David Lee EdTech

This video gives tribute to David Wallace, the professor who teaches the iconic   2.009: Product Engineering Processes  class at MIT. This class teaches students about the process of designing and engineering innovative, market-ready products. Some of the teams who create these products start their own company based on what they create in this class. The following is a list of how David's students and colleagues described him in the video: Energy is infectious; enthusiastic Artist and scientist Empowering Sensitive to human values Intrinsically humble Strives for perfection; attention to detail Unrelenting drive Leads by example Spirit of having fun Spends hours and hours in the shop with students working on their projects In our  Applied Learning Program , we also provide students with challenges where they create market-ready products. We have two spaces in our elementary school that we call the KoLAB spaces; where students w...

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This video is the entry event to our kindergarten unit on weather and climate.  Music by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/) Intro: "Pamgaea" Outro: "Exit the Premises" Background: "Daily Beetle" Images in Thumbnail from: "A wintery, February day in St. Paul" by William Wesen (https://goo.gl/z48LPY) "Agriculture in Vietnam with farmers" by Dennis Jarvis (https://goo.gl/ygk919) Website: www.davidleeedtech.org Twitter: twitter.com/davidleeedtech Instagram: instagram.com/davidleeedtech Blog: davidleeedtech.wordpress.com

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Tinkercad website (www.tinkercad.com) Tinkercad Tutorial (www.youtube.com/watch?t=68&v=MwjWT-EvKSU) da Vinci 2.0 Duo Software (http://goo.gl/Zj90fL) da Vinci 2.0 Duo tutorial (https://goo.gl/HKAt7n)

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"Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative"  is a book by Austin Kleon that shows how creativity is for everyone through the use of some principles and strategies. The book also explains how all ideas are not original, but that “every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.” The idea that  ALL people have a huge potential for creativity  is one of the core ideas we would like to include in our new  STEM program  we are planning to start this coming school year (2015-2016). Here are some of the valuable quotes I found from the book: ❶ Steal Like an Artist “If we’re  free from the burden  of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can  embrace influence  instead of running away from it.” pg. 8 “Every new idea is just a  mashup or a remix  of one or more previous ideas.” pg. 9 “The artist is a...

Creative Confidence ,  a book by David and Tom Kelley, explains how  EVERYONE  can tap into their creative potential. It identifies numerous strategies and principles for creativity and innovation that can help people solve problems in their lives. One strategy the brothers,  David  and Tom, talked about throughout the book is  empathy . The human-centered approach of the  design thinking  process requires deep empathy (needs, motivations, and desires) and understanding of people. The design thinking approach is used to find solutions for specific users. The book mentions a tool called the  Empathy Map  that helps organize what users  say ,  think ,  do , and  feel  so that the  Needs  and  Insights  of the users can be identified. After the Needs and Insights are identified, a solution can be developed, prototyped, and tested for the user. The following is an Empathy Map that I ...

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Intro and outro music by GANZ, "Hermitude x Flume - Hyperparadise": goo.gl/9g0aX3 Additional music by Kevin MacLeod, "Odyssey": goo.gl/3uk08D www.davidleeedtech.org Twitter: twitter.com/davidleeedtech Instagram: instagram.com/davidleeedtech Blog: davidleeedtech.wordpress.com Watch the video in Youtube here: via http://www.youtube.com/ronaldhopechannel

Myebookmaker Tutorial This video shows you how to use the tools in myebookmaker via YouTube http://youtu.be/VQCGK130TVw

Creating an e-Book in Youblisher Students will be taking the Google Doc version of their short story final draft, downloading it as a PDF file and then uploading it to Youblisher to create an e-Book. Created with TechSmith Snagit for Google Chrome™ http://goo.gl/ySDBPJ via YouTube http://youtu.be/pwrixXlzAhw

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Click the image to see the video. OK GO’s music video: https://goo.gl/qwCSK Buck Institute for Education website: www.bie.org Flowchart of a PBL Project: https://goo.gl/tT4iGX Essential Elements of PBL: http://bie.org/about/what_pbl Essential Elements of PBL Checklist: http://goo.gl/9gLbcU

Image from  TEDxAmericasFinestCity Recently  Danielle Rich , our ES principal, shared with me a  video about High Tech High (HTH) and its CEO Larry Rosenstock . HTH and Larry Rosenstock has created a network of charter schools that uses its  four designing principles  (personalization, adult world connection, and common intellectual mission, teacher as designer) to create learning environments that are radically different than traditional ones. This led me to create a  YouTube playlist of videos of Larry Rosenstock interviews . Here are some of the things I learned from him: "Most Memorable Learning Experience" exercise where teachers share two learning experiences that they felt were memorable; common answers (project, community, fear of failure, recognition of success, mentorship, public display of work) Project Phases: observation, reflection, documentation, presentation STEAM instead of STEM because art and design are central to all as...

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Here is a clip of Leo Laporte interviewing Robin Hauser Reynolds, the director of the documentary,  CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap.  This documentary explores why there is a huge gender gap among software engineers.  Here is the full interview: 

The KoLAB program provides students with transdisciplinary STEM learning opportunities through culminating challenges that integrate multiple academic subject areas. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for more EdTech/STEM videos! Music by Kevin MacLeod ("Son of a Rocket") http://incompetech.com/

This is the video trailer for my extended session, "The STEMedu Startup ," for Learning2 2015. In my workshop attendees will: Experience hands-on STEM activities that involve prototyping, experimentation, and tinkering through an innovative design approach. Attendees will also learn effective implementation strategies and develop a framework in designing a successful STEM program for their school. Finally attendees will learn about the transdisciplinary component of STEM and how multiple disciplines can be integrated through culminating challenges. For more information on the extended session, please visit this page:  http://learning2asia.org/leaders/david-lee/ . To register for the Learning2 conference in Asia please visit their website:  http://learning2asia.org/ . I would like to thank Katie Fleetwood, Jon Barry, Sarah Donaldson, Katie Thomas, Helen Nam, Alice Ahn, and Amy Cabaluna for being in the video. Also a special thanks to Megan Godek for some of th...

Cloud storage is an awesome option for students and teachers who don't have enough storage space on their laptops or mobile devices. Cloud storage services will allow you to access all your files anywhere (desktop, phones, laptops, or tablet), share files with your colleagues, and organize them in folders or albums. Additionally, if your computer ever crashes or gets destroyed, you will still have access to your files on your different cloud storage services. 

In this project students took on the role of architects from an architecture firm. Their objective was to design a home for Mr. Python and his family. Mr. Python provided a few specifications for the design: Home must have a footprint of 150 to 250 square meters (The footprint is the area of the home site, defined by the perimeter of the building plan.) At least 3 bedrooms (One master bedroom, one for the daughter and one for the son) Wants lot of natural sunlight coming into the home Multi-story home (home that has multiple of floors) Home must be a composite rectangular prism, made up of at least three or more of these rectangular prisms that are all different sizes (Composite rectangular prism: composed of two or more non-overlapping right rectangular prisms) Would like to know the volume of each of the non-overlapping rectangular prisms and also the total volume of the home Here is the video of Mr. Python asking students to design a home for his ...

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