RE@L is pleased this week to excerpt a recent article from a local online publication, “MINNEINNO“. Click on the link to the left for their full story. Their new national consortium focuses on tech innovations, as well as locally here in Minnesota. In their most recent Minnesota issue of “MINNEINNO,” author Maddy Kennedy describes the roles of MECC and other
As this new school year begins, we who work with K12 education Have another opportunityto make this school year Even more successful than the last one! To help make that happen, your RE@L Blog team has been busy parsing and exploring the internet looking for tips and ideas to make that opportunity for “even better” to happen for
For Immediate Release Joe Cotter, 952 469 3454, joe.cotter@learnersedgeinc.com Paul Gullickson, 619 316 9257, pgullickson@realexperiencesatlife.com Learners Edge & Real Experiences at Life, Inc. (RE@LTM) Announce a Strategic Alliance to Provide Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) On-Line Teacher Training Courses. MINNEAPOLIS, MN (August 16, 2017) Learners Edge and RE@L are pleased to
“Welcome Back Students, Teachers and Parents!” That’s the annual battle cry in K12 education these school-opening days. It drives our never-ending K12 efforts to stamp out ignorance and help generate more successful lifelong learners. We are each and all of us working hard to make that happen, and we don’t give up! Every year we get
RE@L just chanced upon a summer blog this week by former RE@L guest-blogger, Anne Jolly. It brought to mind that Nat King Cole song that some of us older teachers may still recall: “Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, Those days of soda and pretzels and beer, Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, Dust
RE@L wants to pause for a moment in our day’s occupations of teaching all those dear students out there who depend on us whether they know it or not. Many kids do know it, of course, witness this letter we found on Facebook today, published on a great website called “Bored Teachers.” It’s a blogsite worth your
Last year, MECC’s Oregon Trail™ world-famous simulation game was selected by the The STRONG Museum of Play to be enshrined in its heralded Hall of Fame. Today, we have another exciting Press Release from them! Read on! You may recall our earlier RE@L Blog on that great Hall of Fame honor. Click here. Yes it was an honor!
Almost 40 years ago this young girl posed for a LEGO ad showing what she could do with her newly-designed home and carport…or is it a heliocopter-port? Maybe both. We at RE@L like to think she not only knew how to build new designs, but she also liked to play with her MECC science- and
The operative question to many us still is: “How can I teach in the midst of unexpected chaos or disengagement? How can I keep my passion to help all kids learn when so many are passionate about their non-learning?” That’s the same question that we at RE@L wrestle with as we create software products and
Editors Note: Given the growing interest in STEM and Project-Based Learning, RE@L is reprinting a relevant blog from our Guest Blogger, Bob Pearlman, first published in January 2016. The four options he lists for training STEM staff are still valid today. That is the very path that RE@L has chosen for the development of our STEM