BizzyB Blog
Why “Soft Skills” is More Accurate than “Life”, “Essential” or “Professional” Skills
"Soft Skills," the leading term in education for creativity, emotional intelligence and habits of mind skills, has been under attack over the past couple of years by those wishing to replace the word "Soft" with "Life", "Essential" or "Professional." The rational is...
Tech-Tonic Shifts: How to Transform Education With Information Technology
At the Fall, 2019 STEM Ecosystems Convening in Cleveland, OH, 4 breakouts in Policy, Learning Management Systems, STEM, Soft Skills & SEL Assessments, and Workforce Development explored how information technology is driving educational trends, tools practices and...
3 Reasons Why Employers Demand & Schools Teach Whole-Child STEM + Soft Skills
Today, education as the trainer of tomorrow's workers reflects employer demands of delivering workforce candidates that are trained in "Whole-Child" style, i.e., having both foundational STEM content mastery and Soft Skills including creativity and emotional...
Teachers Trained on BizzyB at iTeach Conference, Honolulu, HI
168 Hawai’i Department of Education teachers trained on BizzyB at the iTeach Conference on June 13, 2019 Honolulu Convention Center, Hawai’i. At the session, teachers were invited to sign up as student users with a goal of doing a simple project-based learning...
Steve Sue Joins STEM Ecosystems EAC
I recently joined the Executive Advisory Committee ("EAC") of STEM Ecosystems, a committee to shape the national collaborative of regional education ecosystems specializing in STEM-based education and workforce development pipelines. This is a great opportunity to be...
5 Themes of Innovation Tested at STEM Ecosystems, Spring Convening 2019, NOLA
Project Lemon Tree, an ecology-agriculture-innovation outdoor classroom curriculum presented as a BizzyB 5 Themes of Innovation project-based learning model, was tested with educators at the STEM Ecosystem Spring Convening, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Inventing...
BizzyB White Labeled for MIT LaunchX Program
LaunchX, the MIT high school feeder program reports that over 6,000 students in 26 countries along with over 2,000 mentors enjoyed creating concepts through the LaunchX white label version of BizzyB. Through the process, the BizzyB team worked closely with the LaunchX...
STEM Versus STEAM: Funding & Mechanism Definitions
BizzyB and Bizgenics Foundation were excited to represent the Hawai’i Loa STEM Ecosystems Cabinet (one of 84 regional STEM Ecosystems from across the United States and world beyond) at the bi-annual STEM Ecosystems Fall Convening in Newport Beach, CA. STEM Ecosystems...
Meet the BizzyB Dev Team: Can Nerds Dance?
BizzyB is built by two software development teams: one in Honolulu, Hawai’i and the other in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Honolulu unit specializes in front end design including research, use cases, technical specifications and user interface design. The Dhaka unit...
How to Create Invention, Innovation & Entrepreneurial-Based Learning Products
In our search to create new paradigms in invention, innovation and entrepreneurial learning, we've learned how to quickly create products to test our education theories. A couple paths we've had great success in rapid product development are card games and...
BizzyB at HICSS 2018 Conference, Presented by High School Student Chloe Loughridge
BizzyB theory was presented at the 2018 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). HICSS is a leading conference for information systems and Information technology academics and professionals. HICSS sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A...
BizzyB Powered by Hoag Foundation
We're taking a timeout to thank BizzyB's primary funder, The Larry & Helen Hoag Foundation of Irvine California for providing the resources to make BizzyB a reality. We also must thank Doug Freeman of First Foundation Bank for his vision in hooking us up. About...
How to Learn About Education: Just A.S.K.
Our goal at BizzyB is to connect things we know (innovation and entrepreneurship) with things we didn't know as much about (learning and education). So we used the ASK method that has ended up as an annual pilgrimage to Cambridge, MA: Analyze We began with online...
A New Way to Teach Youth Creativity & Leadership Skills
BizzyB was recently featured in Mike Meyer's Honolulu Star-Advertiser “Tech View” column on May 9, 2017. Download 323K PDF » Mike demonstrated an amazing ability to understand a new paradigm in a complex industry, so we take out hats off to him. Some excerpts:...
School Principals Offer Positive Feedback & Interest in BizzyB
During a recent presentation to the Kaimuki-McKinley-Roosevelt Complex Area District of the Hawaii Department of Education, sponsored by Complex Area Superintendent Ruth Silberstein, principals provided feedback and sentiments on the BizzyB pilot program. This...
BizzyB.com Ready for Action!
We’re buzzing with excitement as we launch BizzyB.com, our cloud-based youth entrepreneurship platform.Yes, We’ve Been Bizzy! While this is our first public coming out party, our gang has been hard at work for several months buzzing about with shaping the concept,...