Month: December 2013
Game-Based Learning Design Workshop
Posted by Laura Gatto on
"The single best opportunity for innovation in education is to gather teachers together in professional development programs that are pedagogy-centered, so that they can hone their teaching techniqu...
Blockly and Turtle Academy: Two New Coding Games Now on GameUp
Posted by SM Bruner on
At BrainPOP, we believe in the importance of developing systems thinking in kids and laying the foundation for computer programming skills. This week, we debuted both Blockly: Maze and Turtle Academy ...
“Read all About it” in our December Newsletter
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Extra! Extra! The December 2013 edition of our newsletter has hit the stands. Get the latest on our holiday offer; the slew of new Tech & Science games on GameUp; the ways we supported CSEdWeek; r...
Speak Up, America! What do You Think About Technology Use for Learning?
Posted by cemignano on
We shared the Speak Up campaign here on the blog back in October, and we want to encourage your participation one last time before the campaign closes on Friday, December 20th.
All across America, di...
Winter Holiday Research Project
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Sharon Gurel is an Instructional Designer, currently an M.A. Candidate in the DMDL program at New York University’s Steinhardt School. She is a mother of 2 girls. Here's what she has to say about her...
Flipping your Classroom with My BrainPOP – Wednesday, December 18 at 4:00 pm ET
Posted by cemignano on
Wednesday, December 18 at 4:00 pm ET
Flipping your Classroom with My BrainPOP
Get an overview of My BrainPOP – the tool we launched this fall to help you track student progress – and see how one tea...
Hour of Code Celebrations Continue with Free BrainPOP Movies and More!
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Here at BrainPOP, we're celebrating Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code in so many ways! First of all, we've created new Computer Science movies and marked them all free for this ent...
Nominate an Educator for NSBA’s “20 to Watch” Program
Posted by cemignano on
NSBA's “20 to Watch” program was established as part of the 20th anniversary celebration for the National School Boards Association’s technology and learning conference in 2006. The program identifie...
Wednesday, December 11, 3:30 pm ET: Tynkerin Around with Code, CSEd Week
Posted by cemignano on
Wednesday, December 11 at 3:30 pm ET
Tynkerin Around: Student Programming and Computer Science Education Week
BrainPOP and Tynker are joining forces to celebrate Computer Science Education Week an...
BrainPOP’s Computer Science Unit is Available Free all Week
Posted by Andrew Gardner on
Just in time for Computer Science Education Week and the Hour of Code, BrainPOP has added a new unit to the technology section: Computer Science! It replaces Computers & Internet, whose topics w...
