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This is a tool I found and implemented with my online learning for my business classes. It's a great way for students to join a debate and interact. How I am using it online is allowing students to debate on a topic of their interest that is related to one of the units we covered prior to school shut down. What a great way to learn and interact globally and provide new insight for students on topics of interest!

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Search for discussion topics by exploring different tags on Kialo, the platform for rational debate.

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A lot of teachers have used Kahoot in our own rooms, so why not expand the borders of your classroom to another class, school, city, state, or even different country? What a cool way to reach out to another class (by Twitter, Skype, etc.) and connect with other classes in the same content as you!

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Equity Maps can be used as a collaborative technology for students to examine multiple viewpoints in discussion.

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Equity Maps® - Improve collaboration, reflection & engagement- iPad App for Socratic Seminars, Spider Web Discussions, Literacy Circles, or with any group discussions!

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Equity Maps (iPad app) provides immediate feedback to boost collaboration in your group or classroom! Equity Maps charts & plays back the interaction of students or colleagues to graphically illustrate levels of participation. Provide a mirror image of any classroom or meeting to promote deeper reflection among participants.

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Google Keep is a great way for students to organize and share information. It syncs to their phone and computers. They can share and collaborate with others on it, and you can also input the information you save onto Google Slides. It is a great online "notebook" for kids to save their own ideas, thoughts, and other information.

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Google Keep is a fantastic and robust tool for teachers and students. In this blog post and podcast episode, I will share 25+ awesome ways to use Google Keep!

Find out how to use this tool for notes, labeling, annotation, speech to text, feedback, and more!

If you have never experienced the wonder that is Google Keep, go to keep.google.com to check it out.

Google Keep automatically syncs with your Google account and is a part of G Suite for Education.

Let's dig in to all the features!

And grab your FREE Bonus: The Google Keep Cheat Sheet!

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Google Keep is an online web tool for creating and saving notes, lists, reminders, and more.

Think of Google Keep like an online sticky note board, with digital versions of your sticky notes. You can add images, text, drawings, voice notes, and more.

This robust tool is underutilized!

You and your students can use Google Keep to take notes, manage projects, set goals, communicate, and collaborate in your classroom.

Get the FREE Google Keep Cheat Sheet:

Get Google Keep Everywhere

Google Keep can be used in any browser, but I highly recommend you use Google Chrome and install the Chrome App and Extension.

There are additional features that only work on mobile, so be sure that you also install the app on your mobile devices.
Google Keep for Chrome
Google Keep Basics
Google Keep on Mobile
Create a Note

Note Options

Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students

Adding custom images to create visually driven notes can be a great use for teachers and students.

Reminders: Create a reminder by date and time or a location-based reminder.

Add Collaborators: Share your notes and lists with other individuals or groups.

Change the Note Color: Choose from a palette of other colors to brighten things up or color-code your notes.

Add an Image: Add a picture (or snap a photo on mobile) to your notes.

To learn more about this strategy, check out my previous post: Personalize Google Keep for You and Your Students.

Add a Drawing to Your Notes

To Add a Drawing: Go to the 3 dots on your note, and select "add drawing."

This allows you to sketch using the drawing tools (pen, marker, or highlighter) and add them to a note.

Choose from different sizes and colors and add your drawing to a note or an image.

You can even annotate on top of an image.

Use the Drawing Tool for Annotation & Labeling

AutoDraw is a great way to use the stylus and/or tablet to draw or take notes that can then easily be saved to Google Keep.

Keep Integration with Other G Suite Apps

1. Add the image to Keep

2. If you want to use an article or paragraph, take a screenshot and upload it.

3. Click or tap on the image to get the drawing tools.

4. Draw, label, or annotate.

5. Be sure to click DONE to save the changes.

6. If you want this shared, they can add you as a collaborator, right-click and copy the image, or convert to Google Docs.

Inside your favorite Google app, go to the sidebar and click on the Keep icon.

Google Docs Integration

Click-and-drag from the Google Keep sidebar to add notes and images to your document.
Save Text or Images as a Note

1. Open a Google Doc or Slide.

2. Highlight and right-click the text or image you want to save as a note.

3. From the menu that appears, select Save to Keep notepad.

Add a Note to a Doc or Slide
Google Slides Integration

1. Open a Google Doc or Slide.

2. Click on the Keep icon in the sidebar.

3. In the side panel, locate the note you want to add to the file.

4. Click and drag the note into your document.

Outline your presentation in Google Keep, then click and drag to add content.

Note: this works best with a blank slide!

Google Keep for Feedback & Assessment

Google Keep makes the perfect companion for teachers giving feedback and assessing student work.

4 of my favorite ways to use Google Keep for feedback:

See my previous blog post for all the details: 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback & Assessmen t.

Check out this idea for Docs Stickers from Stephanie Filardo

Convert Paper Notes to Digital!

Using the mobile app or a webcam:

Voice Notes (Mobile Only)

There are so many ways for secondary students to use Google Keep! Check out my previous blog post and infographic for details.

Snap a photo of your paper notes, sticky notes, meeting notes, sketches, etc.

Students can snap a photo of notes, problem solve, hand draw sketches, etc.

Any text found in the image is searchable in Google Keep.

BONUS: Grab image text, and the text is added to the note!

Google Keep for Student Goal Setting

Reflection/Journaling

Tap the microphone at the bottom of the screen near, "Take a note..."

Dictate your note into the app.

BONUS: Speech is translated into text and added to your note!

Google Keep works great for reflections and journaling:

Curation with the Keep Chrome Extension

Curation is an important 21st Century skill for students and teachers, and the Keep Chrome extension makes this easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

Use Labels to "Keep" Keep Organized

Goal setting is one important way to empower student learners; in fact, it's in the ISTE standards!

Help students set meaningful learning goals for your classroom, AND

Help students set THEIR OWN, personal learning goals!

Start simple: Ask students, What are three things that would make today great.

Try to keep them from being "grade," focused

Please share in the comments below.

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Teachers reflect on the lesson and assessment.

Students reflect on their own learning and progress.

Quick journals and longer journal assignments work great in Keep.

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Online tours - Enjoy the Louvre at home!

1. Back to Home

2. See all breadcrumbs

3. Online tours

Virtual tours

From afar. Travelling Materials and Objects

Through materials and objects, this exhibition describes exchanges between distant worlds - exchanges often far more ancient than the explorations of the 16th century. From deepest antiquity, carnelian, lapis lazuli, ebony and ivory circulated along trade routes...

Louvre at home

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Code.org is a free coding website. If you research the statistics of students who can code and the positive effects it has, you will be wondering why you aren't teaching coding at your school! They impact on logical thinking, problem solving, and many other areas helps improve student academics. I wish I would have been implementing coding into all my classes for brain breaks or at least a mini maker space on short class period days the last 5 years!

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Anyone can learn computer science. Make games, apps and art with code.

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DI has STEAM-based challenges that foster creativity, communication, and collaboration while problem solving. They can even compete in events or you could just use as a resource in your classroom to challenge students!

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Destination Imagination (DI) is a global educational nonprofit dedicated to inspiring the next generation of innovators, leaders and creative problem solvers.

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Students can take classes and even get certified through courses about design thinking. They seem to be designed to help students in business, taking a customer base creative problem solving viewpoint. While courses are not free, it could be an option for some great learning.

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Design thinking is an approach to creative problem solving. It is a human-centered approach to innovation that will transform the way you develop products, services, and organizations.

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Students can create mind maps for presentations and document outlines. They can also publish their ideas to their own social networks or online.

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Structure writing

Use notes and attachments to quickly create a structure for an article or a writing assignment, then create a document outline and continue editing in your favourite writing tool

Create storyboards

Use a frictionless planning canvas to capture and organise your thoughts, and then put them into a powerful storyboard to turn a hierarchy of ideas into a sequence of slides.

Post to social media

MindMup Atlas automatically adds images and contextual information to ensure that your maps show up nicely on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest.

Plan and manage projects

Add measurements to map nodes to automatically calculate cost, completion and other important factors. Manage project progress easily with icons and priorities.

Collaborate easily

Maps saved to MindMup Cloud support concurrent editing for teams and classrooms, enabling you to instantly see updates made to your map by other users.

Attach documents

Add longer text, videos and spreadsheets to your maps. MindMup for Google Drive also allows you to link to other project documents on Google Drive easily.

Add images

Quickly add images and icons to your maps to provide context and illustrations.

Administer easily

Administrators can easily control sharing settings for the entire organisation. MindMup also integrates with Office365 and Google authentication for easy account management.

MindMup Cloud

Free users can create public maps up to 100 KB and save them up to six months. No account or registration needed.

Gold users can create private maps, share and edit concurrently.
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Structure writing Use notes and attachments to quickly create a structure for an article or a writing assignment, then create a document outline and continue editing in your favourite writing tool Create storyboards Use a frictionless planning canvas to capture and organise your thoughts, and then put them into a powerful storyboard to turn a hierarchy of ideas into a sequence of slides.

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Students can create numerous graphics, both from scratch or using templates. They can create social media graphics, ads, and many other types of visuals and then share to any platform. There are both free and paid features, but the free features seem extensive enough for students to use and get a lot out of it.

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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This is a way for students (even those that don't excel in ACT or SAT scores) to create a portfolio that they can submit to colleges. It is a way to showcase that their work, especially when test scores might not reflect their abilities.

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Cirkled In: Free Student Online Portfolio | Scholarship

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Create FREE Cirkled In student portfolio for college scholarship and share a student profile link to discover resources for college admission and careers

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This App is like an online Math tutor (for students and parents). Students can use it for help OR they can use it to challenge themselves with more difficult math.

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This is a website that provides all kinds fo free resources for students and teachers to use. They have an online safety education program available for all grade levels!

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Since 1998, NCMEC has operated the CyberTipline, a place where the public and electronic service providers can report suspected online and offline child sexual exploitation. The millions of reports made each year uniquely situate NCMEC to identify trends and create prevention resources to address the evolving needs of kids and teens online.

NetSmartz is NCMEC's online safety education program. It provides age-appropriate videos and activities to help teach children be safer online with the goal of helping children to become more aware of potential online risks and empowering them to help prevent victimization by making safer choices on- and offline.

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DDL project allows learners (students or teachers) to get exposure to concepts through case studies and other ways that help them act as good digital citizens. In a way, you are earning your digital driver's license by passing tests, activities needed, and engaging responsibly. You can take tests to get certified in certain areas as you work through the DDL.

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The idea of being a good digital citizen becomes more important as schools start to adopt 1:1 initiatives, get more comfortable with students bringing in their own technology and use various technology as a part of the learning process. Where does this get taught? Who teaches it?

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Spreadsheets are a great tool to collect, analyze, and present data. If you are not teaching students data organization and analysis in spreadsheets, you should be! It makes their life, and yours, easier! This is a great add-on for teachers to grade in spreadsheets (Business, Math, Science teachers!). You are able to also distribute, individual or class-wide, spreadsheet templates to be edited. I added this add-on, and can't wait to test with students when we get back to school!

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Teachers love using Google Sheets. It is one of the greatest tools for modernizing the way you teach. Google Sheets is a powerful tool on its own, but did you know that add-ons can supercharge the way you manage your classroom? You can combine add-ons and spreadsheets to track and distribute homework and grades, manage attendance, and organize contact information.

There are so many great add-ons available for Google Sheets. One of our favorites is Doctopus add-on. Doctopus is an add-on that allows teachers to transform the way they assign and manage student projects. With this add-on, teachers can distribute projects virtually using master template Docs they store on their Google Drive. There are a lot of different options, but for example, they can give the students all access to one Doc, or have it create an individual Doc for each student or group.

But there is more! You have high-levels activity monitoring and permission granting which teachers use for many different reasons, such as tracking student progress, project cut-off times, and peer-reviewing. You can easily add grades and feedback and send it off by email, all from within the spreadsheet!

The creator of Doctopus is a science teacher turned school administrator who wanted to transform teacher and student collaboration. When coming up with the concept he imagined an octopus using its tentacles to hand out homework around the web. Pretty cute! Use its full functionality to see how your teaching methods improve. Your students will love it too!

Teachers use blended technology to improve classroom workflows and teach their students valuable tech skills they will need in life. Google Sheets and Doctopus are helping to make that happen. Today we are showing you how to use the Google Sheets add-on so you can make it happen for your classroom too!

Core features

Create a class roster for multiple classes.

Create a structured, shared folder.

Choose to share a document, project, or entire folder with one or multiple classes at once.

Share different versions with students based on their level.

Automatically grant or restrict various permissions.

Use email to send notifications, feedback, and grades

Gain statistical insights into how your students revise their work and collaborate.

Integrate withGoobric.

How to access Doctopus

It is really simple to get add-ons for Sheets! The fastest way to get Doctopus is to click this linkthat will take you directly to the web store. Simply click the Free button and the add-on will be added to your Google Sheets account.

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Tiki Toki makes timelines that you can interact with, as well as view 3D options. Upon exploring the resource I think it would be a great way for students to highlight information and connect to other types of media as well. You can also share it online! So it is a great way for students to share and connect with other students online as well as promote good digital citizens!

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Why use Tiki-Toki?

There are loads of timeline makers out there.
What's so special about Tiki-Toki's timeline maker?

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What can I do with Tiki-Toki?

The only limit is your imagination but the following may provide some inspiration

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Take a look at these great timelines that have been created using Tiki-Toki

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Enter your username, email, password and age, agree to our terms and conditions and click the sign-up button. That's it. You'll be creating your first timeline in no time.

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Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker: Beautiful web-based timeline software

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QR Codes can be used to create a digital footprint that can be traced. While we don't always have access to everything students post online, this is one way to make sure their posts and things that they share online are showing they are good digital citizens. While the examples given are for an elementary classroom, you can also use a QR code for high school students to post and access peer information in the classroom as well.

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QR Codes are a great way to connect the physical world with the digital world! They have been around for quite some time now but I have always loved how easy they connect children to various types of media such as audio recordings, videos, text, websites, etc.. The user can scan a QR code using any device with a QR scanner (iOS devices now have a QR scanner built into the camera app). With edtech platforms like Flipgrid (and their AR Codes!), Seesaw and Padlet, QR code generation has never been easier!

Some of my favorite projects I have carried out over the years involve QR codes. Here are just a few:

How to Create QR Kids is one of my most popular posts here on The Techie Teacher® blog. Years ago I blogged about 5 Easy Back to School Technology Projects when QR Kids made their first appearance. Students can create audio recordings, videos or any kind of digital project to link to QR codes to be printed. With the teacher's help, each child takes a full body picture in which they pose as if they are holding the QR code. They paste the QR code on their body and attach a small binder clip (Amazon affiliate link) to their feet to make it free standing (I worked with a 4th grade teacher, Emily Albis, who came up with the genius idea to use these binder clips!). Click HERE to read more about this project.

These End of the Year Smartwatches can be used any time of year! The example below shows a kindergarten class wearing " smartwatches" with QR codes I added that lead to a class slideshow. " It's TIME for 1st grade!" was printed above the QR code. Students wore these home on the last day of school. Other ideas for QR code watches might include: a class Flipgrid, a Padlet wall, class blog/website, class video, etc..

I saw the idea for creating a Flat Stanley Wakelet on Twitter and could not wait to help classes create Flat Stanley 2.0. Click HERE to read more about how these QR codes work to collect images & videos of Flat Stanley's adventures!

This ideas is so simple but really fun! Print QR codes that lead to any student project. Give students their QR code and challenge them to work it into an illustration that goes along with the topic of their project. Below is an example from a kindergarten class. Each student used Seesaw to create a video about their favorite field trip memory. Seesaw has the option for printing a solid black QR code or a black QR code with an image that is generated from the post. I love how this student sample uses the QR code like a window on a bus that is looking in on the student reading their memory.

This last idea comes from @teachinginparadise on Instagram. When she receives her class list in the beginning of the year she makes postcards to send to all of her new students. A QR code is printed on the postcard for students to scan to hear her special message recording.

A similar idea was shared by @asmallworldcalledkindergarten on Instagram. For Christmas she gave each student a copy of Corduroy and a QR code that leads to an audio recording of her reading the story aloud.

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Popplet can be used to brainstorm ideas, create mindmaps, share, and collaborate.

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Glogster allows students (and teachers) to present information in a variety of ways.

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Look at these cool resources on how an English teacher used music to allow students to demonstrate their knowledge in unique ways in their classroom.

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Campbell High School students Aiden Scott (left) and Jarrett Modica in the library recording studio

Photo by Elijah Brown, Campbell High Class of 2020

At Campbell High School in Smyrna, GA, one of the most popular hangout spots is found in the library.

Every day at lunch, students from the large, suburban school 20 minutes outside of Atlanta crowd into a recording studio in the library's makerspace. Most of them are there to record or produce hip-hop tracks.

"The reason they're drawn to it is because they have things they want to say, they have a way that they want to say them, and they're given a lot of license to do that there," says Andy Spinks, the school's library media specialist.

Campbell High is just one of many schools around the country using hip-hop to reach students. Many star YA and children's authors, including Jason Reynolds, say hip-hop influenced their work, and several popular books for young people feature plot lines about the music. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas and My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi are just two examples.

Librarians who add a little hip-hop to their repertoire can help to spark students' creativity and build relationships with those who may be less inclined to visit the library.

In the past, that often meant a well-meaning teacher putting on a gold chain and imitating something you might have seen on in the late '80s. But today, many educators are being more thoughtful about how best to incorporate hip-hop into their lessons.

The popularity of the musical Hamilton, which features rap, along with R&B and more traditional Broadway numbers, has ushered hip-hop into classrooms across the country through its Hamilton Education Program. The initiative provides educational resources connected to the show that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of America's founding fathers and the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

For the past two years, rap has been the top-selling genre of music in the United States.

"It's the language of global youth culture," says Carole Boston Weatherford, the author of several children's books including The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop. Weatherford notes that rapping is a key element of hip-hop culture, along with graffiti, break dancing, and DJing.

Weatherford, who also teaches a course on hip-hop at Fayetteville (NC) State University, calls it a natural fit for the classroom at any level.

"Hip-hop is poetry," says Weatherford. "So why shouldn't we use it to teach children? It should be used in schools because it empowers kids, and it has those same musical qualities that help kids memorize concepts and build reading fluency that all other poetry has."

YA author Elizabeth Acevedo credits hip-hop as one of her earliest influences.

"From rhythm to meter to word choice and sound devices, my work sources from my love of the music regardless of whether I'm writing poetry or prose," says Acevedo, the author of the New York Times -bestselling novel-in-verse , which won the 2019 Printz Award, a 2018 National Book Award, and several other honors. The book tells the story of a Dominican American teenager in Harlem who finds herself through her love of poetry while contending with an overly strict mother.

Acevedo also incorporated hip-hop into her lessons when she worked as an eighth grade teacher in Prince George's County, MD. "I would bring in rap verses to discuss poetic elements or to read alongside the canonical poets," says Acevedo. "I'm not surprised that other people have caught on to the fact that hip-hop music is a rich source of oral storytelling that is super engaging to listeners, readers, and especially, young people. What educator wouldn't want to tap into that?"

Making music and learning

Spinks wanted to give that to his students when he installed a recording studio in his library. With some help from donors in the community, including Dirt Cheep Music, a local shop that sells instruments and music-production equipment, he was able to get everything up and running this past spring.

Spinks focuses on music's power to give his students a voice and help them gain confidence. At the studio, they are learning about things like digital signal processing and analog-to-digital conversion, but the biggest lesson may be in collaboration.

"There's only one microphone, one computer," says Spinks. "[Students] have to either wait or they have to work together."

And, he says, most kids choose to work together.

"One person will start a song and then everybody else will jump on and add a verse," says Spinks "They're collaborating with kids they've never met before they walked in the room."

Songwriting has the potential to strengthen writing skills as well. Sophomore Jarrett Modica (pictured) uses the studio to record his songs about three times a week. He says he likes the opportunity to use professional equipment.

"It's a place where you can just be yourself," says Modica. "It really brought something to Campbell."

When Modica gets behind the mic, the person helping him produce his music is often fellow Campbell student Ariel Bundi, a senior Spinks calls the studio's "producer at large."

Bundi says he's applying to Georgia Tech to please his mom, but he really wants to pursue a career in music.

"I've been in love with music since I was a baby," says Bundi. "What got me into music production was the discovery of hip-hop and rap."

Bundi gravitated to producing because he says he quickly discovered that he "didn't have the voice to become a rapper or a singer."

The 17-year-old has a unique schedule as a dual-enrollment student that gives him lots of free time in the middle of the day to use the studio.

"[The] only time I realize how long I've been in the makerspace is when I get hungry," says Bundi. "Then I go out for lunch, and usually I come back."

Encouraging reluctant readers

At West Boca Raton (FL) High School, librarian Kristine Cannon is preparing for four classes of students to read Tiffany D. Jackson's Let Me Hear a Rhyme, a YA novel about three teenagers in Brooklyn in 1998 who set out to make their murdered friend a big hip-hop star by pretending he's still alive.

"We just thought that the element of the music, the hip-hop, and even the time period would really grab the students," says Cannon. "We thought that it would give us a lot to discuss with them."

These students are enrolled in the school's reading classes, which are reserved for those who didn't pass the state's standardized test in English.

"A lot of them have been in these reading classes since middle school, maybe even elementary school, so the more books that we can get them to finish and do well on, the better," says Cannon.

In preparation for reading the book, Cannon has been gathering resources on hip-hop.

"I know they love the music, but I don't know if they necessarily know a lot about the history of hip-hop," she says.

Figuring out how to use hip-hop to engage students can be difficult if you're unfamiliar with the music.

Libby Gorman, the school library media specialist at Edgewood (MD) Middle School, relied on her library aide to help her figure out how to use rap to spice up her lessons on citation.

"Citation is boring, and it's always going to be boring," says Gorman.

To make it more interesting for her students, she had students learn how to cite songs like the smash hit "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X and "Friend Like Me" from this year's live-action Aladdin movie reboot with Will Smith.

"The rule was they had to cite it before they could play it, but once they cited it, they could play the music," says Gorman, who adds that ordinarily students aren't allowed to play music at school. "That was a carrot to doing the citation. Once they did [it], they'd be playing it and dancing in the library."

Gorman, who acknowledges that she is "not a music person at all," had her aide make sure the music selected was "clean" so it would not run counter to school rules.

Controversial lyrics

She had reason to do so. When using rap music in the classroom, language is often a concern. For students recording and producing their own hip-hop songs in his library's makerspace, Spinks is always "searching for a happy medium" when it comes to lyrics.

"The language that the kids want to use, a lot of it violates the district's rules," says Spinks.

But he also admits he's pretty "hands off" about it. To keep his kids out of trouble, however, he did lay down some ground rules.

Spinks has warned them about lyrics that imply gang affiliation and cautions them to avoid bullying.

"You can do a dis track about Drake if you want to, but don't do one about somebody in this school," says Spinks.

Cannon plans to send a note home to parents about the language their kids will encounter before they start reading Jackson's novel, in which the teenage characters throw around a lot of profanity, including the f-word and variations of it.

While rap music continues to outsell rock and pop music, it still makes some people uncomfortable. Rap has been criticized for its use of profanity. Critics of the genre often accuse hip-hop artists of glorifying violence. Some say they find the music confusing or even threatening.

But Weatherford says the criticism that rap is somehow menacing is rooted in racism.

"It's threatening because it emanated from youth of color," says Weatherford. "Hip-hop gave voice to disenfranchised African American and Latino youth. Those are not necessarily voices that the grown-ups want to hear or that policy makers want to hear, but nevertheless those voices have persisted for 40 years."

Spinks says he hopes that by embracing hip-hop, his students will see that their school, which is 85 percent black and Latinx, while not immune from the racism that permeates society, is in a better place where race relations are concerned.

"Giving kids the opportunity to come in and make hip-hop, I feel like it sends a strong message that this space, this part is not anti-black, you're welcome here, and you're encouraged to express yourself and be yourself," says Spinks, who adds that the music is popular with kids of all races, all levels of academic achievement, and all socioeconomic groups.

Weatherford says anytime an educator can help a student find his or her voice that's a win, and hip-hop is a wonderful vehicle for that.

"Anything we can use in libraries and in the classroom to convey to young people that their stories and their voices are valid and worth telling is very powerful," says Weatherford. "That's what hip-hop does; that's the message that hip-hop sends to youth: 'We hear you.'"
Marva Hinton is a freelance journalist who also hosts the "ReadMore" podcast.

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