An all-new, revamped MAD-learn is here! We officially unveiled our new platform – which incorporates all six steps of the design thinking process – on March 23, 2023, along with some of our global partners including Teq, National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP), and CSforAll. Our celebration featured educators from across the country and showcased our uniquely crafted…
Stay Golden: MAD-students win GOLD for Georgia App Design Challenge
Students are creating #appsthatmatter using MAD-learn and we have the receipts. We are extremely proud of the student team at Barber Middle School in Cobb County who were the GOLD WINNERS of the 2023 Georgia Department of Education (GADOE) CS4GA App and Design Challenge! Their app, Unify, was lauded for community advocacy, overall design, and innovative thinking. The Unify team…
MAD-news for May: At the US Capitol with student app developers
Hi Guest, You did it (almost there)! You made it through another amazing, eventful, inspiring, tiring, but soul-enriching school year. And your students wouldn’t be who they are or where they are without you. Thank you for your persistence and perseverance. We hope you have a wonderful summer break and maybe, just maybe, we get to see you at a…
AI: A View from Within
Just for fun (and a bit of professional curiosity), I decided to play around with ChatGPT’s Artificial Intelligence (AI). With perhaps a subconscious desire to see if I could short-circuit the system, I entered the following request: …importing the result to a MAD-learn HCJ Builder template, I got this: Broken image links aside, it didn’t do a bad job. It…
Why MAD-learn Uses Reverse Engineering to Teach Coding
Reverse engineering is the process of taking apart a product or system to better understand how it works. In the context of software development, reverse engineering can be used to learn how an application was built and to gain insight into its inner workings. In this article, we’ll explore how reverse engineering can be used to learn HTML, CSS, and…
Why Mobile App Development is Relevant for YOUR Classroom
Students are faced with challenges far greater than their adult counterparts have ever known. Often interrelated factors such as the pandemic, teacher flight, changing family dynamics, a rise in social issues, and more have made it increasingly difficult to keep students focused and motivated. How can these threats to our children’s livelihood be addressed and overcome? What common thread could…
MAD-learn Goes to the Capitol: A Personal Essay
Looking through photos on my phone, I realized I have approximately 10 selfies—from various angles—in front of the U.S. Capitol. It wasn’t for vanity or social media. In mid-April, MAD-learn was honored to participate in the #HouseOfCode Inspiration Fair, one of several events for winners of The Congressional App Challenge at the U.S. Capitol. To say it was a career…
MAD-learn named EDTECH AWARDS Leadership Finalist 2023!
Congrats to edtech’s best and brightest innovators, leaders, and trendsetters! It is an absolute honor for MAD-learn to have been recognized by EdTech Digest as a finalist in THE EDTECH LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2023 category as finalists and winners for The EdTech Awards 2023 were recently announced to a worldwide audience of educators, technologists, students, parents, and policymakers interested in building a better future for…
MAD-news for April: “Will you sign my app?” – Chamblee HS student
Hi Guest, I was invited to speak to Mr. Thompson’s Introduction to Digital Technology classes at Chamblee HS in DeKalb County, GA. He wanted me to share my story of being a teacher and then starting a tech company and what that journey was like with his students. He thought it would be good for his students to meet a…
MAD-news for March: Register for The Unveiling event: March 23
Hi Guest, It’s happening! The official Unveiling Event is here and we would love nothing more than for you to join us at the virtual party to check out and celebrate the brand new MAD-learn with some of our phenomenal national partners and special guest speakers. They will be sharing more about their work, latest updates, and how you can…