Have you heard of ReadWriteThink, and more importantly, have teachers and parents heard about it? If you work in a school media center or public library, feel free to point users to this site, as it is a gem.
A few facts about this plethora of materials:
Site is assembled by the International Literacy Association
886 lesson plans, 58 student interactives, 106 activities & projects, 23 games & tools, and 25 tips & how-to’s
Audience: Educators, parents, and communities
Tip:Tool bar on the left side of the page allows you to search and filter by interest area and audience
228 resources are available for professional development
At the bottom of the tool bar, check out themes and note that there are 75 resources there specific to holidays!
Hour of Code is coming and it is a global movement, bigger than ever!
93,860 Hour of Code events reached over 100,000 students in 180 countries last year.
Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event.
The grassroots campaign goal is for students to try an Hour of Code anytime during the week of December 7-13, in celebration of Computer Science Education Week.
One-hour tutorials are available in over 40 languages. Ages 4 to 104, no experience is needed.
It is especially exciting to see the surge of girls participating in this empowering skill. Go to the main Hour of Code site, read through the FAQ’s right off the main page to get questions answered. Although some may think this is only school centered, it could be a great makerspace activity too!
CMLE staff would love to share your Hour of Code success stories. Be sure to send us who, what, when and where after your event and include Hour of Code in the subject line.
Are you looking for lesson plans to help teach online research? Edudemic and Google to the rescue! Edudemic recently highlighted 15 lesson plans, courtesy of Google, designed to make students better online researchers. The lesson plans are organized by difficulty and meant to help students become better online searchers.
Want a quick overview? Check out this Lesson Plan Map first to see what they offer.
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Image by Jonathan Barragan. Retrieved from Flickr. Used under Creative Commons’ licensing.
Update 9/22/2014: “AASL has received word that the organization that hosts and provides technical support for the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Lesson Plan Database has refocused their mission and will no longer be providing these services. As such, the lesson plan database will be archived and future plans are currently under consideration” (AASL Lesson Plan Database).
Whether you are looking for a lesson plan on digital citizenship or wanting to share the snazzy lesson plan you created on screen-casting, there is now a place to do so. After all, why should every school media specialist re-invent the wheel, right?
AASL gets credit for creating this database, and contributors get credit for what is in it! This lesson plan database is meant to support school media specialists and other educators too as they teach essential learning skills within the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner.
You can do free searches by standards and indicators, content topic, grade level, type of lesson or schedule, and of course keyword too. Registered users can bookmark lesson plans, rate and comment on content, print to PDF and socially share content too. Again, it is free.
Have you heard of ReadWriteThink, and more importantly, have teachers and parents heard about it? If you work in a school media center or public library, feel free to point users to this site, as it is a gem.
