We Lost Another Great Artist – Snooky Young R.I.P
Eugene “Snooky” Young was one of the baddest jazz and studio trumpet players who ever lived. He passed away last week at the age of …
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Google Science Fair Video of CMK 2011 Speaker
Constructing Modern Knowledge 2011 (July 11-14, 2011) guest speaker and MIT Media Lab reception host, Dr. Mitchel Resnick, was recently interviewed for the Google Science …
New Keynote & Workshop Topics for 2011-2012
In addition to the keynote addresses, presentation topics and workshops offered here (including the three popular keynotes listed below), I have created new hands-on minds-on …
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Cynthia Solomon, EdTech Heroine
There’s chatter from time-to-time within the edtech community about the lack of women in prominent roles. Yet, some of the most important pioneers in the …
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Supersize CMK
I created Constructing Modern Knowledge (CMK) four years ago as a labor of love. I was growing increasingly concerned that educators lacked the time necessary …
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Teachers: Watch this and Try not to Cry – Then DO SOMETHING!
60 Minutes just aired a two-part story that stands in their grand tradition of breathtaking journalism. The report tells the story of Gospel for Teens, …
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Make the World a Better Place!
Feeling overwhelmed by unrest in the Middle East, the economic crisis, threats of nuclear annihilation, teacher layoffs, union-busting, the firing of the Aflac duck or …
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Virtual Handout
Subscribe to be kept up-to-date on CMK 2016 news & speakers My latest book, “Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.” …
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Introducing The Daily Papert
A few weeks ago, I quietly launched a new site, The Daily Papert to bring Seymour Papert’s powerful ideas to our short attention-span culture. I …
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What I’m Currently Reading
A friend of mine just asked Facebook friends what they’re reading. Here is my current list if you don’t included the other thousand or so …