BVSD Ed Tech Specialists have created this fun way to explore resources and ideas to jump start Hour of Code in your school. Just click HERE to make a copy of the game board and & invite teachers to partner with you to complete 4 activities in row. Or, modify with coding challenges you already have planned for students.
Be sure to complete click on the "tell us about it!" link at bottom of the Bingo card & share how your students are experiencing Hour of Code. Also, please add images and videos to our shared CS Week_TLs folder (just add a sub folder for your school).
Thanks to Anna Lull, TL at Community Montessori for hosting our November 13 TL Workshop. Anna shared with us how she is "cultivating" the 4 Cs with students through Digital Book Talk projects. Anna documented the process she guided students through (see slide deck to the left). Highly encourage you to review what Anna learned through this process and check out a sampling student Digital Book Talks.
Listen to Kim Butler discuss her role as Teacher Librarian at Birch Elementary and techniques for encouraging reluctant readers to love reading on the Read With You Podcast.
"Continue to expose your kids to books.
Let them listen to books. It all counts.
Don’t put a lot of rules around what counts.
If they like to read the back of the cereal box, let them do that.
Just keep throwing stuff at them so they read more and more and more."
How to Get Reluctant Readers to Love Reading - Featuring Kim Butler.
"Supremely entertaining. An ode to the teenage science geeks on whom our future depends."
CU Science Discovery is hosting a free movie screening of the new National Geographic documentary, Science Fair. Space is limited so although the event is free, we are requesting an online RSVP to ensure that we have space for everyone.