Integrating Ada Lovelace into Your Classroom

Ada Lovelace Lesson Plan Content Warning: Many websites, books, and videos about Ada Lovelace focus quite a bit of attention on the more unsavory aspects of her father’s life, as well as certain events of the later part of her own life, which may not be appropriate...

Six Red Marbles Celebrates 25 Years of Edtech Leadership

The Marbles Start Rolling Twenty-five years ago, the six original Marbles started Six Red Marbles, “a high-caliber full-service development team providing content, design, programming, production, and testing services.” Today, we number more than 200 Marbles, with...

Incorporating Learner Feedback into Your Design Process

One of the key models for learning experience designers is the ADDIE model: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. This is supposed to be a cycle, with evaluation informing revisions and iterations. As a third-party developer, Six Red Marbles...

Simple Ways to Bring SEL Practices into Online Learning

Social and emotional learning (SEL), also sometimes written as social-emotional learning, is an instructional approach that has been growing in popularity and demand over the last few years. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)...

Two Ways of Teaching History

History teachers face a perennial challenge: how to cover an increasing amount of content in a finite amount of time. Every year, there’s a little bit more history to add, but there are never more school days to cover it. The Traditional Approach: Chronological...