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Another successful WaterBot installation

Posted by Dror Yaron on December 19, 2011 at 1:30pm

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Hands-On Gigapan Training this Friday 1-4 PM

Posted by Dror Yaron on December 13, 2011 at 3:30pm

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Your Weekly News Roundup From Spark

Posted by Alayna Frankenberry on December 9, 2011 at 1:30pm

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Once home to Fred Rogers, Pittsburgh is now home to modern-day Fred Rogers who – like Fred – make use of child-centered media, technology, and arts to engage kids in learning, inspire their creative play, and generally provoke their innate curiosity about the world around them.

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First-Ever Digital Learning Day Tomorrow!!! at Internet Webcast

February 1, 2012 from 9am to 6:30pm
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, thirty-seven states, 10,000 teachers, and more than 1.5 million students will participate in the first-ever national Digital Learning Day, a national awareness campaign spearheaded by the Alliance for Excellent Education celebrating innovative teachers and highlighting instructional practices that strengthen teaching and personalize learning for all students.Visit their website to register for webinar sessions and to view complete details on presenters.See More
Event posted by Jennifer Morris 22 hours ago
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¡CREAR Y COMUNICAR! ART WORKSHOPS AT ASSEMBLE at assemble, a community space for arts + technology

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February 4, 2012 at 12pm to February 25, 2012 at 3pm
“¡Crear y Comunicar!” is a series of art workshops run by Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE): Nicaragua at Assemble Art Space. The workshops will be free and open to all children within the greater Pittsburgh community, and they will take place during Saturday afternoons in February (on the 4th, the 11th, and the 18th) from 12pm to 3pm, with the final workshop on Thursday, February 23rd from 5pm to 8pm. SIFE: Nicaragua is a student group at Carnegie Mellon that travels annually to Nicaragua.…See More
Marielle Saums is attending Nina Marie Barbuto's event yesterday
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Marielle Saums is now a member of PGH Kids and Creativity Monday
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Adam Gebhardt, Matt, meghan olson and 1 more joined PGH Kids and Creativity Jan 24
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K+C Digest - January 17, 2012

Greetings Colleagues,2012 is starting off with a Bang! There are already many opportunities and events, creative new discoveries and more coming our way this year.To start things off, the first issue of 2012 contains several interesting articles on using creativity in and out of the classroom. In addition, you'll find more detailed information about the following:1. The Alliance for Excellent Education's first ever Digital Learning Day will happen on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. Visit …See More
Discussion posted by Jennifer Morris Jan 18
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Teresa DeFlitch is now a member of PGH Kids and Creativity Jan 18
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Study shows that kids, unlike adults, think technology is fundamentally human

Latitude’s Robots @ School study, which was conducted January 2012, asked kids across the world to illustrate and write a story that answers this question: “What would happen if robots were a part of your everyday life — at school and beyond?”The results provide a compelling look on how youngsters feel about modern technology, and most importantly, reveals that tech has a huge potential for blurring the lines between learning…See More
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Dr. Alice Wilder and Ryan Coon are now friends Jan 11

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K+C Digest - January 17, 2012

Greetings Colleagues,2012 is starting off with a Bang! There are already many opportunities and events, creative new discoveries and more coming our way this year.To start things off, the first issue of 2012 contains several interesting articles on…Continue

Started by Jennifer Morris in Upcoming Events Jan 18.

Nina Marie Barbuto

Would you like to have a workshop at Assemble? LET US KNOW!

We are booking for 2012! Let us know if you have something you would love to get in the hands of hungry learners. Share your ideas with fresh minds! We are looking ideally for events to happen on Saturdays from 12-4pm. It doesn't have to take up the…Continue

Tags: new, ideas, fresh, minds, kids

Started by Nina Marie Barbuto in Upcoming Events Dec 18, 2011.

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December 16, 2011 - K+C Digest

Greetings!Attached is the latest Digest, which will be the last before the New Year. I can hardly believe it!Inside, you'll find some interesting tech trends and ideas to look forward to in 2012.Also mentioned in this Digest is a very cool project…Continue

Started by Jennifer Morris in Upcoming Events Dec 16, 2011.

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Education Week Article on STEAM

From Gregg:Dear Colleagues --An article entitled "Building STEAM: Blending the Arts with STEM Subjects" was published in the December 7 issue of Education Week. For those of you with a subscription, here's the link:…Continue

Started by Jennifer Morris in Upcoming Events Dec 12, 2011.

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Call for Entries Festival 2011 now open!

Cinekid is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary! With this festive edition fast approaching, we invite everyone to come and join the festival and to send in creative and interesting projects for our markets.

We invite professionals to find production partners, qualitative children's content and to grab the possibility for networking with hundreds of other professionals in the field of child and media. Cinekid opens up the European market for your production.

Cinekid for Professionals will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from October 18th until October 21st 2011.

 

Play Power: How to Turn Around our Creativity Crisis

The division between work and play is a myth. If America is going to teach its youth to innovate, we need to unite the two.  An interesting article featured in The Atlantic.

 

Learning, Digital Media and Creative Play in Early Childhood

The MacArthur Foundation's Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

 

Can Arts Education be a Savior to the Economy?

A special Article written by Jim Denova of the Benedum Foundation and Gregg Behr of The Grable Foundation.

 

Putting Some Pop in Education

 

Read Ellen Galinsky's Huffington Post article on education reform

Read About the Girls, Math and Science Partnership's proposal to the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition

Kids in Hospitals Get a KICK Out of Interactive Game Systems

Educational Video Games Mix Cool With Purpose

Geo-caching combines outdoors adventure and space-age technology

CMU grad students build 3-D snowball fight

New exhibit hopes to intrigue next generation of researchers
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