This is the new wave, the next step of where we're going with the transformation in the middle schools. At Hungry Creek, we've gone through a grant process and we're truly trying to change our learning environment. Total school, but start through our library.
and our media center to provide virtual reality opportunities, to provide some of the things that kids are doing with coding associated with Spheros, with OzBots, because that's truly that next step in innovation that where they're using the critical thinking and problem solving to provide those tests, but in hands-on real life situation that's going to then push us forward, we know in the next steps in the real world. I like the fact that it's really easy to code and then when you get into it you can do more advanced things and people will be able to see it and comment on it and make it their own. My dad told me if I'm a coder when I grow up I can wear t-shirts to work and bring all my collectibles to work.
It's really awesome. I get bored of just doing notes and quizlets and I just wanted to try something different to see if my kids that are very creative would just branch off from there and then even my... non-creative kids can pick up from my creative ones.
So it was like more of them learning together without even me having to be involved. Because what happened then was a kid that's very good in the Spanish, but lacks the creativity, got together with someone to match that. And both of that combination just gave me some awesome projects.
Criado for Mariamejá. As a culminating activity for our Colonial America unit, I asked students to create something to help other students review. They could choose any of the three regions of the colonies.
They could work with whomever they want. wanted and they had no other specifications on what the final product needed to look like. Controlled chaos ensued and we had students creating scratch products. We had students creating things in Tinkercad.
We had some students, all boys, working together to create Minecraft villages that they then used Screencastify and created tours. Speed, one of the three boats that they used to get to GameStop. When they were given the opportunity, many students chose to try something new and figure out something that they didn't know before.
Well, I think it's just the opportunity to open so many doors for our kids today that don't have the opportunity to go to some of these places. The example of going to a rainforest and talking about biomes and how that relates to... seventh grade in science and some of the SOLs that we're going through, it gives them that real-life opportunity experience to take part in there, to truly connect that learning and teaching that's taking place so that they have a better idea and understanding of what's going on.
And I feel and I'm so pleased for our kids at Hungry Creek that are going to have the opportunity to take part. We've got to be bold. We've got to be brave. We've got to be free.
You gotta believe in sight, and will and shine. We can be bold, we can be musty. It starts with you and me. It starts with you and me. There's something special that I've learned, it's together we can change the world.
Everybody's got something they can bring. When you take a look inside yourself, do you wish that you were something else? But who you are is who you need to be.
Sometimes it's hard to find yourself, but it's worth it in the end. in your heart is where it all begins. We gotta be bold. We gotta be brave.
We gotta be free. We gotta get loud, making that change. You gotta believe.
We'll look deep inside, and we'll rise up and shine. We can be bold. We can be brave.
Let everyone see it starts with you and me.