This week, since several of the Tech classes have been exploring coding this year, I decided to match the experienced coders up with their younger reading buddies for some one-on-0ne coding instruction! SO fun and we will definitely do it again later in the year…
As today was a parent conference day for upper school teachers, specials teachers were asked to take over their classes. I hosted both the 5th and 6th grades for a combined Library/Tech time – bookmaking and Little Bits exploration in the library. We had a great, busy, noisy, productive time!!!
This week, Sixth and Seventh Graders talked about web site credibility – knowing who the author is and what his/her credentials are; how the site is being funded and who is making the information available; and when was the site published. We looked at Sweet Search– a search engine that is an alternative to Google created for students’ use and vetted by “internet librarians.” We tried an experiment by searching for Hillary Clinton on both Google and Sweet Search to compare search results. There were definitely more Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and other like sites on the Google first page than on Sweet Search, whose citings included the New York Times, Washington Post, Hillary Clinton.com, Politico, and so on.
The children then did some research on topics for their science projects.
Third and Fourth Graders started their typing program.
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