by Andrew Mink | Jul 19, 2015 | digital documentaries, geospatial, teacher makers, visualization
The caption to the student-drawn picture above points to the high level of engagement that one of Julie Stavitski’s sixth grade students feel with historical content when it is visualized and accessible through interactive mapping technology. Big data...
by Andrew Mink | Jul 6, 2015 | Liquid Network
Each month, Mink’ED will highlight the work of several education-based small businesses and consultancies that draw from the unbounded creativity and expertise of classroom educators. In some cases, these business ventures represent a new career path for the founding...
by Andrew Mink | Mar 24, 2015 | character education, digital culture, digital documentaries
I often used that quote to frame circle reflections when I worked with 14 year old students in Orange County, Virginia. Whether my students were grappling with primary source documents and research, or a figure eight knot and climbing harness, or the shifting social...
by Andrew Mink | Jan 27, 2015 | teacher leadership
Teachers are Superheroes. Teachers bend wills, see through obstacles, multi-task at warp speed. Teachers read minds, hover in suspended (dis)belief, and right wrongs. Mink’ED calls upon these Teacher Superheros to field-research, contribute, author, review, and...