Webinar Alert: Play Seriously II MIT Education Arcade

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Wednesday, April 11 4:30PM ET: Play Seriously II: The MIT Education Arcade We welcome the MIT Education Arcade back for another webinar to extend our discussion on the objectives of educational ga...
ISTE Board

ISTE Board Elections

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Get Your Vote On! It’s election time at ISTE! Voting is open for all ISTE members for ISTE Board of Directors. BrainPOP’s very own Vice President of 21st Century Learning is a current ISTE board me...
20 to Watch

We’re Watching: NSBA Announces 3 BrainPOP Educators as Recipients of the 20 to Watch Award!

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The National School Boards Association's (NSBA) has named its 20 to Watch honors for 2011-2012. These education leaders from across the country are being recognized for promoting the incorporation of ...
STEM Game Challenge

National STEM Video Game Challenge Extension

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Great news!  The National STEM Video Game Challenge has just announced that they are extending the contest’s deadline to March 23rd.  As part of the Digital Promise Initiative, the Challenge aims to i...

Contest: Mobile Learning

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The growing interest in mobile learning has BrainPOP on the go! Have you been using the BrainPOP mobile app with your students? Whether it’s on a field trip or in the classroom, we want to hear about ...
robotics

Visiting a Robotics Team in Action

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Think back to your own elementary school days. Could you have designed an innovative solution that preserved food and reduced contamination? How about a robot that conquered a set of pre-determined mi...

STEM Video Game Challenge

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As a proud sponsor of the STEM video game challenge, BrainPOP will be participating in PBS kids' twitter party this Thursday night. RSVP to join the party and chat about the learning theories behind g...
BrainPOP educator

Teacher, Game Designer and BrainPOP Educator, Adam Coccari

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This Wednesday at 6:30 PM ET, we welcome back to our webinar series BrainPOP educator extrodinaire Adam Coccari.  Not only is Adam working with his students to prepare games for the National STEM chal...

Winter 2012 Classroom Improvement Technology Grant

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BrianPOP is pleased to partner with Samsung and the Turning Foundation to sponsor the Classroom Improvement Technology Grant. The purpose of this grant is to help educators develop 21st century cl...

Boss Levels at Quest to Learn

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I had the good fortune of being invited to judge the Rube Goldberg Machines Challenge at the amazing and innovative Quest to Learn School. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the term, a “Rube...