User Generated Education

Skinny and Fatty When I was a young kid about 8 years old, I remember watching a children’s short Japanese film called Skinny and Fatty.

I like using technology in authentic ways . . . to connect students as opposed to separating them by having them work on individual on their own devices.

That book for me was Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.

By creating podcasts, students practice receptive and productive skills.

I heard about Rosebud AI, a new AI-driven game making platform, via social media during Spring, 2024.

A group of gifted students, who I have in my classroom for several years, have been building sustainable cities for a number of years as part of their SDGs education, see: Building a Sustainable City https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2022/04/22…

This is my 3rd time doing this project with my gifted learners, grades 4th through 6th.

I have a strong emphasis with a few groups of my gifted students in integrating physical computing into my instructional activities.

I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing refers to the use of tangible, embedded microcontroller-based interactive systems that can sense the world around them and/or control outputs such as lights, displays and motors.

This is an overview of my workshop at FETC (Future of Technology Education Conference).