Hola! I am a 20-something-year-old Michigander with an insatiable passion for education, technology and the environment. I've had a variety of classroom experiences, including teaching English in Ecuador. Currently I work for MS&L Digital where I help run General Motors' Education site.
A couple years back I ventured to Ecuador to absorb the sites and sounds of South America as a volunteer teacher at a local university. While I will never forget staying up late at night to watch the local volcano erupt or grabbing a pan de chocolate on my way home from school each afternoon, I will also find it hard to forget the struggles of living in a place that lacked the technology I’ve grown so accustomed to as a digital native.
Upon my return to the States two years ago, the only prerequisite to my future career path was one that involved technology. I didn’t care who it was with, what I was doing, as long as it involved something innovative and technologically advanced. To make a long story short, I ended up where I am now, working at MS&L helping General Motors run its education website where I’ve been able to combine my passions for technology, education and children. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to New Jersey to accept an award that GM won for its work with none other than…Teach Green!
The New Jersey Technology Education Association (NJTEA) presented the award to GM Thursday night at an award ceremony with educators from all over New Jersey. Each year, the organization awards an individual, institution and/or government official who “made a notable impact through their virtuous support for students and/or educators in technology education…and have a proven track record of advocating the benefits of technological literacy for all students in New Jersey schools.” This year GM won the Impact Award for its work with Teach Green! Read the rest of this entry »
For the past couple of months we’ve been working hard on a project that uses the exciting technology and images of Google Earth to show how energy is used and produced all over the world. We call it the GM Google Earth Project.
More than 1,100 educators around the world are doing it.
On Earth Day, April 22, 2010, they are going paperless. These teachers have pledged that they will not make copies, hand out worksheets, give tests–at least, tests produced on paper–or do anything else that requires paper. Read the rest of this entry »
And here we are, back in Michigan. 500 hours of planning, 30 hours of manning a booth, 3,500 recycled newspaper pencils and 350 bamboo USB drives later, NSTA’s 2010 national conference is officially over.
As one who works behind the screen most of the time, it was a really really awesome experience for me to get to meet the teachers on the other side of the screen and be able to give away resources that they could take back to their classrooms. Read the rest of this entry »
Anyone out there heading to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) 2010 National Conference in Philadelphia? General Motors will be there! Come check us out at booth 2155 from March 18-20. We’ll be on site with all sorts of goodies that teachers can take back to their classrooms. And we’re also bringing along the Chevy Volt chassis! Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to everyone who [virtually] attended the live Webcast streamed from the Harvard-Westlake School assembly with the Chevrolet Volt. Dozens of middle school classrooms from around the country tuned in to learn about the science behind some of the advanced technologies driving the future of transportation like electric vehicles.
It’s time to get your students charged up about the electrification of the automobile! And on Monday, Nov. 30, Weekly Reader and Chevrolet will provide schools across the U.S. with an excellent opportunity.
The electrification of the automotive industry is taking shape and you may have a future award-winning engineer sitting in one of your classrooms! We want to invite you and your math and science students to come touch, see and learn about the growing electric vehicle industry at a free public event on Wednesday, October 21, from 1 to 3 p.m. in Detroit, Michigan.
Welcome back! Hope everyone had a great summer. We’re back and ready for some more green action. We have a couple of old faces from last school year, and a couple of new ones, too. If you have a green classroom story you want to share with teachers around the world, feel free to e-mail us at educationeditor@gmblogs.com, and we may even feature it on Teach Green. Read the rest of this entry »
