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I have a unit on STEM Career Exploration I am willing to share if anyone is interested.  Let me know.

This unit is NGSS aligned and ends with students developing a website sharing out their top 3 STEM or STEAM career favorites along with a 90 second PSA on their favorite career of choice.

I am using Everfi's Endeavor curriculum along with ionfuture.org All resources being used are free! Let's make this the year we collaborate. We can even have our kids meet digitally

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Anyone in NYC interested in joining the Manhattan Maker Ed Cohort please let me know. This is a year long cohort with many opportunities to learn, collaborate and engage with Manhattan teachers who are part of this movement. And yes, there is per session available for participating.

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Padlet use in ELA for a digital gallery walk

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Padlet use in ELA for a digital gallery walk

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Students posted links to their end of unit poetry anthologies and were able to comment on each other's work.

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73 new photos · Album by Lliana Villegas

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We recently introduced Kodable as our new coding platform. Like code.org and codemonkey, we are teaching coding starting from Kindergarten to grade 8th. Kodable is a great website and app we use with our lower grade students. It gives them a more visual step-by-step process of how coding is. Using arrows, students are able to determine how to trasnport an object from one end to another using left,right,up, or down directions.

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We used CREW time to participate and create a few STEM challenges. The students were really responsive to them and enjoyed competing in them. We are hoping to make this more of an occurrence in our building and help create more excitement!

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Listen now to No Such Thing, Episode Eleven: Maker Ed in NYC Schools. In this episode: Veteran educators from urban public schools unpack the promise and practice that has captured many imaginations.

>In this episode: Veteran educators from urban public schools unpack the promise and practice that has captured many imaginations.

After decades of experience in the NYC public school system, these three educators are hopeful that "Maker Education," the field's instantiation of the popular tinker movement re-constituted by the commercial Make Magazine and Maker Faire, holds promise for reforming aspects of how we teach and learn. Dr. Lou Lahanna, Lori Stahl-VanBrackle, and Iliana Villegas don't agree on every aspect of the present or future of Maker Ed, but together with thousands of educators nationally, are writing the playbook as they go. This conversation unpacks the specifics issues that educators face when working to infuse the values and methodology into their schools. The group cite examples of multi-disciplinary project work, and dig into the spaces where they happen.

The show is about learning with technology, the realities and exciting potential, but it's also about youth and the practitioners who support them -- youth developers, museum educators, teachers, mentors, counselors, parents-as they grow their identity, and journey forward.

The show is produced in partnership with City University of New York's Masters Program in Youth Studies (learn more on the School of Professional Studies website) and Mouse, a national youth development nonprofit that believes in technology as a force for good.

Find No Such Thing on iTunes, GooglePlay, and Stitcher. See show notes for all episodes and learn more: nosuchthingpodcast.wordpress.com
Listen now to No Such Thing, PowerUp on UDL with Kate Rosenbloom on mouse.org

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No Such Thing, Episode Eleven: Maker Ed in NYC Schools

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Listen now to No Such Thing, Episode Eleven: Maker Ed in NYC Schools. In this episode: Veteran educators from urban public schools unpack the promise and practice that has captured many imaginations. >In this episode: Veteran educators from urban public schools unpack the promise and practice that has captured many imaginations.

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Learning menus are a great way to incorporate student choice and to differentiate learning. With digital tools, it’s easy to make menus interactive, digital, and more dynamic! Digital Differentiation offers teachers and students many ways to reach all learners.

What are digital learning menus?

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHOICE! With the use of IPADs, learning menus (aka choice boards) are a great form of differentiating learning that gives students a menu or choice of learning activities. Digital learning menus can be used in any grade/content area.

Creating a Tic-Tac-Toe Learning Menu in Google Docs:

One easy way to try out implementing a learning menu using the IPADs is a digital "Tic-Tac-Toe" menu. A digital "Tic-Tac-Toe" can be used for anything from short activities to more long-term projects, both assessment FOR learning (formative) and assessment OF learning (summative).

Remember when you are creating a learning menu to align it with your learning objective! First, you want to make sure the middle square is a non-negotiable, the one activity that you want every student to complete. This could be reading an article, watching a video, add a summary it to a collaborative Google Slide deck where they will also add links to their other projects. Everything in one place!

Color coding on the "Tic-Tac-Toe" menu helps students to guide their learning. Because the middle square is a non-negotiable, you control how they navigate and complete activities on the menu. Every student will do the middle square and one from the blue and one from the yellow.

See example Novel Study Tic-Tac-Toe choice Menu (There is a link on the template to make a blank copy)

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Novel Study Tic-Tac-Toe Menu Choice Board 

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Using MOUSE curriculum to engage students in STEAM projects.

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Using MOUSE curriculum to engage students in STEAM projects.

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Engineers Week is coming....February 18th-February 24th

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Engineers Week is coming....February 18th-February 24th

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Let's think about challenges for students/teachers...How can students solve problems and critically think by leveraging those devices?

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Edtech lessons in action, our story thus far.

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PS96 puts EdTech lessons learned into practice.

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using technology to enable BackChanneling during Socratic Circle

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using technology to enable BackChanneling during Socratic Circle

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All students are in this Socratic Circle. Members outside of the circle take notes on the speaker they are focused on using a shared Google doc to provide feedback.

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Socratic Circle featuring back chaneling

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Students learn to use Google Sheets to complete a survey for a statistics in math class.

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Responsible use of Technology across classrooms = September2017 through January 2018

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Responsible use of Technology across classrooms = September2017 through January 2018

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Various uses of technology. 1)Google classroom students turned in assignments and received teacher feedback. 2)GoogleDocs students created a solution path for math problems using SOLVE problem solving strategy. 3)Students enjoy various coding challenges on Code.org (Minecraft, Disney, & Pixar)

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Highlighting responsible use of technology in the classrooms

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60 new photos · Album by Lliana Villegas

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EdTech Formative Assessment November 2017

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EdTech Formative Assessment November 2017

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Students created a draft of their solution path using SOLVE strategy.  Students received teacher feedback and next steps using Google tools to collaborate digitally.

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A NEW SCHOOL YEAR BRINGS NEW DISCOVERIES.

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Create stunning social graphics - in seconds.

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Makerspace Progression with STEAM projects... = December 14, 2017

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Makerspace Progression with STEAM projects... = December 14, 2017

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PS96 ACT School for the Arts, Collaboration & Technology

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#becauseofyou Part 1 completed = December 13, 2017

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#becauseofyou Part 1 completed = December 13, 2017

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Teachers tell students they are important. Look out for Part2 where the student submit videos of who is important to them in the school community (a highlight of responsible use of technology and cameras in the school community)

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58 new photos · Album by Lliana Villegas

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WAVE Women in Tech Conference = December 2, 2017

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WAVE Women in Tech Conference = December 2, 2017

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We had 9 employees come visit. I got a lot of good feed back from the students, and a lot of good ideas for next time. Students are now using STEM in their vocabulary
when discussing their futures :D

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Once a month introduction to making. Excellent venue for students to engage in STEM activities and its free!

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Excellent ONBOARDING PROCESS at P.S. 96.! Great Job Lliana! Below is a snapshot but please click on the blog for a more comprehensive list for P.S. 96 Onboarding process
LINK TO BLOG

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We have been charged to focus on our Math and Science teachers to encourage them to make "Math & Science" learning more fun and for them to understand these subjects more when they are using the tablets. This website is a great tool for all teachers to use with students to explore STEM careers, find the ones that best match their interests and then have them play their way to their dream STEM future. http://ionfuture.org/

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We have been charged to focus on our Math and Science teachers to encourage them to make "Math & Science" learning more fun and for them to understand these subjects more when they are using the tablets. Here is an example to promote for Math teachers. Please share.  The Math Video Challenge empowers students to be math teachers, video producers, actors and teammates by creating videos that explain and solve challenging real-world math problems http://videochallenge.mathcounts.org/

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WITHOUT A NET THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN AMERICA DOCUMENTARY. Please share this link with your teachers to watch. A documentary about VILS schools.  

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WITHOUT A NET THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN AMERICA DOCUMENTARY. Please share this link with your teachers to watch. A documentary about VILS schools.  

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http://www.digitaldivide.com/?watch=true

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Registration Deadlines https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15wp1xEtpwZSpBxH0enYgogpHBp7k3uxo_x_oRyNrPS0/edit#gid=0