Carl Wieman – PhET Interactive Simulations
Carl Wieman – Creator, Senior Advisor PhET Interactive Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/ PhET Interactive Simulations is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts guided simulations. The venture mainly provides free STEM simulations and worksheets to go along with them for learners and educators. Over time, it has also become a platform for educators to […]
Market Projections: MIT Technology Review – ChatGPT and Education
ChatGPT, being so new, requires predictions to be made about how the tool will change industries and fields as a whole. This MIT review project that ChatGPT will become integrated into schools and will partner up with educational resources to provide multi-modal support. Heaven argues that based on current trends with AI, educators will need […]
Founders Parade: Josh Wardle, founder of Wordle
Wordle is a word puzzle game where the user must determine a 5-letter word based on clues from previous guesses. They have 6 chances to determine the correct word in order to be successful. Josh Wardle was working at Reddit as an artist and product manager when he first came up with the idea for […]
Founders Parade: Ben Stewart, creator of Blooket
Kahoot and Quizlet Live are both examples of tools that teachers use to spice up lessons through gamification. Most students love these as they can break up a lengthy or monotonous lesson! Let’s face it, our students’ attention spans can be extremely challenging to keep during the school day. Young entrepreneur Ben Stewart identified an […]