Tackling AI with Socratic Seminar
In the past few years, educators have continually been challenged ...
Hour of Code: Step by Step
Step 1: Choose a tutorial from Code.org and sign up on their website. Step 2: Plan your technology needs. Hour of Code tutorials work on PCs, smartphones, tablets, and some that require no computer at all! You can join wherever you are, with whatever you have. Make sure to test tutorials on student computers or devices ...
Adobe Creative Cloud Express: Unleash Creativity and Capture Student Learning
Adobe Creative Cloud Express (previously known as Adobe Spark) is an online and mobile app that allows users to create videos, graphics, and web pages with ease. Issaquah students and staff have FREE Education accounts for Adobe Creative Cloud Express which were set-up for us by our IT department. To access your teacher or student account, ...
Flipgrid + Immersive Reader = Access for All!
Flipgrid is taking on the ISTE standard of "Empowered Learner" to an entirely new level, by incorporating Microsoft's Immersive Reader tool. This way, not only are students encouraged to use their voices to post their own videos, but there are built-in supports for them to listen to the initial prompt. By incorporating Immersive Reader ...
Classroom View – November 22
We’re trying something new here at Bits & Pieces. We’re out in classrooms all the time and want to highlight all the great work we are seeing. So each week we are choosing one photo from our travels and sharing it through something we are calling Classroom View. If you happen to snap a great ...
Computer Science Education Week: Who is Grace Hopper?
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) studied math and physics at Vassar and Yale in a time many women did not attend college. A professor at Vassar college when World War II erupted, she was compelled to join the US Navy to assist with the war efforts. Grace was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at ...
Hour of Code: Questions and Answers
What is Hour of Code? Hour of Code began in 2014 as a one hour introduction to Computer Science. It was developed as a way to demystify "code" and broaden participation. Schools, businesses, and communities across the globe participate in one hour of coding during Computer Science Education week. While one hour is not enough ...
Using Seesaw to Showcase Student Learning During Conferences
Hey, Elementary Teachers. You may not want to hear this yet, but... CONFERENCES ARE COMING! It will be here before you know it and you may be trying to think of some ways to show parents all the great things your students have learned so far since the beginning of the school year. Last year, ...
December 9th – 15th is Computer Science Education Week!
Computers are everywhere, changing every industry on the planet. But only 45% of all high schools teach computer science. Good news is, we’re on our way to change this! If you've heard about the Hour of Code before, you might know it made history. More than 100 million students have tried an Hour of Code. ...
Microsoft Inclusive Math Tools
One Note (Class Notebook) offers several inclusive features to support student learning including Math Tools. This inclusive feature allows students to solve math problems, see how the problem was solved, graph the problem, and interact with the graph. They can also create their own practice quiz, use the Immersive Reader tool to read the problem aloud, ...
Classroom View: November 15
Anisa Zareh's Earth Science students modeling land formation.