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  Don’t Miss These Sessions at PETE&C In just a few days, the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C), will arrive at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Temporarily on leave from its usual host city of Harrisburg, we’re excited to welcome the conference to our neck of the woods! This statewide event focuses on current … Source: Remake LearningPublished on 2020-02-21By Jackie Johns Make a micro:bot with micro:bit Hello everyone, this week we have three new products, starting … Read More

  Dumpster Dive Returns Dumpster Dive: back and better than ever! It’s been a while since we had a dive, so mark your calendars for Wednesday, February 26th – and maybe set an alarm or two, just to be safe. We recently cleaned out a neglected closet jam-packed full of product and parts and … Source: Sparkfun NewsPublished on 2020-02-18By Hailey Blessing Personalized engagement powered by personalized learning School may be over for the day, but you wouldn’t know by … Read More

  7 Tools to Kickstart Place-Based Learning (And More to Keep It Going) Remake Learning is grounding the start to 2020 in place—place-based education, that is. When learning is framed within the context of place or local community, it comes alive for students. Whether getting their hands dirty during a life-sciences lesson in the park, hearing from a local councilperson when they visit … Source: Remake LearningPublished on 2020-02-14By Jackie Johns A Fresh Delivery of Power for Valentine’s Day Hello … Read More

  A Qwiic Upgrade for a DIY Keyboard A few months before I came to work at SparkFun, I had built my very own split keyboard (in this case a modified Dactyl). The Dactyl is an open source, split ergonomic keyboard originally designed by Matt Adereth. My very own dactyl! The community has many variations … Source: Sparkfun NewsPublished on 2020-02-11By Martin Knobel Noticing student progress, online and off Kelli Epperson leans in to view what’s on the screen of … Read More

  How to Teach A Paper Circuit Workshop Paper circuits are SO much … Source: Renovated LearningPublished on 2020-02-09By Diana Rendina Friday Product Post: New Pro Micro! Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone! We may not have too many products to show you this week but, as you know, that usually means we have something big. This week we are happy to announce a brand new version of our super small, Arduino-capable Pro Micro! We’ve added a handful of … Source: Sparkfun … Read More