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Solar Array at Bjorklunden
This Solargraph was installed on the summer solstice (June, 2024) looking east over the solar array at Lawrence Unviersity’s Bjorklunden in Door County, WI. The Solarcan was harvested before the winter solstice in December.
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Solargraph from the Ravine
This solargraph comes from the ravine near Reid Golf Course in Appleton, WI. Installed in the summer on the summer solstice (June, 2023), the Solarcan was collected near the winter solstice in December. You can see the ghosting from the leaves by the broken, upper rays of the sun. As the leaves fell in the…
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Evaluating the Nutritional Content of Technology
If we want to make lunchtime fun, why not allow students to choose anything they want to eat? Of course we recognize the absurdity in this statement; we have actually taken great strides to ensure that students eat a nutritious lunch. So shouldn’t that same logic also apply to learning? Too often, I hear teachers…
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Technology Futures: Parenting and Teaching
So far this summer the best book that I have read is a short and insightful book by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh: Parenting for Technology Futures, Part I. Every parent, teacher, administrator and school board member should read this book. It is a short and fulfilling read, and is only $2.99 to download the Kindle book….
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EdTech Smog
We recently had the opportunity to talk with Illah Reza Nourbakhsh (author ofRobot Futures) about robots now and in the future. As robots are getting easier and cheaper to make, Illah describes the growing problem of robot smog: We talk a lot about smog in general as kind of a pollution, this haze that is…
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Using Vernier’s LabQuest2 to Enhance a Demo
Last spring, Vernier Software and Technology released the LabQuest2 – a device that collects data from a variety of sensors and has the ability to share this data wirelessly with any device that has a browser. To me, this is a game-changer in science education. I decided to test it out this year while teaching phase…