How to Talk to Your Kids Without Giving Them the Answer

Discussion, activities, and resources for adults to encourage creative thinking and problem solving presented by DevTech Researchers and Early Childhood Technology (ECT) Graduate Certificate alumni and instructors on early childhood education with a focus on technology. These activities will be useful for learning at home and at school.

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Project Invent: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Virtual PBL

Project Invent is dedicated to empowering students to solve real-world problems, not just ones in textbooks. Project-based learning shouldn’t stop just because students are learning from home. Join Project Invent for this special webinar on how to empower your students to continue doing project-based work, even during distance learning. They will be covering various tips, […]

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Music – Learning in the Making: LIVE!

Looking for something fun to make at home? Each week we are collecting and curating resources around a topic and this week is music! Check out this activity to learn how vibrations create sound, and join us as we build some instruments and make music together! To make your own musical instruments, you will need the […]

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Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session III

Session III: Listening for Equity: Resisting White Supremacy in Virtual Spaces In this third 1-hour session, principal, blogger, and racial equity coach Joe Truss will join Shane Safir to examine how we can think about self-care as a radical, antiracist response to the pandemic and how to notice and disrupt white supremacy culture in virtual […]

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Facilitating Rich Math Tasks Remotely Graham Fletcher

Rich math tasks are designed to promote student discourse and sensemaking in the classroom. In this time of remote learning, how can we adapt our facilitation of rich tasks so students have access to interesting mathematics from home? During this 45-minute free webinar, Graham Fletcher will talk about remote ways to facilitate 3-Act Math Tasks, […]

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Creativity and Engineering with Household Robotics

Join the CA STEAM Symposium’s Lunch Bites Webinar Series for an art infused session where we’ll explore engaging at-home activities integrating math, engineering and the design process with guest presenter Nancy McIntyre from the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation.

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Bay Area Maker Educator Meetup

We are living in an unprecedented time, where teachers are being asked to completely shift their practices to a remote model. Whether we are designing activities to send home to students, teaching online via Zoom, filming videos for students to watch asynchronously (or all of the above!), we are all doing so while we ourselves […]

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Listening Leadership in a time of Pandemic: Session IV

Session IV: Listening for Equity: Reaching Students & Families at the Margins In this final session, we’ll think about what it means to live outside the testing paradigm for a minute. How do we rethink our measures of equity without the standard metrics guiding us? I’ll offer you hands-on tools for gathering equity data right now that […]

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Let’s Invent! with Makey Makey

Join the Makey Makey team live on Tuesday mornings to invent with everyday things you have lying around the house! We will share ideas for using Makey Makey, and also share invention ideas you can do with other items! Come have fun and invent with us! Recording will be available on our blog: makeymakey.com/blog

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