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Understanding the Four C's
Understanding the Four C's
Think of the Four C’s as soft skills or character traits that enhance interpersonal capability and our success in working with other people. We need to incorporate these skills into our lessons, but they are more often cultivated rather than graded.
The skilled and intuitive educator finds a way to weave them into most lessons and purposefully adds opportunities for students to build these skills as part of classroom culture. We intentionally add them to the flow of learning that is happening in the classroom.
You may have surmised that these types of skills will be very important for students once they hit the workforce. For this reason, emphasizing including them in the early stages of student learning is vitally important to their future success.
Digital Resources to Support the 4 Cs
Collaboration Resources - Engage students in digital collaboration resources and build new skills.
Communication Resources - Effectively communicate content, ideas, and opinions.
Critical Thinking Resources - Exercise the brain and develop new ideas.
Creativity Resources - Creating should be part of the learning process, not just a final product.
Below are some useful educational technology tools that many of our teachers utilize in the classroom for a variety of purposes, and as a result the district has purchased the premium versions for some of them. All of these vendors have met the Data Privacy requirements and can be found in this Approved List of services. Any staff member may request a review of a new resource or permission to use a resource currently owned, subscribed to, or free by completing this Approval Form. If you would like a quick tutorial on any of the software below, please reach out to your respective Educational Technology teacher or contact Jay Salerno.
Use this key to identify apps and tools below to help instruction, activities and assignments.
BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr. are a group of educational websites with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music. To access any of the BrainPOP products, please use your Google credentials and this document for school codes.
Breakout EDU is the immersive learning games platform. With Breakout EDU kits, you can turn your classroom into an academically-focused escape room and facilitate games where players use teamwork and critical thinking to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to open the locked box. Games are available for all ages and content areas.
Classcraft is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by harnessing the power of games and stories — things kids love — Classcraft helps you turn your class into an experience that your students can’t get enough of..
CommonLit.org: Access the tools to implement an effective literacy program in your classroom, school, or district.
Common Sense Media supports K–12 schools with everything educators need to empower the next generation of digital citizens. Our innovative, award-winning Digital Citizenship Curriculum prepares students with lifelong habits and skills, supports teachers with training and recognition, and engages families and communities with helpful tips and tools. Schools everywhere rely on our free curriculum, expert advice, and edtech ratings to help kids thrive. Our vision: Students thriving as learners, leaders, and citizens in the digital age.
Interactive STEM activities, free for your classroom. The Concord Consortium--NGSS allows teachers to bring out the inner scientist in all your students with our scientifically accurate models and activities.
The Discovery Education Experience: Recently teachers’ and students' names and G Suite log-in information have been synced with Powerschool for Discovery Education. Teachers and students simply “Sign-in with Google” with their G Suite username and password. In addition, classes have now been rostered. Resources can also be added directly to Google Classroom assignments, questions, or announcements in a class without leaving the resource you are sharing. Click here to read more about the Discovery Education Experience.
EDpuzzle is a free interactive assessment tool that lets the teacher select a video and easily modify it making it personal, engaging and effective. In addition, it contains powerful analytic tools to track each student in the classroom and is great for individualized lesson plans or the flipped classroom. NPS has premium accounts for all teachers. Use the following links to access the premium accounts for NHS, Martin Kellogg, and John Wallace only.
Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. The district has premium accounts for the middle schools only. Click on the correct link below for the proper subscription:
Formative, which is also known as GoFormative, is a web-based tool that allows teachers to create digital formative assessments, tasks, or assignments that are easily accessible from any electronic device: laptop, tablet, or smartphone
GoGuardian (for Teachers)--This application will be available for teachers to be able monitor and manage students and their Chromebooks. This actively integrates with Google Classroom. Here is the link to setting it up. You should have received an email from GoGuardian in order to activate your account and change your password. Here is how you use Google Forms with Scenes in GoGuardian. If you did not get an email from GoGuardian, please contact Jay Salerno.
Google Classroom helps students and teachers organize assignments, boost collaboration, and foster better communication. Classroom is a streamlined, easy-to-use tool that helps teachers manage coursework. With Classroom, educators can create classes, distribute assignments, grade and send feedback, and see everything in one place.
Google Docs brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs. Choose from a variety fonts, add links, images, and drawings. With Google Docs collaborators can work together in the same document at the same time.
Google Drawings is a powerful, versatile creation tool that allows you to make all sorts of graphic designs and publications. Here is a collection of graphic organizer templates.
Google Earth Voyager is a showcase of interactive guided tours, quizzes, and layers that aim to help educate everyone about the world, locations near and far. Within Google Earth, students can experience and create stories about the world.
Google Forms to create forms, quizzes, and surveys to collect and analyze responses with the help of machine learning.
Google Maps are a fun and visual way to help students understand geography concepts, map reading, location, and distance measurement. Besides using Google Maps to teach the fundamentals of mapping, like latitude and longitude, you can inspire students to investigate the world and to think spatially.
Google Meet to connect with students virtually through secure video calls and messaging to keep learning going outside of school.
Google Sites is an easy-to-use web builder to create sites, host course curriculum, build development skills, and unleash students’ creativity.
Google Slides saves you time, keeps you organized, and allows you to connect and collaborate with your students in real time. With Google Slides, you can create, edit, collaborate, and present wherever you are.
InsertLearning turns almost any website into an engaging lesson by adding questions, discussions, insight, and more into the text. Even more, it has seamless integration with Google Classroom. As an ambassador district for the product, NPS has premium accounts for all teachers. Click here to access the NPS account.
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms!
MagicSchool AI: The award-winning, most used, and most loved AI platform for schools in the world. Educators use MagicSchool to help lesson plan, differentiate, write assessments, write IEPs, communicate clearly, and more. And now use MagicSchool for Students to bring responsible AI experiences to students and build AI literacy for the next generation.
Nepris connects educators and learners with a network of industry professionals, virtually, bringing real-world relevance and career exposure to all students. Nepris also provides a skills-based volunteering platform for organizations to extend education outreach, and build their brand among the future workforce.
Newsela takes authentic content from the world's most trusted providers and turn it into learning materials that are classroom-ready. Content areas include Science, Social Studies, ELA, and SEL.
NHS LibGuides: Research guides and access to databases and eBook collections accessible to NHS students and staff at school and home. (Remote use requires login. Contact bhartley@npsct.org for assistance.)
Padlet is a collaborative tool that allows users to add posts with one click, copy-paste, or drag and drop. Padlet works the way your mind works - with sight, sound, and touch changes are autosaved. Simple link sharing allows for quick collaboration. The district has a premium subscription to Padlet Backpack. To access this subscription, please click here and Log in with Google.
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account. Students log into the presentation with unique access codes and interact with questions while teachers monitor student and whole-class progress.
Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.
Texthelp describes Read&Write as an extension that acts "like a literacy toolbar that is great for all subjects to help students understand, learn, and express themselves. It offers support with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work. It’s designed in line with the principles of UDL (Universal Design for Learning), so it fits right in with a wide range of educational technology strategies, personalized learning plans, ESOL and IEP students."
Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome. It is able to record all screen activity inside a tab, including audio. Just press record and the content of your tab is recorded. So you can easily create a screencast for video tutorials, record presentations etc. It also supports desktop capturing, allowing you to record anything on your screen (not just tabs). NPS has premium accounts for all teachers.
StoryboardThat is a graphic organizer and storyboard creator that reinforces English and History concepts in elementary school and beyond. Versatile materials and drag-and-drop technology make this program applicable across grade levels. Educators can also use this program to enhance understanding through visual learning. NPS has premium accounts for all MIDDLE SCHOOL teachers and students. Click here to access the premium account.
WeVideo-Used by millions of students in every grade and subject area, WeVideo empowers every learner to discover their voice and make an impact in their world. Our platform promotes deeper learning while making it fun and easy for students to express their ideas with creativity and authenticity.
The Wonder of Science is a science website that contains resources and assessments to build inquiry.
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