You know how you make anything cooler? You make a steampunk version of it! Okay, maybe not. But I had some vaguely steampunk-ish items lying around the apartment, and a museum full of science apparatus and toys. So this was the best I could come up with. So here it is: STEAMPUNK ENTOMOLOGIST. Complete with …
Interesting news in the digital learning field. It looks like there will be a 2016 Digital Media and Learning conference, despite MacArthur Foundation ending their support for the DML area this year. *Save the Date!* The 2016 DML Conference will be held Oct. 5-7, 2016 at @UCIrvine. More info coming soon. #2016DML pic.twitter.com/Ffg8sH0jOo — DML2016 (@dmlconference) …
Last night, I participated in a spectacular night tidepooling activity at Pillar Point, along with a couple of dozen other lucky folks. Pillar Point is a reef just 40 minutes south of San Francisco, most well known as the home of the famous Maverick’s Surf Contest. The California Academy of Sciences has been documenting the …
I'm excited to share the news that the Cal Academy's award-winning planetarium show "Habitat Earth" is now available free-of-charge for educators to use in their classrooms. This 25-minute planetarium dome show has been re-mastered as an HD video that can be downloaded and shown to students as part of their lessons on biodiversity, food systems, …
So this interchange happened during my Techteens program yesterday. They were researching whether it is possible for the human mind to be uploaded to a computer. Alex: Guys, GUYS, telekinenis isn't real, right? Ori: Sure it's real, I'll show you. Alex: Let's see it. Ori: I'm going to use MY MIND to move my backpack… My MIND sends signals …
Neil Degrasse Tyson is one of America's best known and most loved scientists, for very good reasons. I'm always blown away at what a great science communicator he is. Here's Degrasse Typson just killing his appearance on the popular NPR quiz show "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me". Listen to it, and then scroll down for the …
San Francisco is a world-class city in so many ways, including our over-abundance of amazing cultural institutions. We have not one, but TWO amazing science museums — the California Academy of Sciences and the Exploratorium. And we have a rich variety of art museums, including the DeYoung, the Legion of Honor, the Asian Art Museum, and …
Over the weekend, I powered through Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, a quirky mixture of true life space adventures and a self-help book. Like a lot of people, I fell in love with the mustachioed Canuck from his many wonderful videos from the International Space Station, during his 144 …
For the next few days, I am in lovely Montreal, Canada for the annual conference of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC). ASTC is basically the annual geek-fest for science museum professionals. This is my fourth ASTC, and for once I am attending simply as a participant. In past years, I’ve presented, …
As I wrote about previously, MacArthur Foundation is winding down its support for the “digital media and learning” portfolio (I.e., digital learning, as we know it) into a new nonprofit. Now we know what it's called: Collective Shift. Main points from their press release: Collective Shift has received $25 million dollars in seed money from …