Media Literacy Week

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…

Digital Citizenship Resources for Parents – 3-5

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…

Digital Citizenship Resources for Parents – K-2

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…

Responsible Use Policy – All Students Grades K-5- 2023

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…

CapCon! 2023 – a primer

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,…

4th Grade – Stuyvesant and Minuet

4th graders, We have been talking about Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuet as past of the Manahatta to Manhattan project. Here are the resources we worked with in class: Peter Stuyvesant  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Stuyvesant https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-stuyvesant/ http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/peter-stuyvesant/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stuyvesant?scrlybrkr=cef3dea8 https://www.mcny.org/petrus-stuyvesant Peter Minuet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Minuit https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/peter-minuit/ https://www.mcny.org/peter-minuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit Remember, the internet has 2 things; good and garbage. Garbage doesn’t just mean…

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