Upper Elementary

Students in Upper Elementary receive 1 hour of technology instruction every week from Sarah Rosenberg, the Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) and Jessica Gillis, the Library Media Specialist (LMS). Upper Elementary students use Chromebooks daily in their classrooms under the direction of the classroom teacher.


Upper Elementary Library/Technology curriculum covers:

Every year:

  • Hour of Code
  • Digital Citizenship: Cyber-safety/privacy/Acceptable Use Policy
  • Media Literacy: purpose & messages
  • Basic video production: storyboard/script, editing

Cycle A

  1. Media Literacy: Advertising
  2. Genre Study
  3. Book Trailer video production
  4. Digital footprint

Cycle B

  1. Website Evaluation & Searching
  2. Author Study
  3. Copyright, intellectual property
  4. Research, citations & plagiarism
  5. Library/catalog video tour production