Tales From CREATE

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...