Dan Ryder is Directing Design & Innovation at CRCS
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Dan Ryder is Directing Design & Innovation at CRCS
@wickeddecent.bsky.social
Educator, improviser, design thinker in the great state of Maine; Director of Design & Innovation at Community Regional Charter School (free, public, customized, project-based pK-12 edu); co-author of INTENTION: CRITICAL CREATIVITY in the CLASSROOM
Still time to propose sessions for Tabletop Teaching and Learning at #ISTE 25! April 1st due date!

Details here! Bit.ly/iste25tttlpform

#edtech #tcg #edusky #teaching #gamedesign #tabletopgaming #boardgames
March 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
DEADLINE EXTENDED to Apr 1st!

Tabletop Teaching & Learning Playground at #ISTE 2025! Looking for educators integrating game-thinking of ALL SORTS into practice!

Deadline tight? Holler! CC @jacquiegardy.bsky.social bit.ly/iste25tttlpform
#edusky #ttrpg #tabletopgames #edtech #k12edu
March 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Today at 1:30 PM in Hilton Salon K at #SXSWEDU!

From Ideas to Impact! Dive into the awesomeness of visual and physical brainstorming and ideating! With yours truly and the raditude that is @mistykluesner.bsky.social!

#designthinking #projectbasedlearning #edusky #criticalcreativity
March 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My good friends! Attending @sxswedu.com? Join @mistykluesner.bsky.social and yours truly for a brainstorming and ideation extravaganza the likes of which have never before been seen with mortal eyes!

Monday Mar 3 at 1:30 PM in Hilton Salon K!

#SXSWEDU #edusky #SXSW #k12education #designthinking
February 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Designers, educators, enthusiasts! Share your tabletop learning radness at #ISTE this summer! Call for proposals!

@jacquiegardy.bsky.social
and I have put together a playground showcasing role of #tabletopgames #ttrpg in deeper understanding, #SEL, #TESOL and more

FMI: bit.ly/iste25tttlpform
February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Would love @thesecretcabal.bsky.social help spread word that @jacquiegardy.bsky.social and I are curating a playground at #ISTE this summer all about #tabletopgaming #ttrpg

I'm sure loads of educators, designers, publishers are Cabalists and we want their insights!

FMI bit.ly/iste25tttlpf...
February 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hey, Vintage RPG Podcast @johnmcguirerpg.bsky.social @stuhorvath.com!

@jacquiegardy.bsky.social & I are curating a playground at ISTE 25 this summer re: powerful #tabletopgames, card games & #ttrpg play in teaching & learning
Help amplify the call? #maythedice

FMI: bit.ly/iste25tttlpf...
February 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Call for Proposals! ISTE 2025 Tabletop Playground! @jacquiegardy.bsky.social and I are curating a space for educators, game designers & game enthusiasts of #tabletopgaming #ttrpg #gamedesign to showcase game-based thinking

#edtech #iste #edusky #boardgamegeek

FM bit.ly/iste25tttlpf...
February 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I've been facilitating this workshop w/ learners, educators, non-profits, etc for years. Re-aligned to my 5E design phases and figured I'd share.

How might we bring authentic joy using four paper clips and a pair of index cards?

#designthinking #edusky #k12edu

docs.google.com/presentation...
February 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I designed alternative exit tickets

2x2 Understanding & Effort: Learners plot their depth of understanding, degree of skill and assess effort exerted; then add notes for context

Share & remix via #CanvaForEdu

#criticalcreativity #edusky #k12education #edtech

www.canva.com/design/DAGfb...
February 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Sent our CRCS staff into vacation w/ a 5E design process challenge & #projectbasedlearning experience: How might we re-design Pac-Man to reflect challenges learners face in central Maine? Feel free to remix and share.

#designthinking #edusky #criticalcreativity #gamedesign

bit.ly/5epacmancrcs...
February 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Quite line up here for the traditional Friday night panel at EduCon

UDelaware, UPenn, Drexel and Harvard all repped as they discuss the role of community in schools, schools as communities, and school community as ecosystem

#educon #edusky
CC @clehmann.bsky.social @jacquiegardy.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
January 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Visualizing computational thinking via entrepreneurial thinking and deeper thinking.

Created this Canva template to help MS/HS math learners and rocked the bit.ly/In10tion color scheme, too.

Feel free to share widely #criticalcreativity #edusky #mathsky #cs4all

www.canva.com/design/DAGdZ...
January 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thanks friends! Here’s the almost finished poster
January 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Yet's gooooooooooo! #characterdesign I created in @adobelive.bsky.social Illustrator; for a local ski mountain vacation week promo

Trying to grant myself grace to create more and admin less

Also getting more comfortable w/ our tools makes it so much easier to engage learners in them #edusky
January 22, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Going to be totally self serving and toss my book with @jacquiegardy.bsky.social & Josh Alves on to this thread: PANEL by PANEL: a comic book guide to creating comics in the classroom

100% freely available in PDF.
#edusky #makingcomics

americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/res...
January 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let’s goooooo — cough — ahem — sorry — one sec— gooooooooo!

#FETC #edusky @thomascmurray.bsky.social @joesanfelippo.bsky.social #edtech #leadership
January 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Used #Canva today to design a new #criticalcreativity mini-design challenge for understanding like terms in math.

Learners have to design a car lot for their new dealership on the land they inherited from their uncle. Use computational thinking to sort em
#edusky #edtech

bit.ly/liketermscar...
January 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Been working w MS/HS math seminar to better visualize some bedrock computational thinking knowledge and terminology

Worked up this #criticalcreativity activity/formative assessment for learners to interpret emojis as math expressions and vice versa

docs.google.com/presentation...
#edusky #CS4all
January 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Name a show you’re positive no one remembers but you
November 29, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Yancy Butler AND Timothy Van Patten all in one thread?!

Zounds!

Let’s get some Indiana Tron of the Lost Malaysia action going!
November 29, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Getting my Plai on at #NYSCATE w @smilelearning.bsky.social and co!

There be QR codes everywhere!

#edtech
November 24, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Hey #NYSCATE! I keep accidentally turning my kids college fund into efforts to match up three mermaids with two pirates and the big jackpot! Say hey and save me from myself! And come to our session at 11:30 in Cayuga! #criticalcreativity
November 24, 2024 at 3:26 PM