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
Imagine a new way to learn, with a new space for learning in our schools. Inside, find team-rooms instead of classrooms. Outside, you will find real-world problems like safe drinking water. There’s a poem many of us studied in school called “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” with a famous line: “Water,
READ ON FOR SOME IDEAS ON HOW TO RESTORE PEACE AND SAFETY TO OUR SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS. NOTE: THIS BLOG WAS FIRST PUBLISHED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. GIVEN ITS IMPORTANCE, WE ARE PUBLISHING IT AGAIN. ======= Hashmarks (#) are all over the place these days. We have seen #MeToo which has helped stem abuse
We last left our RE@LBlog readers almost half way from the dairy farm to the milk in the glass on our tables. Here’s a photo of Al the Milkman waving goodbye as he heads his big truck to the nearest dairy producer and bottler. To read Part 1, click here. Many of us don’t
We know our RE@LBlog readers have seen our many stories about and references to our exciting new STEM Investigations package, RE@L STEM Investigation: Water Quality™. The good news is that product is now in the final stages of testing and soon will be available for pilot testing in several key schools. Then, with critical feedback from both teachers