Tech 4 U
October 18, 2016
Digital Citizenship Week
Happy National Digital Citizenship Week! We challenge each teacher to register with Common Sense Education.
It's here again: Digital Citizenship Week! What can you do to celebrate kids using technology safely, responsibly, and respectfully? Empower them in three simple steps:
1. Take the Digital Citizenship for All Pledge.
Join over 5,500 educators who have pledged to teach their kids how to manage their online reputations, deal with issues such as cyberbullying, and conduct themselves safely online.
2. Ask your students to create their own pledges.
How can your students become super digital citizens? Ask them! Begin by encouraging your kids to write their own personal pledges about being good digital citizens in their everyday lives. A pledge could take the form of a motto or a slogan, a song, or a rap. It can rhyme, but it doesn't have to.
Download our Student Pledge Activity Sheet and share it with your students to get them started.
Want to challenge them further? Have your students add music or animations to their pledges and publish them as videos. Use these lists to find the right tools for your students: Great Games, Apps, and Sites for Music and Composing and Websites and Apps for Making Videos and Animations.
Digital citizenship doesn't end in the classroom. Home environments also shape kids' relationships with technology. While we promote technology use for learning, fun, and bringing people together, it's also important to balance media and tech use with undistracted face-to-face time.
Share our #DeviceFreeDinner challenge with your families to drive home the message of balance with device use. Copy and paste the following URL into your class website, newsletter, parent email, and/or social media posts to get your families to take the challenge:https://www.commonsensemedia.org/device-free-dinner
School/Home Connection - Digital Citizenship
Here are a few parent handouts:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/lessons/family-tip-sheets/en
Around the District
Greystone opened their new Maker Space last week!
Ms. Brown's classroom explored all of the STEAM materials for the first time this year.
Greystone's New Maker Space
Ms. Brown's Class Explores STEAM Materials
Ms. Brown's Class Explores STEAM Materials
Contact Us!
We would love to come to your room and teach a lesson. Here are just a few of the lessons we are teaching in the classrooms.
- Pixel Art
- MinecraftEDU
- BreakoutEDU A Bad Case of Stripes (Context Clues) 3-5
- BreakoutEDU Digital Citizenship sessions for grades 2-5
- General BreakoutEDU
- Create a digital post card using Google Slides
- Create a Mystery Number, Person, Place, or Thing with Google Slides
- Lesson on Tour Builder
- Create Student Portfolios using Google Sites
- Pick from a number of Google Projects
- Graph data using Google Sheets
- Research lessons
- Technology Playground Centers
- Code Lessons
- Google Drive lessons with the Do's and Don'ts of creating a Google Slide Presentation
- Read an Augmented Reality Digital Book with a writing extension activity using Google Docs
- Reading Centers with iPad
- Digital Citizenship Lessons
- Research Lessons
We would love to learn from you! Please invite us into your classroom to see all the engaging ways you are using technology in your classroom.
Need Help?
Sara Carpenter's Schedule:
Tuesday- Riverchase
Wednesday- South Shades Crest
Thursday- Shades Mountain
Tuesday - Deer Valley Elementary
Wednesday - Bluff Park Elementary
Thursday - Greystone Elementary
Contact Karen to schedule
Link to Help Form: http://goo.gl/forms/FSrkrKVktU
Melanie Haynes's Schedule:
Contact Melanie to schedule
Jamie Nutter's Schedule:
Tuesday - Gwin
Wednesday - Green Valley
Thursday - Rocky Ridge