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Designing and publishing an Android app with kids
This post is designed to provide some context around how/why we decided to build this app. The more technical details of the code and how we published it will come in a future post. My students and I...
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Publishing an App Inventor app to the Android Market
As I mentioned earlier, my students and I published an Android app to the Android Market. See those links for more information on the background. This post is decidedly technical. First, once we...
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Practical advice on kids and Android app development
After hearing about my students’ success developing an Android app, I’ve gotten several emails asking for more details as to how I practically worked with my kids. Here are some pointers that I offered...
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Two quick links on Cognitive Load Theory
I’ve been fielding lots of questions lately about Cognitive Load Theory. Here are two quick links that may be useful. First is an article talking about the practical implications of CLT on the design...
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Knowing, Teaching, Expertise, and More
Recently, Darren Kuropatwa and I got together for an open talk about the role of teaching in learning. Specifically, we wanted to talk about whether a student needs to effectively be able to teach a...
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Abandoning Moodle
I’ve become disillusioned with Moodle lately and this summer I made the decision to abandon it in favor of a new solution. Here is the process that I went through to make the decision. 1. Ever since I...
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Chris selected as K12OnlineConference keynote speaker
Each year the K12OnlineConference provides tremendous professional development for free, and entirely online. This year, they have selected me as one of their keynote speakers. I am thrilled to have...
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Chris selected as 20 under 40 honoree
Each year The State newspaper chooses 20 local leaders that are younger than 40 years of age. This year I am honored to have been chosen! You can read the entire article in Monday’s (February 20)...
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Initial thoughts on Google Course Builder
I suspect by now you’ve heard about Google Course Builder. It’s the course system that powered the Google Power Search course that Dan Russell put on not long ago....
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Lego NXT 2.0 Light Sensor programming woes EDIT: Fixed
I need some help please programming with the light sensor. I am brand new to Lego Robotics, so forgive me if this isn’t the right place. I am helping my daughter with a science fair project. We are...
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