reporting on his school’s national “Model of Excellence Award” from EL Education. Todd and his REALMS school faculty have been involved with hands-on, project-based and expeditionary learning for their students and for many years. There’s lots to be learned from their many successes. Click on the EL graphic to
Looking for hope for our next generations? So are we at RE@L! Look what came into our RE@L Inbox today. Look no further than our local Mpls-St Paul Star Tribune’s wonderful “Inspired” section. More “GOOD news” that’s fit to print, every Saturday. And, right here in our own two-river cities, at a school called: St. Paul’s
With this “RE@LBlog Repost”, we once again welcome guest blogger, Tami Brass, Director of Instructional Technology for St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul Minnesota. Tami has been teaching for over 20 years, having worked with diverse students in several school districts. She is also an Authorized Google Education Trainer, and
Stems are critical to all living things! Vegetables have them. So do apples which are now ready to eat on the apple trees! Autumn’s beautiful tree leaves have stems too. Their many colors light up the months before winter comes. So do we have stems? Yes, indeed! But that very different kind of stem is in our head. It’s
RE@L Blog brings you more from our STEM-ased EdTech Teachers Corner! Today we feature: Todd’s Ed Tech Teachers Corner™ Tips Back by popular demand is one of our pioneer Teachers Corner™ teachers! Today he brings us more tips on using EdTech & STEM ideas gleaned from a popular website, Mindshift™! Recall that Todd LaFrenz is a
Here’s a story about a kid who always wanted to fly. When he learned how to draw pictures, they weren’t of the sky with birds flying around…. No, his artwork was, instead, drawings of airplanes, and with him at the controls….up far above the birds and even higher than the clouds! Such is the stuff
We know for a fact that many teachers have read and/or bookmarked our RE@L Blogsite. Yes, we’ve had over 400,000 visitors to our site! More are following our RE@L Blog every day. Our most recent blog from our first RE@L Teacher Corner contributors, Jackie and Todd LaFrenz, was no exception. Their first Teacher Corner blog been featured on
Years ago in my K12 teaching days, our school district had a computer supervisor who, when asked if computers would ever replace teachers, responded with the comment in the headline you just read above. It’s still true. Computers and all related K12 ed-tech devices are still teaching tools. Teachers still teach. But to teach in today’s high-tech world they need