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November, 2017
Greetings from the Curriculum & Educational Technology Directors!
We have teamed up to collaborate on this quarterly newsletter. We want to bring the latest, up-to-date resources to your inbox.
In this season of Advent, let us remember to be spiritual leaders in our classrooms. If you aren't already doing so, try to find new ways to incorporate Catholic Identity into your lessons. You can find many tools at ADWCollaborators.weebly.com under Religion.
Thank you for all you do to make your classrooms 21st-century learning environments. Please enjoy this quarter's tech tips, curriculum resources, and tools that allow for seamless technology integration into daily lesson planning. Please share with your faculty and staff.
God Bless,
Shannon Norris & Vicky McCann
"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."
-John Dewey, 1915
Badge data as of November 18, 2017
Top School
St. John the Evangelist, Clinton
Top Teachers
- La Keisha Gibbons
- Amanda Wilson
- Sharon Wilson
- Stephen O'Shaughnessy
- Martin Lucey
Top Badges
- ADWT2T
- TED Talks
- IXL
- Exit Ticket
- Go Noodle
Breakfast with I.T., Security Best Practices for School Technology/I.T. Staff
Join Will Potter, CIO & Executive Director of Information Technology for the Archdiocese of Washington, for an informative session to discuss school security best practices. We will provide coffee and pastries. RSVP no later than January 2, 2018. https://goo.gl/pG1j37
EdCamp Coming to the ADW?!?!
Details and registration here
Questions? edcampadw@gmail.com
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Learn more about EdCamp ADW http://adwcollaborators.weebly.com/edcamp-adw.html
Curriculum Overview
ADW Curriculum Videos
Follow ADW Curriculum on Vimeo in order to "Learn with Jane, our ADW Teacher"!
STEM Resources
STEM to STEAM to STREAM
STREAM
More to come...
#ADWTeach Chat
Don't have Twitter? Step-by-step instructions
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Calendar of official Educational chats on Twitter (Our chat will be added soon)
Microsoft Office Android Apps now Available on all Chromebooks
12 Strategies to Manage the Modern Classroom
Kindergartners Building Web Pages on Chromebooks
Preparing for Catholic Schools Week Activities - Collaborate Across Classrooms!
An Academic Use for Social Media
You can leverage micro-writing—tweets, Instagram posts, and the like—to help students improve their communication and writing skills. Use social media to build 21st century communication skills http://edut.to/2wa0892 ; and motivate students #edtech #onlinelearning
Thinglink Education Blog
Assistive Technology Learning Webinar
Happy CSEd Week from Google EDU
Happy CSEd Week
This week, (December 4-10) officially marks Computer Science Education Week, an exciting week for educators and students to try coding for the first time. Students can create an interactive Google Doodle, code their own version of the Google logo, or get in the holiday spirit with the Holiday Emoji project! Starting this week, school districts and other educational nonprofits can apply for CS professional development grants.
Check Out New EDU in 90 Episodes
Head over to the Google for Education YouTube channel for new EDU in 90 episodes on quizzes with Google Forms and Google Keep in the classroom. These fun, bite-sized videos will fill you in on the latest products, programs, and classroom resources from Google.
Computer Science Hits the Basketball Court
Who says athletes can’t code? Google’s CS Education team paired up with the NBA to host “Tech Slam,” an event with Golden State Warriors champions Andre Igoudala and JaVale McGee. At the event, hundreds of local Bay Area students gathered to chat about CS in sports. Google.org also announced a $1M grant to the “Hidden Genius Project,” an organization working to increase the representation of black male youth in tech. You can get your students involved in the intersection of sports and CS today with our sports-themed CS First project.
December 16th
Join our Live Computer Science Summit
We’re excited to bring “Building Pathways to Teaching Computer Science,” an online professional development summit for K12 educators to our YouTube Channel. Educators, CS education leaders, and professional development providers will come together to share their expertise during this live event. To tune in, head to the Google for Education YouTube channel at 10 a.m. PST on December 16.
Visit Polar Bears Live from your Classroom
Ever dream of seeing a polar bear up-close? With Explore.org, the world's leading live nature cam network, you can visit the tundra right from your classroom. Your journey starts here, in polar bear country in the Canadian Subarctic.
HOUR OF CODE is HERE!!!
This is the fifth year of the Hour of Code. As we look back on what’s happened since just last year, the results are incredible. Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Romania all announced national plans for computer science. And in the U.S., the federal government and 40 different states are expanding plans or funding for K-12 computer science.
And this year, we want everyone to go beyond an Hour of Code for CS Education Week. With an incredible groundswell of support and attention, it’s the ideal time to put the spotlight on computer science programs across the country. So today we’re calling on administrators, teachers, parents, and everyone passionate about computer science to make lasting change and help bring computer science to every school district.
Take a "journey" with Minecraft!
Two weeks ago, we announced the first new Hour of Code activities from dozens of partners. Now, we’re excited to share a brand new activity from Code.org and Microsoft, Minecraft: Hero’s Journey! Introducing the Minecraft Agent, students write code to instruct the Agent to execute commands and overcome in-game obstacles.
Using the Minecraft world they know and love, students of all ages and experience levels can learn how to use loops, debugging, functions, and problem-solving to achieve their goals. If you’ve used a previous Hour of Code Minecraft activity, this new one provides a perfect way to expand your students’ knowledge of computer science. The learning doesn’t end there: students can import their code into Minecraft: Education Edition to bring their own creations to life in the real game. And of course, Minecraft Designer and Minecraft Adventurer are always available to play!
Played around the world 70 million times, over the last two years students have used the Minecraft tutorials to build new worlds and bring them to life over a single hour.
Sign up your Hour of Code event here if you haven't yet and get ready to create!
Hadi Partovi,
Code.org
Computer Science Week #SeeSawCoders
Save the Dates: December 5th and 6th, 2017
Join our live webinars with your students! We hope to empower all students to see the different opportunities in computer science, practice their creative problem-solving skills, and collaborate to improve their communities during this exciting week.
December 5, 2017
Meet our product design team and see how features of Seesaw are built, tested, and revised using Design Thinking. Register here!
December 5, 2017
Learn the basic steps in building an app from Seesaw's co-founders!
Grades PreK-2 register here!
Grades 3-8 register here!
December 6, 2017
Learn about jobs in computer science and meet a software engineer.
Grades PreK-2 register here!
Grades 3-8 register here!
December 6, 2017
Meet the awesome women who code and do other amazing jobs at Seesaw! Hear about their experiences working in technology. Register here!
December 6, 2017
Join members of the Seesaw Team and hear about the courses they took and interests they had that lead them to a job in computer science.
Please register if your class can attend live.
If you can't make it live we'll post recordings to our website.
Click here for more resources!
We're looking forward to an amazing week and are eager to answer questions live from your students!
- The Seesaw Team
Tata Consultancy Services & Discovery Education are Excited to Announce
The Ignite My Future in School Webisode Series
Join us on November 30th, as we launch this new tool within Ignite my Future in School's portfolio of professional development resources.
Experience the pillars of Ignite My Future In School through our dynamic new webisode series. Each online event is designed to build confidence and understanding around key areas supporting computational thinking and transdisciplinary education. Register now to join LIVE.
November 30th
Ignite My Future in School - An Introduction
In our premiere webisode, we break down the seven strategies that comprise computational thinking and showcase teachers and principals in action as they pave the way toward a transdisciplinary environment for their students. It is quite possible you are using many of these strategies already, and we will walk through ways to further that instruction using Ignite My Future in School's resources.
December 7th
Transforming the Future by Leading the Pack
Steve Dembo literally wrote the book on Untangling the Web in 21st Century edtech. In this webisode, he will explain why it is so important to be an early adopter of computational thinking and the long-term edge it will provide the students learning through this process as they face the opportunities of the future.
December 13th
Computational thinking is NOT just about computers! It is a skill that transforms problem-solving across subjects and disciplines. Watch and learn as we walk through a model transdisciplinary lesson from Ignite My Future in School that applies computational thinking concepts to real-world situations for today's students.
Visit ignitemyfutureinschool.org to explore additional 21st century curriculum and professional development materials.
10 Hour of Code Resources ( Week of December 4-10) - From Vickie Davis @CoolCatTeacher
1. Wonder Workshop Hour of Code Resources
2. Teach the Hour of Code from Code.org
5. Scratch Jr
6. Scratch
7. CodeSpark
8. Metaverse It is a fun tool to use to program in augmented reality. They also have many breakout education experiences already made for all ages. Download the app or start building. Read their article, Create Magic in Your Classroom about how this works.
9. 3 Ways Coding and Gaming Can Enhance Learning
10. Sinespace - a Virtual world building environment
More from Vickie Davis on her blog