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Every technology project at Heathcote begins on paper. Technology is used in a very purposeful way and very rarely in isolation. Student projects often begin with post-it notes and pencils even if they end up as a studetn review website, or a documentary movie on YouTube or an Ignite presentation in front of a room…
On March 14, 2024 we had the first technology Parent Coffee of the 2023-20224 school year. The event was an overview of “Technology @HeathcoteSchool” which essential means I covered the Scarsdale School’s technology vision and then how it manifests itself here at Heathcote. As a district we follow the national ISTE standards for technology education…
Media Literacy Week is October 23-27 and sponsored by The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). NAMLE defines medial literacy as The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication. We are always talking about media literacy with students. From concepts as simple as thinking about audience and how…
October 16-20 is Digital Citizenship Week. At Heathcote we talk about digital citizenship, and digital leadership, across all lessons and projects. We discuss such things as keeping passwords private, limiting identifiable information, making thoughtful decisions online, being purposeful about looking for the good (and not the garbage) and much more. We weave all these concepts…
October 16-20 is Digital Citizenship Week. At Heathcote we talk about digital citizenship, and digital leadership, across all lessons and projects. We discuss such things as keeping passwords private, limiting identifiable information, making thoughtful decisions online, being purposeful about looking for the good (and not the garbage) and much more. We weave all these concepts…
Students and Parents, We have begun to roll out devices to students. As of 9/14/2023 all students, Kindergarten through 5th grade, will have had the Responsible Use Policy lesson. By 9/13/2023 all of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades will have had an initial iPad Chromebook login lesson (Seesaw, Google, etc). The Responsible Use…
Welcome to the 2023-2024 school year! Use this site for access to updates from the HeathcoteTech lab, tutorials, recommendations, and more. For access to classroom teacher pages and access to student online services check out the HeathcoteGateway. Have a great school year!
Once again the 5th graders were amazing and rocked the CapCon! Capstone event. Students documented their experience on their own blogs, ask your child to show you their posts! Check out all of their speeches and movies here: CapCon! a capstone learning conference playlist on Youtube The 2021-2022 5h graders did amazing work, during very…
This post is about the culmination of the 5th grade immigration unit of study. Between their in-class activities, homework, and technology production this was a project that was over 2 months in the making. The 5th graders created amazing documentary movies about their interview subject. They did research, asked questions, created a script, gathered media,…
It’s Capstone season, and that means CapCon! is getting closer. CapCon! is the annual Capstone Learning Conference where students share the stories of their learning. The Capstone support section of the HeathcoteGateway is up. Use it to get inspiration from previous years, guide your thinking on final presentation format, reference the project guidelines, request support,…