Of everything Ive experienced, read, and seen over my many years of teaching kids to “Create and Share Their Ideas with Technology” I really worry that most kids today will be great consumers but have no idea how any of their day to day technology actually WORKS …. the technology school are embracing more and ...

I will be showing the kids creation tools and our modifications to the above tools over the summer: SNAP (with GreenbushLabs storage)! http://www.greenbushlabs.com/GBsnap/snap.html   ThreeJS (with GreenbushLabs storage)! http://www.greenbushlabs.com/ThreeJS/examples

A blast from the past … A re-post of my Nov. 2006 post on the future 3D direct manipulation on interactive surfaces and haptics. http://blog.greenbushlabs.com/?p=159 As you may be aware of my interest in natural input and the direct maipulation of virtual objects in education by my work with the Edusim project (http://edusim3d.com). Natural input ...

Having preached this message for many years, I was thrilled to see this video ! code.org

The President has recently endorsed not only 3D printing technology in the latest state of the union address, but also is seen here in a Google Hangout endorsing a computer programming language for high school students.

… Go play ! http://beta.scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/

Presentation Slides http://info.scratch.mit.edu/About_Scratch http://www.khanacademy.org/cs http://www.hummingbirdkit.com

From Scratch Game Builders to the Hummingbird Programmable Collage Scratch Snap & the Hummingbird Kit

SketchFab Puts 3D in your Browser, and on a Smartboard or interactive surface provides and Edusim & 3D immersive touch like experience ! … Load it on your Smartboard & play !

I seen the Hummingbird Labs demo, its a very very new approach to robotics & “electronic textiles” - http://www.hummingbirdkit.com/?q=content/example-robots … its very cool because it can be programmed with Snap (an iteration of the Scratch visual programming environment) … its more expensive ($199 for one kit but has 3 motors, 5 sensors, & 5 LEDs ...

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My Natural User Interface credentials go back a ways with Edusim & the 3D/Interactive Surface work, back to 2007 to be exact. I am always excited when I see this field evolve ! The Leap Motion Sensor is nothing extremely new to those in the NUI field … what is new is the $70 price ...

just a few to get you thinking ! FoldIt – http://fold.it & EteRNA – http://eterna.cmu.edu

One survey of student attitudes towards STEM found that “it is almost universal that mathematics and science is seen as boring and not related to real life” – Enter SparkTruck One longitudinal study found that SparkTruck experience with high school scientific research bumped the actual decision to choose a career in science about 13%. SparkTruck ...

“Tinkering” with TinkerCad & mad a simple IPad stand in a matter of minutes … tinkercad has come a long way in the past few months ! I can even embed the model & upload to Thingieverse ! Grab it from Thingiverse

“A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.” ~ Mark Yarnell “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” ~ John Maxwell “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams “When the effective leader is ...

How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination