Living the collaborative life through an interactive lesson <3
P@$$words! By Adam, Shelby, Madison, and Susie Audience K-2
I want to start by saying that it was an enormous pleasure to work with Shelby, Madison, and Susie for our first action-packed semester lesson. We were grouped because we all have similar tracks at Dominican Univesity to become school librarians. Thus, we have been dubbed the school librarians group for LIS 724: Integrating Technology into Programming, Services, and Instruction. The content for the week revolved around media literacy, digital citizenship, and copyright. Our mission as a group, should we choose to accept it, was to create an interactive lesson about a topic in digital citizenship. Immediately, I thought of the 9 P's associated with digital citizenship and thought that passwords for kindergarteners were our group's destiny. I gave the group my elevator pitch, and 147 seconds later, we had google slides open, ready for our knowledge.
Peardeck was the easy choice for this mission. It pairs wonderfully with google slides. Like it was made for each other. No really. They were made for each other. With that, working with the others in my group was successful for the design thinking process of the lesson. It was necessary to go through and rework our lesson to be delivered with the proper communication that would be most effective for kindergarten only rather than kindergarten through second grade as initially planned. The levels of thinking are just too different, it was decided.
The virtual space our group collaborated in was treated with respect, patience, and grace. During the whole process, our group spent time exploring the technology with each other and designing a lesson that would be used to analyze passwords. Literacy is at the heart of librarianship, so we decided to connect a read-aloud with the content of the interactive lesson. Password, please? by Vahishta Mistry is an approachable children's story about a girl named Manju and her initial exploration of passwords and what they do.
Manju wants to play games on her cousinโs phone. But itโs locked with a password! Here is a book that
Peardeck equipped us with sufficient tools to create an interactive lesson for a Kindergarten grade class to successfully interact with the technology presented and approach concepts of digital citizenship through an introduction to passwords. I am in love with this piece of tech genius. Also, shoutout to my team because we are the future school librarians!
Here is a link to a Youtube video that explains how to start using Peardeck!
How to install the PearDeck AddOn in Google Slides
