Tech & Science

Through a combination of LEGO and littleBits, we were able to create a super smart cockroach that reacts to its environment just like a real one would. It is able to navigate tricky spaces and it scurries when it is exposed to light. When it finds a dark place to hide, it lays low and stays put. 

My own Rover - just a few littleBits, cheese packs and off you go...  Done as part of my school's "HowTo" - project work. 

3D print your own car and get it to move with littleBits! Hack, fork, and new bits to customize your own working car! Files are available for download.

5:22 The Daily Show - John Oliver Investigates Gun Control in Australia - Part 1 by Comedy Central 1,829,470 views

Summary:From productivity to email to operating systems to mobile to hardware, David Gewirtz is no longer actively using Microsoft products. He's not a Microsoft hater. The transition just happened organically as he adopted products that better served his needs.

Andrea Brücken's List: Tools

"Activists are pushing schools to teach climate-change "controversy" by issuing textbook ratings of their own."

"NanoDoc is an online game that allows bioengineers and the general public to design new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer. You'll learn about nanomedicine and explore how nanovehicles can cooperate with each other and their environment to kill tumors"

"These students are part of the Children's Innovation Project, an effort for young children to create with technology in new and meaningful ways. The project is now in its fifth year of development at Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5 in the Pittsburgh Public Schools."

"As a writing teacher, when I advocate for more writing and speaking in the STEM subjects, it can cue an eye roll or two. After all, why wouldn't I think that? But here, from the mouth of a mathematical physicist, comes a similar message supporting the need for a more blended pathway through our content areas."

"Let's say you load up a piano. Then, instead of using the computer keyboard buttons to play the piano, you can hook up the MaKey MaKey to something fun, like bananas, and the bananas become your piano keys"

"A man who died in 315 BC in southern Africa is the closest relative yet known to humanity's common female ancestor - mitochondrial Eve"

"If you're serious about innovation, you must learn, as second nature, to convert your ideas into prototypes."

A Six wheel drive (6WD) all terrain vehicle (ATV) that is powered by an Audino chip.

"All the apps and files stored on our devices, such as our iPads, actually weigh something"

"We must reimagine middle school science and math not as a way to prepare students for high school, but as a place where students are inventors, scientists, and mathematicians today." "