Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society in the Media Center

So much is happening in the Media Center at Summit.  We are building our preparing 21st Century students with skills in the "Six C's"...they are: 

  

• 1.)  critical thinking
• 2nd graders have started their Structure and Function Project Lead the Way lesson.  They are learning about engineers, structures, and functions.  They are learning about a storybook character girl, Angelina, who wants to design a new paintbrush.  Then they are being asked to think about things around them that engineers had to design and sketch various items in the Launch Logs.  
• Kindergarten building structures to keep the hexbug in.  
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• 2.)  communication
• Students are letting their voices be heard through Google Forms by voting for their favorite storybook character pumpkin, their funniest pumpkin, and their most creative pumpkin.  Take a look at our amazing pumpkins and the results.
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• Most Creative, Funniest, Most to look like the storybook character
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• 3.)  collaboration
• 4th graders have been exploring Interland, program designed by Google, to become better digital citizens.  This week they worked in groups to form a extra-secure password.  Each group then had to present their passwords to the class and they voted with red, green, and yellow lights on how strong the password was.  We discussed things the characteristics of strong passwords:
• *something you can remember, but difficult for others to guess
• *include symbols
• *use a combination of upper and lower case letters
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• 4.)  creativity

• 6th graders are creating videos and flyers to advertise their "mock" Fall Festival.  They had to work in groups to plan their budget, entertainment, amusements, food, etc.  Then they had to use video editing tools such as WeVideo or Animoto to make a promotional video.  Some groups opted to do the flyer, which they could use Google Docs or Canva to create.  

Here are some of the 6th grade videos/flyers.

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