Mia and the Houston Arboretum Bench 

Can you find the bench?  Hints found on the search video. Tweet @TedE4CS if you do please and thank you! Computing + Conservation = “R” – I provide seeds, but gardeners needed to plant and nurture them.  Dance Seeds can be your start on this adventure.  I will yell Alleluia when Houston has technical direction for vaccine distribuion like #YoCanto. 

Could you write a paper about the
History of our Arboretum for a SEFH contest?

Or a “Sand County Almanac” for the Arboretum?

Would you like to meet me on our bench and talk about our Houston Climate Action Plan?

• Do we have the bandwidth?  Do we have leaders with followers? Is the World Flat?
• My New Year’s Resolution is to donate my educational history to the Arboretum.

TRUST AND TRUTH - NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE:The Seeds - Staying Alive Greenfields - Walk and Talk with me to fight dementia - STORIES FROM CBS SUNDAY MORNING JAN 3, 2020

The Future we’re building — and Boring – Is this part of your solution mindset? 

We want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of our hearts!

We have had fun this year bella-ing. Combining that with blogging and gardening, 2020 has been kind to us. Enjoy more of our 2020 stories at build-a-brain.com and buildagarden.edublogs.org.

Andy who turned 50 this year and Tony who joined the party from London are teachers. Amy started a magazine -> I remember when she was in high school how she edited my research papers.

Teaching and writing is our family and we hope yours is blessed too in 2021.

HUGS FROM MAX AND KAREN :))

And yes, sent a printed letter to my friends who still use snail mail.

Have you danced today?  … a codebytes
Learn how to create your Dance Party robots to join you here.

Do you have a partner?
Learn about how to build partners from the TxGCP Summit 12/4/2020. You can build this with Tonya in Houston, one of our NCWIT Aspirations.org coordinators.

Have you learned how you can make the world better in Houston?

• https://www.hereinhouston.org/
• https://cechouston.org/
• Found someething to do from the Houston Climate Action Plan
• Join the Houston maker action team
• Integrated ethical AI in your classroom to create change
• Listened to the experts to scale your well-being through tech
• Bee an advocate for CS Education – Study the data! Bee a story teller! Hadi Partovi at the ISTE2020 CS/CT Playground with Shaina Glass, Houston CSTA President:

I have shared solutions many times.  Perhaps listening would help.

Please spend the majority of your time taking action not talking about the problem.  Education is the only solution. My Bella with behavior problems says, I am sorry, I just didn’t understand what I needed to do. Please teach me the right thing to solve our problem.

I am working on listening to the impact of of diet. Not only in my Bella, but all.

• Power Foods – do you eat them, do parents and schools provide them? What are we teaching?
• Exercise Dance – the start of this post – add walking and talking to every school week!

This was a question I asked during one the ISTE 2020 Virtual Conference. Do I remember which session? No, I just remember asking the question and not getting an answer. I have 6 months to go back and learn more.  The question is now on taking the time, one of our limited resources I taught about in Technology Systems at Westside HS. – Best course ever!!

I remember going to the Windsor Castle with my now high school grandson when he was in elementary school. Fastinating tour where I met the “Questionnaire” person with a funny hat on. I thought, we need that in every lunch room so kids could have conversations.

• Discover that “Together is Better” … What will be the COVID question? What is your little book of inspiration? Can you smell IT?
• Can a little bit of math keep a secret?  … Permanent Record C24 Encrypt
• Start with a question: What problem would  you like to solve? Does computing spark your interest?
• Learn about AI – Should there be AI for All teachers?

What skills do you think your future employers want?

Are your teachers building these skills in your classroom?

These questions were inspired by an ISTE2020 presentation:

… As a Grandmother … as a friend.

Mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates,
you never know what you’re gonna get.

• Talking Circles … “You are the roots of change … so … Just do it” and say I did It!
• Bench Party – an action maker plan.
• E.O. Wilson
• Build a Dinosaur from a Chicken
• Travel as a Political Act
• Preservation
• Commitment
• Water – “A Camera can extract the light and turn a negative into a positive.”

Life is Actions Makers ... Those who take an idea and make it better!!

Life is going down roads your mind takes you .... writing songs that tell your story. Knowing when to let it be.

• •  “Even when women were invisible, doesn’t mean they were not there.” C7 Broad Band – The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
  • Was looking up correct spelling of c-est la vie and this picture connected to a story appeared.And one of my values took over my time … curiosity.

Tiny World – Savannah … What is your unique story?
Are you an elephant shrew or a mongoose?

Yesterday

Today

If I don’t do it today, it won’t happen tomorrow.
  A 100 tiny things I need to do but instead posting on my blog.

What is beauty? I paint with light Pierre Soulages ... Passing best along ... Pure Art ... Just Laugh -> Comics ... The New Normal ...

CBS Sunday’s Moment of Natures ended with a BEACH and BUTTERFLIES … Oh My.

Tomorrow

1. Create a butterfly garden in an area I look at every day.
2. Help a neighbor with her gardens who lives in my favorite historical house with diamond windows.
3. Build a team of youth in Sandalwood who want to do a community service project.

Are you Smiling today?

Interesting how trees don’t worry about fences just grow around them.

What have you found in your classroom today?

Arts and Crafts … Design and Engineering …
Activities and Grades … Health and Wealth

572  and  Stories

2002 Warning … it is now 2020.
When will change happen?
When we work together with KINDNESS.
When BEAUTY through CURISOTY is a time priority.

Just Dance …

When we bring computer science and art together.

When we put the passions of a 7 year old together with
daily time in the classroom.
When we put clubs together with school time.

When we build Change Makers.

The 20th century bell ringing schools must go.

And replaced with story telling reinventing the school system.

And replaced with kids asking the questions replacing adult created testing.

And Replaced with respect for different points of view … different core values.

And travel through History –

COMPUTER SCIENCE TRAINING FOR COUNSELORS & ADMINISTRATORS

Computer Science Training for Counselors & Administrators participants will learn about trends and opportunities in computer science, and how your district can open doors to these opportunities for ALL of your students. Recent policy and funding changes in Texas will be discussed as well as resources for supporting your district and teachers to build a robust and diverse CS program. These sessions will help school teams appreciate what computer science is, what new courses involve, and how these count toward graduation and fit with the larger school program.

• ·November 5 from 10:30-11:30am CST
• ·November 10 from 1:00-2:00pm CST
• ·November 13 from 10:00-11:00 am CST
• ·December 3 from noon-1pm CST

Contact:  AMY CARRELL, Director for Outreach
The University of Texas at Austin | TACC | Expanding Pathways in Computing (EPIC) | acarrell@tacc.utexas.edu| 512-577-2901

Resource: ANGELA CLEVELAND, NCWIT Counselors For Computing

• NCWIT.org/project/counselors-computing-c4c
• Digital Resource List

Resource: Tonya Davis, tonya@tealsk12.org, Regional Manager, Houston | DISYS

• Microsoft Philanthropies TEALS Program  Microsoft.com/TEALS
• NCWIT Houston Aspirations.org Outreach/Internship Coordinator

Kindness ... Beauty ... Curiosity

All this media hype has gotten me paranoid. Took a photos as the postman drove off with our ballots. Getting in my car to drive to the post office is wasting my time and adding C02 to the environment. And my paranoid continues to tracking to see if arrived and counted . All my photos today are a story of trust. Stories I want to share through a conversation.

Learning from different points of view and different worlds. That is what makes life interesting. And builds the data we need to build trust. I didn’t know I liked Mariah Carey until I watched her special on CBS Sunday Morning and started listening to the story of her life. She just talked about her video Fantasy in her book “The Meaning of Marish Carey” , so I had to be in the moment and watch it.

C + C = R  -> It is our future

What do you think? What story would you write about it’s meaning?