Unexpected Gifts: Discovering and Nurturing the Strengths in Every Child

I just spent two days at the annual Illinois Computing Educator’s technology conference in St. Charles and came back with so many new ideas that I’ll be blogging about in the next few weeks. This conference is a great local one for teachers and parents would learn quite a bit, too! It’s important to keep up with all the technology that our children are becoming so competent with manipulating and attending this conference is a great way to keep current: http://www.iceberg.org/page.php?pid=10

The first new technology tool I wanted to share with you is Scratch, a software tool from MIT and released last spring. Michael Resnick, from MIT, gave the IL-TCE conference attendees a look at the potential for this software to develop creativity in children. It’s an awesome tool that you’ll want to check out: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/resnick-scratch.html

I also learned more about social networking and it’s implication for teachers and parents – more about that in my next post.

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