Virtual Learning Lab – Institute for Educational Advancement Connecting bright minds; nurturing intellectual and personal growth Fri, 10 May 2024 23:31:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ieafavicon-e1711393443795-150x150.png Virtual Learning Lab – Institute for Educational Advancement 32 32 Top 10 Blog Posts of 2020 /blog-top-10-blog-posts-of-2020/ /blog-top-10-blog-posts-of-2020/#respond Sat, 09 Jan 2021 11:08:43 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-top-10-blog-posts-of-2020/ The year 2020 is in the books! Thanks to all of our blog visitors who have read articles, commented and shared. We hope to continue providing valuable insights, closer looks at our community, and fun content throughout the coming 12 months. In case you missed something, here are the top 10 most popular posts from last year:

 

The announcement of new Caroline D. Bradley scholars is always an exciting time in the community. Take a trip back to September when the Class of 2025 was first announced.

The first iteration of our Virtual Learning Lab is still one of our most popular. Join our very own Nicole Endacott as she dives into the basics of Mendelian Genetics, including dominant and recessive alleles, genotypes and phenotypes and Mendel鈥檚 pea plant experiments.

J. Ruhl is the parent of a 2014 Caroline D. Bradley scholar. In this article, she gives her helpful perspective to help CDB applicants get a better understanding of the landscape.

Mathematics and poetry tie into each other nicely in this Virtual Learning Lab by Cassidy Kao.  This video introduces Fibonacci Number and Sequence and two types of poems, the 鈥淔ib鈥 and 鈥淐reate Your Own Pattern鈥 poems. 

Umar Ahmed Badami, CDB Scholar, as he helps newcomers understand physics on the scale of atoms and galaxies. Discuss Einstein’s special relativity and some of its interesting consequences.

Back in June, 优蜜视频 President Elizabeth Jones outlined our organizations commitment to social justice and equality in the aftermath of the latest example of injustice against the Black community.

In a year full of intense global events, it is only natural for intense emotions to arise. Here, we outline some resources and concepts to help families better manage them.

Learning about sea creatures is fun and easy to do at home with our Virtual Learning Lab on marine mammals. Better understand the sea otters, walruses and porpoises of the world.

What is probability? How is it applicable to our daily lives? In this video, 2023 Caroline D. Bradley Scholar Arul Kolla discusses probability and its mathematical and practical applications.

Early in the year, COVID-19 changed the way our society operated on a daily basis. The crisis continues to this day, and much of the insights provided by our own Jennifer De La Haye still ring true.

 

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]]> /blog-top-10-blog-posts-of-2020/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Creative Problem Solving III – Working Backwards /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-iii-working-backwards/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-iii-working-backwards/#respond Thu, 13 Aug 2020 03:03:11 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-iii-working-backwards/ Creative Problem Solving III – Working Backwards

In this video, 2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla continues the series of videos about creative problem solving by talking about working backward. Sometimes, we’re given the end state of a series of actions and are asked to find the initial state. How do we recognize these types of problems? And how do we solve them? In this third video, we see how to identify these types of problems and even more tips on how to approach creative problem-solving questions in general.

Creative Problem Solving Series

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 solving becomes the focus of school mathematics. Many people believe that the ability to solve problems develops automatically from mastery of computational skills. This is not necessarily true; problem-solving is itself a skill. A problem is more challenging than a typical exercise because the route to the solution is often not known beforehand, and requires some level of creativity.

]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-iii-working-backwards/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Japanese History, Lecture 1, Early and Feudal Japan /blog-virtual-learning-lab-japanese-history-lecture-1-early-and-feudal-japan/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-japanese-history-lecture-1-early-and-feudal-japan/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:17:56 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-japanese-history-lecture-1-early-and-feudal-japan/ This series of videos, presented by Umar Ahmed Badami (CDB 2021 and CEO of Brilliants, a tutoring organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities) will discuss the history and cultural evolution of Japan, from ancient times through the present. In Lesson 1, we鈥檒l discuss the geography of Japan, its place in human evolution, and the origins of Japanese religion, art, and the samurai!

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]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-japanese-history-lecture-1-early-and-feudal-japan/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Creative Problem Solving II – Changing Your Point of View /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-ii-changing-your-point-of-view/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-ii-changing-your-point-of-view/#respond Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:27:58 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-ii-changing-your-point-of-view/ Creative Problem Solving II – Changing Your Point of View

In this video, 2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla continues the series of videos about creative problem solving by talking about changing your point of view. In many problems, we often get stuck after trying for a long time. How do we get “unstuck”? And how do we change our point of view and attack the question from a different angle? In this video, we see more tips on creative problem solving in general and how to find new ways to look at a problem.

Creative Problem Solving Series听

It seems that everyone today talks about creative problem solving. Curriculum guides list problem solving skills as key objectives at all levels, and professional organisations recommend that creative problem solving becomes the focus of school mathematics. Many people believe that the ability to solve problems develops automatically from mastery of computational skills. This is not necessarily true; problem solving is itself a skill. A problem is more challenging than a typical exercise because the route to the solution is often not known beforehand, and requires some level of creativity.

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]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-ii-changing-your-point-of-view/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Mathematical Poetry – Topology /blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-topology/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-topology/#respond Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:17:36 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-topology/ Mathematical Poetry – Topology

This is the third part of a series of new poetry workshops, pairing up math and poetry. In this video, Cassidy Kao will introduce the basic concept of Topology, teach students to write a “three-line transforming poem” and create their own Mobius Strips.

This workshop is recommended for 1st to 6th graders.

Required Materials: Paper, markers or color pencils, scissors, and tape.

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]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-topology/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Creative Problem Solving 1, Unusual Patterns /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:27:46 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-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 solving becomes the focus of school mathematics. Many people believe that the ability to solve problems develops automatically from mastery of computational skills. This is not necessarily true; problem-solving is itself a skill. A problem is more challenging than a typical exercise because the route to the solution is often not known beforehand, and requires some level of creativity.

Creative Problem Solving I – Unusual Patterns

In this video, 2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla kicks off a series of videos centered around creative problem solving by talking about 鈥渦nusual patterns鈥 鈥 when we see patterns that go beyond traditional skip-counting, how do we approach them? In this video, we see a variety of techniques that both help solve these problems and more general ideas for the topic of creative problem-solving.

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]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-creative-problem-solving-1-unusual-patterns/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Mathematical Poetry – Fractals by Cassidy Kao /blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-fractals-by-cassidy-kao/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-fractals-by-cassidy-kao/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2020 05:29:06 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-fractals-by-cassidy-kao/ This is the second part of a series of new poetry workshops, pairing up math and poetry. In this video, Cassidy Kao will introduce basic fractals and teach students to create their own fractal designs and three types of “Fractal poems”.

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This workshop is recommended for 1st to 6th graders.

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Required Materials: Paper and markers or color pencils.

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]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-mathematical-poetry-fractals-by-cassidy-kao/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Special Relativity, Part 2: Math Time! /blog-special-relativity-part-2-math-time/ /blog-special-relativity-part-2-math-time/#respond Fri, 15 May 2020 21:47:57 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-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 Badami (CDB 2021 and CEO of Brilliants, a tutoring organization dedicated to helping underrepresented minorities) will discuss the physics on the scale of atoms and of galaxies.

In Lesson 2, we鈥檒l discuss spacetime diagrams, the derivation of Lorentz transformations, and investigate some cool consequences of using them both together.

Link to Lesson 1:

Link to full Lorentz transformation derivations:

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]]> /blog-special-relativity-part-2-math-time/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Marine Mammals /blog-virtual-learning-lab-marine-mammals/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-marine-mammals/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2020 05:52:36 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-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 well as dive into classification of marine mammals from otters to sea lions and porpoises to whales. The lesson will conclude with some challenge questions and an opportunity to move outside to measure out lengths of different marine mammals. For this activity, you will need a measuring tape and something to mark each position (sidewalk chalk, post-it, etc.).

Speaker: Nicole Endacott, 优蜜视频 Program Coordinator听
Required Materials: Measuring tape and either sidewalk chalk or post-it notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-QjLofyPk&feature=youtu.be” title=”Virtual Learning Lab: Marine Mammals”
]]> /blog-virtual-learning-lab-marine-mammals/feed/ 0 Virtual Learning Lab: Intro to Special Relativity /blog-virtual-learning-lab-intro-to-special-relativity/ /blog-virtual-learning-lab-intro-to-special-relativity/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:31:01 +0000 https://ieadev.wpengine.com/blog-virtual-learning-lab-intro-to-special-relativity/ 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 will discuss the physics on the scale of atoms and galaxies. In this introductory lesson, we鈥檒l discuss reference frames, the fundamentals of Einstein鈥檚 special relativity and some of its interesting consequences.

Speaker: Umar Ahmed Badami, CDB Scholar

Materials Needed: Paper and pen or pencil

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