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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The challenge of middle school
This weekend, we had the opportunity to share our concept with a middle school teacher (who also happens to be my cousin). As we spoke to her, we realized that our dream to reach kids from K-12 might be a little harder than we first thought. The problem? How to appeal to the pre-teen. It’s …
Creation Gallery for Spring 2010
We recently finished our first class and I’ve finally gotten around to collecting the most creative and photogenic of the creations! The kids came up with some very interesting objects over the course of the class. Some ideas came from instructions, others were pure inspiration. All of them were cool. Enjoy, JJ [slickr-flickr tag=”2010 spring …
Just Another Lego Club?
When JJ and I first started working on the Capital Robot Club and talking to parents of kids involved, we began to believe we had stumbled upon something special. We live in a nice Northern Virginia suburb of Washington DC and send our first grader to public school in Fairfax County, one of the best …
Just Finished the First Season – Feedback was Good – Getting Ready for Next Five Years.
Last Thursday marked the completion of the first season of The Capital Lego Robot Club. Lisa, my spouse and occasional business partner, and I had tentatively decided to take the after-school-robot concept and expand it to more school districts, but we were also waiting for more formal feedback before emotionally committing ourselves. The feedback was …
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Operating Vision: Bringing social media to after-school education programs
So what is going on with Everybody Does Robots? Other than finishing up our first class (just two more sessions), I’m scheming about how to scale our efforts. I want to bring engineering confidence and competence to the kids of America, starting with the Kindergarteners. Ok – America is big, so how can I spread …
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