If you enjoy the free articles, podcasts, and videos on design thinking, project-based learning, and creativity, you might want to take a deeper dive with my online courses, where I share tools and strategies you can use next week. Not sure yet? Try a shorter on-demand webinar. If you’re curious about having me provide a workshop or keynote, please fill out the form at the bottom.
In this course, we explore the structures and strategies for project-based learning as you design your own PBL unit. I walk you through your most common questions, including how to assess projects, how to facilitate collaboration, and how to align your projects to the standards.
After completing the Empowered Readers course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and resources you need to transform your classroom reading program. You will not only feel confident in giving students more autonomy in their reading, but you will also have the step-by-step implementation plan for empowering each and every one of your students
Design thinking is a flexible framework to get the most of the creative process. It’s used in the arts, in engineering, and in social and civic spaces. But how do we make this happen for students? In this course, I walk you step-by-step through the structures and strategies to boost student ownership in the design process.
In this ten-day course, we focus on how to engage students in distance learning by focusing on student empowerment. I provide practical strategies for building student self-direction and self-management.
Makerspaces are about more than just 3D printers and drones. In fact, they often include low budget, vintage tools. Simply put, a makerspace is a space design specifically to boost creativity and hands-on learning. In this course, I walk you through how to design a makerspace in a week and answer your burning questions about makerspaces.
In this FREE self-paced, on-demand webinar, we explore the key basics of how to set up a makerspace, including what you might want to buy, how you might organize the space, and what it might look like to get buy-in from stakeholders. It’s a great first step before taking the full master course.
Vintage Innovation redefines innovation not as “new and flashy” but as “better and different.” It isn’t a rejection of new approaches or cutting-edge technology so much as an embrace of the old and the new. It’s the overlap of the “tried and true” and the “never tried.” It’s a mash-up of lo-fi tech and new tech. In this course, we examine how to prepare students for the future by empowering them in the present.
PBL can seem daunting when you have time constraints, standards, and a curriculum map. What does it look like? How do you even get started? In this introductory course, we begin with the “why” and move into the “how.” I share a brief overview of how PBL works and what mistakes we want to avoid as we get started.
