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 Second Graders Learning Computer Programming at Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School

5/6/2014

 
When you enter Jill Rickert’s room you quickly find out what is going on in the world of the 7 to 8 year old.  Some kids are wearing that bright green that many people wear to support a cause.  Many of the girls have chipped or chewed blue sparkly nail polish and the boys, some of them, just walk about with their shoes always untied.  I just tied some boy’s sneaker yesterday.  

Typically I enter Jill Rickert’s room around 9:30, which is right after snack time.  I know it is after snack time because the carpet I sit on is often littered with graham cracker crumbs or little pieces of granola bar wrappers.  I go to Mrs. Rickert’s room to teach her second graders the fundamentals of computer programing and math.  Second graders learning how to program computers, can that be true?  Well, yes...it is true.  With the help of iPads and the app, “Hopscotch”, students are learning things, interesting things--and they seem to enjoy it.  Students are learning how to make the avatar of their choosing draw a square, a rectangle and just yesterday, students drew circles.  To draw a square students need to know that squares have 4 equal sides and four equal angles.  The whole concept of a 90 degree angle is really not something they are taught until they are older.  My colleague, Mark Carls, and I have taught students how to draw a square and to draw a diagonal line in the square.  To do this, students had to learn about rotating a certain angle and specifically they had to figure out what half of 90 degrees is.  

Students have had some real “aha moments.”  I recall a day a couple weeks ago when a student created a square, which was the task or prompt I had given the students.  To keep the student learning, thinking and active, I asked her to “make the lines of her square thicker.  She made a mistake.  She changed the line thickness by moving over the “change line width” block to the end of her code.  She could not figure out why it would not work.  Eventually, after thinking it through, she realized that when you change your code at the end, nothing happens because nothing is being executed at the end of the code.  She realized that if she moved the “change line width” to the front of her code it worked.  I heard the student, who was asked to get ready to go to gym, get up, walk over to Mrs. Rickert and say, “I figured it out all by myself.”  You could just feel the confidence and self-esteem in this child grow. 

According to statistics at code.org, by the year 2020, there will be one million more computing jobs than there will be students to fill them.  We need to teach our students programming.  It will prepare them to get jobs that either don’t exist yet or already exist but are just unknown.  For many people just the words computer programming sends a chill of fear up and down their spine.  If we continue to teach students from a young age computer programming, that “chill of fear” will be a thing of the past.          

By: Rick Weinberg, CA BOCES Model Schools and Technology Integrator at Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School
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Physical Educators Form Collaborative Learning Community

4/4/2014

 
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Through the generosity of a PEP Grant awarded to the Portville and Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School Districts, physical educators from across the region have been gathering over the last year as a Collaborative Learning Community.

With meetings alternating between Houghton College and the Olean Main Center, teachers have had time to explore best practices and strategies both inside and outside of the physical education classroom setting.  PE teachers have heard presentations on DASA/bullying, law issues in sports and athletics, SLO’s and APPR, and the academic benefits of physical education.  In the gym, they’ve shared lesson and warmup ideas, including ways to integrate technology in education, and have headed outside to explore Houghton’s Ropes Course.  

Together, they have established a Weebly to share information online and have been given access to a Physical Educators email list-serve.  Our hope is that they are able to establish collegial relationships that extend outside of our workshops and improve their practice on a regular basis.

The next Active PE Forum is scheduled for Friday, May 30th at Houghton College.  To register, please contact Laurie Sledge at 376-8357 or [email protected].

CA BOCES Digital Kids - 24/7 Student and Teacher Access

3/6/2014

 
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Students and teachers (of COSER 501 member districts) can access hundreds of thousands of digital resources using CABOCES Digital Kids.  

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Users may login to CABOCES DIGITAL KIDS to search clips and images or pass through to:
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The Technology Summit - Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School

2/4/2014

 
October 25th was a different kind of Superintendent’s Day for the teachers at Cattaraugus-Little Valley High School (CLV).  Instead of traditional meetings, teachers participated in a Technology Summit, where they were able to discover and test out new pieces of technology in which the District and Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES had invested.

Starting with an opening presentation on technology in education, Brian Crawford, Program Manager of Learning Resources at BOCES, and Scott Michienzi, Director of Technology at CLV, framed the day for the teachers, explaining how they would have three one-hour sessions in the morning, during which they could select from targeted workshops.  These workshops included “Using Google Docs to Track Data” by BOCES Staff Specialist Mark Carls, “Web 2.0 Tools and Streaming Video” by Brian Crawford, “New and Cool Updates in PowerSchool” by Scott Michienzi, beginner and intermediate sessions on utilizing iPads in classrooms by Erie 1’s Rob Miller, and “Highlighting Apex Learning and Adobe Connect” by CA BOCES’ Betsy Hardy.
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Morning Announcements at Cattaraugus-Little Valley Elementary

11/18/2013

 
The permanent Distance Learning station in the Catt-LV Elementary Library is turned on and ready to go!  Two reporters from the 4th grade (Cameron Kelley and Aaron Gross) are poised and perusing the announcements that Librarian Lisa LaQuay has put together  while the trained, veteran Student Council member and the rookies (3rd and 4th graders Haley Dorman, Tara Ruper, and Macy Pritchard) look on.
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