Ideas, like viruses, come to infect our thinking. Of some, we are never cured. This post describes one I will suffer gloriously until I die….
Tag Archives: learning
The Most Amazing Day(s): Teaching as Experience Design
For the past few days, ever since inNOVAtion Lab’s phenomenal trip to Corbett Inc.’s Fluxspace, I’ve been trying to figure out what has been happening in class. The trip to Flux was a highlight of a very young year, and it comes on the heels of another highlight, our trip to the B.Phl Innovation Festival Continue reading “The Most Amazing Day(s): Teaching as Experience Design”
Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education
At the beginning of the year, I discovered that a local design firm in my neighborhood was opening an incubator/maker/presentation/learning space in a turn of the 20th-century woollen mill. Dubbed Flux, the space was exactly what I have been trying to create in my own school, only about 7 times bigger! So I had toContinue reading “Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education”
NOVA Lab Branding
Consider the story: A class about turning the learning over to the learner, but with the support and structure to make sure it’s productive and purposeful A space within the school for you to put your ideas, your passions, your time to use figuring out why things are the way they are, and designingContinue reading “NOVA Lab Branding”
PA Dept. of Transportation Design Challenge
Wolf Administration’s “Innovations Challenge” Invites Students to Develop Technologies, Solutions to Combat Roadway Litter Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today that students in grades 9-12 are invited to participate in the third PennDOT Innovations Challenge which encourages students to use their problem-solving,Continue reading “PA Dept. of Transportation Design Challenge”