Re-thinking STEM Education in a Pandemic
Written by Robin Garand
As we sit here and reflect on our journey through the year. I am continuously grateful for the opportunities I have been given with Cohort 21 to meet, discuss and learn from other educators who approach the field with such passion. To finish up the year I would like to use some of the question […]
Written by Robin Garand
It has been a fun past few months in which my How Might We has grown and changed from my first year with Cohort 21. Where I have started with wanting to create opportunities for mistakes in math has led to me diving deeper in to my new question. I realize I cannot accomplish this […]
Written by Robin Garand
As we head into our second F2F and people begin to reflect on what is urgent and important, I thought I would take some time to reflect on my journey so far, both as a participant and coach in Cohort 21. What makes this next F2F so much fun, but also so intimidating, is that […]
Written by Robin Garand
Today was a really fun day, I was able to try out my first round of woodworking in the maker space during Wellness Wednesday. The goal was to have students build a small box out of popsicle sticks and balsa wood. Within that task, they would learn to use proper measuring techniques, how to use […]
Written by Robin Garand
I hope everyone has been having a good start to the year, it’s been a complete whirlwind for me but I wanted to take some time to reflect on some great successes I’ve had so far this year as well as commit to my goals for the future. This year I was so happy to […]
Written by Robin Garand
As I’m sitting here working with @lbettencourt over zoom all i can think of is the 8 million things I need to do currently, from checking student process journals to prepping home demos for science lessons. While I’m doing this, an itching in the back of my mind is constantly saying ‘what about the blog?…. […]
Written by Robin Garand
I left our latest face to face on Saturday feeling really energized and excited, especially to the concept of renewing my commitment to sharing what I am doing and how that has been helping me within my classroom. To that end I decided to share a resource I have been sharing with my teammates at […]
Written by Robin Garand
So it’s been quite a while since I posted, and as I had stated before my goal this year was to find ways to keep STEM in the classroom as hands on and messy as possible while learning in this new environment. This December I was fortunate enough to be sent to the ISTE conference […]
Written by Robin Garand
It’s only been about 36 hours since the term ended and I wanted to take a minute to put some ideas down to help me go through everything that has happened this term and to help myself get in to a mind space that can help me re-centre and enjoy the holiday. As I was […]
Written by Robin Garand
Welcome back to Messy STEM! This week I will be continuing my coding theme and focusing on designing video games. The software I use for this is called Gamemaker Studio 2. Let me start by saying this is an authentic software. It has been used to create a wide variety of popular video games including […]
