The January 31st field trip of the Baden Academy Research Fellows finished up with yet another new world, the Field Robotics Center warehouse. The space was filled with robotics projects that have already changed our world and researchers building new ways to respond to the needs of humanity with robotic […]
Author: Dr. Ellen
Research fellows from Baden Academy got a chance to meet with several researchers from the Center for Nucleic Acids Science and Technology (CNAST) and its outreach effort, DNA Zone. We witnessed Genoa Warner demonstrate TAML® hydrogen peroxide activators and Taylor Canady demonstrate DNA structure. CNAST has united chemists, biologists, and […]
The first lab we visited on our 2014 CMU Field Trip was the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. We became members of an interdisciplinary team of programmers, psychologists, education designers, software architects, and computer engineers. Our third and fourth grade research fellows helped the team test their computer generated tutor as it […]
Infinitoy generously donated a Zoob Challenge Kit to the Baden Academy Media Lab. It’s wonderful! I can confidently say it is now the go to item whenever kids have a few unassigned moments in the lab. Lunch time and lab time will find two or three kids working together on […]
4th graders are busy taking a break from Virtual Worlds as they master electrical circuitry with their Asset Snap Circuit sets. Progress continues to finalize their STORM STORIES book. I was thrilled to welcome Miss Bianco’s and Miss Preffer’s second graders to the media lab last week. They did great […]
Virtual Worlds has begun to work on the individual species, creating and programming them in Alice 2. Students have already created a shared ecosystem on their virtual world with their teammates. Now, they are creating a unique species in their ecosystem, one that is part of the food web with […]
Dear Virtual World Parents, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope the holiday finds you and your children safe and warm, surrounded by a loving family. After the sledding adventures have exhausted your kids, and before you grow frustrated that they are spending too much time ‘playing’ games, challenge them to create them. […]
Students from Mrs. Keriotis’s class and I were able to talk briefly about Typhoon Haiyan. While I showed images of the satellite imagery of the Typhoon and mentioned that many had been hurt or killed, I made an effort to stay away from images of the devastation and added some […]
We are in the midst of our exploration of weather. Our virtual worlds have an atmosphere and a water cycle. This week we focus on clouds. Some ways to reinforce the lessons at home: Each student is writing a descriptive paragraph about a storm on their virtual world. We plan […]