Editors’ Note: From time to time our RE@L Blogsite will repost a RE@L STEM Case Study as they appear sequentially on our RE@L Homepage. As always, your comments and suggestions are appreciated. Simply email us at the address below. ====== Welcome To Our New RE@L Website Feature: “Learning More From STEM Case Studies.” If you are one
RE@L is truly pleased to have found an informative article on traveling “The Oregon Trail,” by Jennifer Billock in the current online Smithsonian Magazine. Fascination with The Oregon Trail never seems to end. It always finds new legs, or to be more accurate, more wagon wheels moving. It keeps on rolling along. Fans and gamers are still following
RE@L welcomes Guest Blogger Dolly Santos to our growing list of contributors on cutting-edge EdTech topics. Dolly blogs regularly on her site: DollyMath.com, with useful tips and current information for teachers, kids and parents. Dolly picked a topic dear to our RE@L heart: EdTech Resources for K12 that focus on the latest technologies. Technology makes our many
Let’s Ask Instead: What DOESN’T Work? — Why? It Can Lead Us To What DOES WORK! Your Blogmeisters were both math teachers who cut our teeth and sharpened our pencils and chalk-nubs in the early 60′s. EdTech and EdReform were just beginning to come up on our national radar. When then President Kennedy made his famous, “Ask Not…” inaugural speech, we took
We have another opportunity to make more learning happen for more kids!!! Thousands of kids here in MN have already started school for the 2016-17 school year. Others will start the day after Labor Day after the last hurrah of our Minnesota State Fair. Many years ago, some of us, as young students, thought that Labor Day meant
Last week, we proudly announced that the Smithsonian Online Magazine published an article on Oregon Trail™, one more in a series of announcements about OT’s growing popularity on the internet, and all points of the compass. Just in case you didn’t read their fine article by freelance writer Matt Jancer, here’s the link to it. RE@L
REAL congratulates Liz Bryan for her dedication to bringing real-world K12 skills to the students and teachers she has served. Here’s the text of the NTN Susan Schilling Legacy Award announcement: “On behalf of the entire New Tech Network community, it is my pleasure to recognize Liz for an extraordinary career as an educator. Her dedication, ability
The Trail Masters from MECC who brought the K12 EdTech world the Oregon Trail™ (OT) have been honored again! The first time, all the kudos came as a result of this time-honored computer game of OT being chosen by The Strong National Museum’s Video Game Hall of Fame this past May. Yes, there have been many video games chosen
We, at RE@L, are very proud of MECC’s recent foray into the news and Associated Press releases. What used to be called “getting a lot of ink”, in the old all-print days, has become “getting a lot of links” in these high-tech days of online news and social media….Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and you name it! What’s
Special thanks from RE@L to our local newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, for their recent news article on the donation of MECC memorabilia to The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. The Strong Museum recently honored the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) by inducting their flagship software product, Oregon Trail™, into