Over 40 STEAM Resources: Creative Thinking, STEM, and PBL at FETC 2020 By Michael Gorman STEAM brings out the skills of creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication that are so important.
Creativity: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education By Michael Gorman “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
Critical Thinking: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education By Michael Gorman So many times we hear our students say, “Why am I learning this?”
Transforming STEM Education from a Noun to a Verb: STEM in all Areas, Part Two By Michael Gorman Think of STEM as a verb, not a noun. What are the skills that make up that STEM-based occupation? I
Transforming STEM Education from a Noun to a Verb: STEM in all Areas, Part One By Michael Gorman STEM action is something all content areas can embrace as they engage students in authentic learning.
Facilitating Student Owned Inquiry With The Right Question: Deeper Learning By Michael Gorman In a world filled with so much instant information, it is important to teach students to ask even more questions as they seek possible answers.
PBL and Content: 15 Ideas To Make Sure Project Based Learning Supports The Standards By Michael Gorman In true Project Based Learning the project uncovers and facilitates the learning of significant content.
Project Based Learning Done Right: 10 Misconceptions Plus 10 Resources to Raise the PBL Bar By Michael Gorman Let’s take a look at these ten areas, and also how we as educators can use PBL as a vehicle for authentic student-centered learning.
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 4: Exploring Search Engines and Databases By Michael Gorman In this post, I'll describe seven types of search engines all students and teachers should be aware of.
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 3: Questions, Process, Metacognition, and 15 Pre-Search Tools By Michael Gorman What are the strategies that are important to research before a student enters that first keyword in the search box?
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom, Part 2: 10 Resources for Student-Owned Questions By Michael Gorman In a world filled with so much instant information, it is important to teach students to ask even more questions as they seek possible answers.
Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom: The Driving Question and PBL, Part 1 By Michael Gorman The Driving Question or Investigative Question in Project Based learning and STEM can be often the hardest concept to get across to teachers.
NCAA Basketball Bracketology 2019: 34 BB Lesson Links By Michael Gorman In this post I provide a mix of educational ideas pressing full court toward the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
An Ed Tech Ground Hog Day Project-Based Learning Story By Michael Gorman I recently had the opportunity to contact Punxsutawney Phil using his Facebook account and he gives a different side of the story
Computational Thinking: Over 50 Resources To Teach CT Across the Entire Curriculum, Part 2 By Michael Gorman As educators, we must take that next step - teaching students to problem-solve and come up with algorithms of their own.
Computational Thinking: Ten Ways To Promote CT Across The Entire Curriculum, Part 1 By Michael Gorman This type of thinking is important not just in high stake testing, but also success in that world after school.
FETC Future of Educational Technology: Please Join Me By Michael Gorman Hello from Orlando Florida. I am excited about learning with thousands of other educators at this amazing conference.
Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning, Part 3: Math By Michael Gorman Looking for ideas that just might spark a PBL math idea?