Better Brainstorming

High school engineering teacher Joe Malchar helps Pius and Sadhan review the guidelines for effective brainstorming. Joe talks about some common misconceptions and challenges related to brainstorming and how he uses it in his classroom. We have a live brainstorming session to come up with exciting and new engineering lessons for students in K-12. 

Mentioned in this episode: 

● Our open brainstorm session: https://padlet.com/pioslabs/24onnj6e8r6n 

● Our original brainstorm session (closed, organized): https://padlet.com/pioslabs/lheqof5cw4 

● Padlet mind-map tool: https://www.padlet.com 

● Gliffy mind-map tool: https://www.gliffy.com Remember that the podcast will be at the SXSW Conference and Festival in March, 2017! Pius and Rachel from the podcast will be running workshops for educators and professional engineers: https://www.sxsw.com/ and http://sxswedu.com/ 

Our opening music comes from "School Zone (radio edit)" by The Honorable Sleaze, who’s also on Soundcloud. Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor. Both are used under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com