Kinderlab Robotics highlights the KIBO robot at K-Lo. View article at: http://kinderlabrobotics.com/blog/view-from-the-classroom-kennedy-longfellow-elementary-school.
Category: Media Coverage
Cambridge Elementary Students Learn Robotics Thanks to Grant
EdTech Times reporter Michelle Harven covers the Kennedy-Longfellow School Hour of Code event. View article at: http://edtechtimes.com/2014/12/19/cambridge-elementary-students-learn-robotics-code-thanks-grant/
Looking Back on Computer Science Education Week 2014
Microsoft New England reporter Aimee Sprung covers Hour of Code events all over Massachusetts, including K-Lo’s makerspace activities. View article at: http://blog.microsoftnewengland.com/2014/12/18/looking-back-on-computer-science-education-week-2014
Looking to the Future, Cambridge Partnership Teaches Kindergarteners to Code
The WBUR Learning Lab‘s Peter Balono-Rosen covers the K-Lo Hour of Code week. View article at: http://learninglab.wbur.org/2014/12/15/looking-to-the-future-cambridge-partnership-teaches-kindergartners-to-code/.
littleBits Electronics Scratch Extension
littleBits annouces the Scratch 2.0 extension, created by Lesley’s own Kreg Hanning. View article at: http://goo.gl/VLB2bS.
Innovative Lesley Program Prevents Summer Learning Loss
Lesley University and Cambridge Mayor David Maher announce that 23 children received free tuition to the Summer Compass program, thanks to new scholarship funds awarded through Lesley, the mayor’s office and the Cambridge Public Schools. View article at: http://www.lesley.edu/news/2014/09/innovative-program-prevents-summer-learning-loss/.
Using Tablets to Teach–Not Distract–In the Classroom
Industry analysts predict that schools will purchase 3.5 million tablets by year’s end. How is this changing the classroom? WGBH’s innovation reporter Cristina Quinn takes a look at a digital platform that is helping teachers gauge student learning on the fly. View article at: http://wgbhnews.org/post/using-tablets-teach-not-distract-classroom.
Digital Learning Tools: Technology is transforming the classroom
WGBH Greater Boston host Emily Rooney interviews our very own, Sue Cusack, regarding the use of digital devices to support student-centered learning:
Transformative Partnership
The Lesley University Graduate School of Education is in its third year of a close partnership with the Kennedy-Longfellow School, an elementary school in Cambridge, to explore the transformational uses of educational technology in an urban public school setting. View article at: http://www.lesley.edu/kennedy-longfellow-partnership/?terms=transformative%20partnership.
Lesley, Kennedy-Longfellow partner to reimagine S.T.E.M. learning
Forget rows of students seated behind desktops; in the computer labs of the future, students will be building robots and writing code. Cambridge Chronicle’s Erin Baldassari covers the integration of STEM into the Kennedy-Longfellow School. View article at: http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1039480562/Lesley-Kennedy-Longfellow-partner-to-reimagine-S-T-E-M-learning.