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Throughout the year I will see most 6th graders for Research Tech once a cycle. All of our work is driven by an Information Fluency Curriculum which is intended to help them become good digital citizens and efficient, effective and ethical users of information, to help them be better students in all of their other classes and to give them confidence in working with all the resources that our Library has to offer.
We work in a Research Tech Google Classroom, which allows your 6th grader access to any homework, projects and information that they may need. They can access their Google Classroom from any computer with internet access by logging into their Google account.
Click here to access the syllabus for Research Tech.
Research Tech assignments post to Google Classroom every Sunday and are due the following Sunday. Students receive an email from me reminding them to check Google Classroom and each assignment has the instructions and resources necessary to complete the assignment independently.
I love when students arrive to class with all of their work completed and can enjoy the opportunity to be self-directed learners during our class time. The link to a wide variety of Self-Directed Learning Links is always available to them on their Google Classroom where I have curated a plethora of websites, resources and databases so that students can expand their minds, create and/or learn about whatever interests them at the moment.
Throughout the year we will be using and gaining a comfort level with a number of resources including Google Classroom, Kami, Pixton, OverDrive and the Rye Neck databases. We will learn to identify key middle school-level "go to" databases to use with our research, to efficiently search those databases to find the information we need and to cite the information we use. We will also be learning about:
Digital citizenship
Email etiquette
How to create & maintain a positive digital footprint
Privacy and security
Cyber bullying
Copyright.
Please feel free to contact me at lcostelloe@ryeneck.org or 914-777-4851 if you have any questions, comments or concerns. My hope is that it will be a productive, informative and fun year for all of us and I'm always interested in knowing how I can make your child's experience even better.
Mrs. Costelloe