Students are learning how to be safe, responsible and respectful online. Common Sense Media lessons are being used for grades K-4 while students in 5th grade are using Everfi.   Continue reading →

Yadira of Sunset Spark visited the Lower School Technology room and did a Robotics lesson with some 2nd graders. They used WeDo Legos to build their robots and learned how robotics is used in the world today.       Continue reading →

As a culminating project to their Scratch Unit, some students chose to create a game. They included some video game characteristics such as win/lose sounds, programmed speech, directions, goals, reset blocks etc. Then created a screencast in which they recorded the demonstration. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/145923875/  Bengamin https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwAweeMS06nPZDVRcjZ5MEZIX0U/view    Andrew https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0633–XxGWyODA2X3BuaEpockk/view    Alex https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwE6zxad4h_6YkVGQXFDWVNScDg/view    Savino https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx55LruYtsukZ3ZoYmhBRHlJem8/view    … Continue reading →

          Here are just a few of the Name Animations created by our 3rd Graders. They coded to add various types of motion, sound, and color to their name. Then shared with their classmates to receive feedback. As you can see in these pictures above. https://vimeo.com/211539727 https://vimeo.com/211340753   Afrah https://vimeo.com/211340722   Allegra https://vimeo.com/211340700  … Continue reading →

In this photo, a first grader is demonstrating the ShowMe app. Some students in the Lower school have begun the Digital Storytelling Unit. In this unit the students will learn grade appropriate visual storytelling language, strategies and software. They will learn how meaning is created by combining visuals, audio and text.  Students will learn about … Continue reading →