Praise effort
HBR says, praise effort over ability to help smart kids cope with the tough times. http://t.co/Dja93KAF — JJ Rohrer (@ascendlyJJ) December 6, 2011
How are those charter schools doing?
@Time summary of Charter School Review. Some are awesome, some atrocious, but the terrible ones are seldom shut down. http://t.co/Le8hS9c5 — JJ Rohrer (@ascendlyJJ) December 2, 2011
LEGO® Safety: How not to choke, break a tooth, lose an eye, or throw out your back
I’m injured. I’m lying on the couch, trying not to move. Cursing the day they invented the LEGO® brick. Well, actually, I’m cursing my stupidity in lifting 9,000 LEGO® bricks with my back, instead of my legs. So, other than lifting too many of them, can LEGO® bricks really hurt anyone? Here is a list …
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How it’s done in Finaland
Just finished watching The Finland Phenomenon. Cool documentary on why Finland is at the top. Sadly, not on Netflix. http://t.co/5QnE0LRt — JJ Rohrer (@ascendlyJJ) October 21, 2011
Distance Learning
RT @lisa_rohrer: The University of Wherever: http://t.co/yVR3yt1E Higher Ed disruption. Can this apply to after school programs? I hope so — JJ Rohrer (@ascendlyJJ) October 4, 2011
Future of Technology & Education
In case you haven't seen the 2011 Horizon Report on emerging technology and education: http://t.co/XMFtMwx Spans clouds to analytics. — JJ Rohrer (@ascendlyJJ) September 7, 2011
Fun LEGO Photo
Did you ever feel like this? It is hard to be plastic, and unloved. #Lego http://t.co/Lou7qmz — JJ Rohrer (@ascendlyJJ) August 6, 2011
Our New Tagline
After rebranding the company as Ascendly, which is a nice, but very generic name, the need for a tagline become clear. A good tagline can, in about second, tell someone new to the company just about everything they need to know about the firm. It can answer: What does the firm do? Why does the …
LEGO® Poem: LEGOS in My Life
I wrote this LEGO® poem for my son’s (2nd grade) and his classes’s poem cafe and open mic event. Sort of a parent-child poetry jam. I really love LEGOs. I love them a lot. I love them more than my big sister, Dot. I love them more than the sun shines in the sky. I …
Everybody Loves Robots has renamed itself Ascendly
After some gnashing of teeth, I’ve rebranded Everybody Loves Robots to Ascendly. I hope you like the new name. This endeavor started by focusing on making robots, but quickly expending to teaching the basic engineering process and, eventually, other STEM topics, too. As such, I wanted a more generic name and more more international-friendly name. …
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