Tales From CREATE

I found my AI “line.” I really don’t care if the information that I read was constructed with generative AI. As long as it’s accurate and en...

In the 1991 movie, LA Story, Steve Martin’s character is in bed with the character portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. Martin says, “Your bre...

Makerspaces are in-person experiences. You have to be in the room to cut the cardboard. But who is “you?“ One of the things that we keep hea...

There have been quite a few articles written by educators, urging operational AI education as a way for students to remain relevant in the w...

In the old story about the blind men and the elephant, each man stood near a different part of the elephant and described what they thought ...

My presentations to K-12 educators have always been subtitled "Why and How (In that order.)" That's because the most important...

I’ve written frequently about permanent job losses caused by artificial intelligence. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick still allows for hope ...

Last January, I wrote about changes in this blog to encompass more about STEAM education and Project Based Learning ( Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes! (...

Tinker Time is a drop-in based time, during lunch and after school, when students can freely work on the projects of their choice. The only ...

From the beginning, Tales From CREATE has been about educational makerspaces. While that isn't changing, I’m going to start including so...

One of the commonly held myths about school is that our primary function is to teach children. In fact, our goal is to send home the same nu...

Starfleet cadet, James T. Kirk was doing standardized testing. Faced with a deliberately impossible test, designed to evaluate his behavior ...

MakerEd is not, repeat, not shop class. We are not (not!) training people how to build things with their hands so they can go out and build ...

All of us are born makers and innovators. Just have a conversation with a five-year-old. Their sense of the world has not been solidified or...

Integrating MakerEd into education has to honor the expectation of benchmarks, if not standards. Even though I've been really plugged-...

CREATE(ing) time If you ask any teacher what one thing that they need more of (besides money) they will tell you that they need more time...

Sacrificial workbench tops Wear and tear is one of the things built into our workbenches . Students will cut without mats, scraping-up hot...

We rely a great deal on the kindness of strangers. Sort-of strangers, actually. Much of our material is donated by our families or by busine...

Last Spring, our campus became a construction site. Portable classrooms were trucked in, regular classrooms were emptied, concrete broken up...

More than a year after our Donors Choose campaign, we finally inaugurated our Lego wall. Here's the explainer video:

I just thought I'd post a list of the things that we purchase to keep CREATE moving. These are non-"junk" consumables. Typi...

We have a new Lego Wall, now what? Tools can be engaging, making can inspire agency, but all of it needs to support education. I saw a ...

I implemented Mrs. Dickson's unintended inspiration. If you recall from "Mrs. Dickson's Protein Sprayer," I took a misund...

Here's a cool Python tool to play around with. Change the variables and press the play button. If you mess-up, click on the three horiz...

Video recorded from a live Google Hangout On Air for EdCamp Global on July 30, 2016. (46:00)

After a while you just run out of room for memorabilia. I know that I cannot keep every project. Some of them contain expensive components t...

Bear with me on this. I promise that I'll get to a very cool tinker-time tool. During the last school year, CREATE shared duties as ou...

It was just an afterschool 1st-grade tinker time session. But they came rushing in with a goal. It was a classmate's birthday and they w...

It started with a plan to make a "rattle." Rather than accept a plan to throw some hard stuff into a bottle and call it done. I...

It's interesting to see the students gain knowledge and confidence. They've got measuring down and now I've introduced laying ou...

When an afterschool tinker time regular asked me if we had a caulking gun, I didn't now how to answer. Nothing we had done in CREATE cal...