3D Printing Education Modules for Middle Schools and High Schools

stratasys_logoDo you work in a setting where teachers are asking how to integrate 3D printers into their curriculum in a meaningful way?  We have seen plenty of demo widgets created with these printers, but a recent article from Business Wire tells the story of how Big Lake Middle School and John Paul II Catholic Secondary School have made international news with implementation in their classrooms.

Stratasys is a 3D printing and manufacturing solutions company that has created project-based learning and teaching modules for middle school and high school classrooms. They will be releasing seven new modules by the end of the school year.

“These modules are a great guide for instructors, helping them to integrate 3D printing into their teaching strategy, and they’re also vital to the students, helping empower them to revolutionize their understanding of the design and making process and maximize their potential at such an early stage,” according to Michael Santolupo from John Paul II Catholic Secondary School.

Click here to read more and get a link to 3D printer education modules too!

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Need a product manual?

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50 Irish Sayings

IrishSt. Patrick’s day is just around the corner!  Here are a handful of catchy and insightful Irish sayings to help spread some good luck around! Click here for more.

  • May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint!
  • You must take the little potato with the big potato.
  • May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head. May you be forty years in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead.
  • May the roof above you never fall in, and those gathered beneath it never fall out.
  • May you live to be 100 years, with one extra year to repent.
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New Learning Express content for SAT Prep

Learning Express Library LogoAre you helping students prepare for SATs? Looking for practice tests and test preparation tutorials? These are just a few examples of new content that will be added to LearningExpress Library™ in the first quarter of 2016.

Here are a few highlights, but read the full post to see all updates:

  • Test Prep for the New 2016 SAT Test
  • Sixteen (16) practice tests
  • Five (5) test preparation tutorials will be added to the College Preparation College
  • New Career Center resources
  • New eBooks added: Medical Assistant Flash Review,MCAT®: Power Practice, and new editions of EMT Flash Review, Firefighter Exam, and College Placement Math Success in 20 Minutes a Day.

 

Do you really know the truth? Snopes Field Guide

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Most of us know of the availability of Snopes.com to check on the accuracy of many so-called “stories”. But here is a very valuable resource: Snopes’ Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors.  You will likely be surprised to find out some of the news sources that are fabricating their “reporting”.  Here is a partial list that the field guide mentions:

  • National Report:  This is the most prominent and popular example of false news reporting on the internet. Facebook has tried to establish algorithms to prevent the spreading of this type of vicious false news. In response, sites like National Report now use the domain names of legitimate news outlets such as the Washington Post and USA Today which mirror the National Report‘s content.
  • World News Daily Report: This one often mixes together incorrectly attributed and stolen photographs to spread long-held misinformation.
  • Huzlers: Uses the names of popular brands and restaurants to spread vicious rumors.
  • News Examiner: Gets around Facebook’s new algorithms by combining real news and listed items in with its fabricated news stories.
  • Newswatch28: Pretends its a TV news website.
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