Discovery Library/Media Center

Common Sense Media/Education provides lessons and ideas on how to prepare students to be safe and productive while using technology.  Technology can be an amazing thing but it can also be scary.  Educators help students to understand what is safe to post online, how their information will forever be online, how to interact with people digitally, avoiding cyberbullying, how to locate information and use that information in a legal way.

Parents can also access information and look at reviews of what their child is using online.  

Common Sense Media for Parents

Common Sense Education for Educators -Also a great resource for parents to use and get ideas to help their child.

Standards in the areas of Reading, Writing, Speaking, Viewing, Listening, Media Literacy and Language for grades Kindergarten through 12th grade.

Standards

Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student's voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process. (information from ISTE)

ISTE Standards for Students

Learn Computer Science

Code.org helps students understand the basics of computer programming starting in Kindergarten.  They have to problem solve and then program the activity.

Information provided by Code.org: Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science, just like biology, chemistry or algebra. Code.org provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States and Code.org also organizes the annual Hour of Code campaign which has engaged more than 15% of all students in the world. Code.org is supported by generous donors including Amazon, Facebook, Google, the Infosys Foundation, Microsoft, and many more.

Try some coding!