Digital Civics: How IEA Spyglass Students are Advocating for Positive Change
By Nicole Endacott, Senior Program Coordinator How we use technology is more important than ever these days – our education, advocacy, work and social lives are primarily limited to online […]
Reflections on Teaching This Summer: Slowing Down and Observing Carefully
By Lucy Blagg Earlier this year, I read a book called Slow Looking by Shari Tishman. Tishman is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education whose research “focuses […]
A Spyglass Sit-In
By Jennifer de la Haye This week, I had an opportunity to observe a session of Spyglass, IEA’s new distance learning program that brings professionals and students together via […]
Virtual Learning Lab: Creative Problem Solving 1, Unusual Patterns
Creative Problem Solving It seems that everyone today talks about creative problem-solving. Curriculum guides list problem-solving skills as key objectives at all levels, and professional organizations recommend that creative problem […]
Enhance your summer experience with engaging virtual programs from the Institute for Educational Advancement
By Ashley Prior, Marketing and Communications Coordinator This summer’s ever-changing landscape provides children and youth of all ages an opportunity to participate in fun, challenging learning through IEA’s virtual programs. […]
Virtual Learning Lab: Special Relativity, Part 2: Math Time!
Physics seems to work well on human scales, but why does classical physics seem to break at the largest and smallest ones? This series of videos, presented by Umar Ahmed […]
Virtual Learning Lab: Marine Mammals
What is a marine mammal, and how are they specially adapted to their life living in the ocean? This video will discuss how animals are designated as marine mammals, as […]