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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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MAD-news for February: How to be a Teacherpreneur

Hi Guest, Want to come cook with us? This month we made a southern classic: Mac & Cheese! Four countries, five cities, and a variety of availability of ingredients led to this magical display and culinary delight for the whole team. We really do love our MAD-cook parties! You should do one soon. And if you want to hear about what these…

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New Year, New MAD-learn

It’s the new year and we are off to an amazing start! The MAD-learn team has been working tirelessly over the past year to bring you a new and improved program that delivers a highly intuitive approach to mobile app development for students of all ages and stages. Our one-of-a-kind program now takes students through a step-by-step process of engineering…

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The PD Diaries: GEAR UP Allentown

Over the past 9 years, MAD-learn’s team of veteran educators has been working with educators in various school districts either in-person or virtually or both to ensure that they not only become MAD-masters but also have a phenomenal plan in place for student success year over year. One such series of professional development sessions was in Eastern Pennsylvania, where our…

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