CUNY Academic Commons

Hunter College
A rose 🌹 – Getting clarity on what I want to do to improve the artifact – and the activities leading up to sharing it.
A thorn 🧷 – I’m using my artifact in a year-long course, so I have to wait until next Fall to try it again…maybe with my summer ed tech class I could try a trial run, or a bud 🐛 I’m stewing on a resource for…[Read more]

Hi all,

I actually tried out all of the activities in the Unplugged Computational Thinking with my kids (9, 11, 13).  There was much debugging and all of my kids play around with Scratch pretty regularly to share their coding experiences, it was so interesting to see how things did and didn’t transfer to “unplugged” coding to provide directions…[Read more]

First I love the way this content was presented. It felt interactive even though I consumed it as a printed document. I’m a fan of visuals in learning and think they can add to the content in ways that some students would otherwise not be engaged. I enjoyed the various experiences shared and am curious about using Scratch to generate content for…[Read more]

Hi all,

I appreciated the thoughtfulness with which these goals were discussed, data based and even tinkered with as we step in to additionally review what was presented to last year’s cohort.

I really was craving more information around the words “excluded” and “had access to” throughout several materials.  For example, from the executive…[Read more]

In Learning Lab we have teacher candidates working with students in grades 6-12. This summer, Rhonda and I are looking to generate some activities that would be universally accessible, with frictionless entry to design and critical thinking, that will allow us to capture some aspects of problem solving and creativity as well as support teachers in…[Read more]

Hey folks,

In module 3, the link for Artifact Design Task Guidelines gives me a 404 error. Is there another path to the guidelines?

Best,
Virginia

Hi,

Where can I find asynch module 3? It seems like only 0,1, & 2 are posted where I’m looking (the Asynch Modules drop down menu.)

Thanks,
Virginia

Hey folks,

I added a third option – because I like choice.

Option 3 has a balance of individual work and collective discussion and agreement. I also think this new option honors that the dynamics of each group are different and group strength and growth will require different supports.

Here is my slidedeck.

Best,

Virginia

Hello everyone,

Virginia Gryta, Hunter College, Lecturer in Special Education.

I need to first share that I shuffled the deck – which as I went through and encountered cards that I thought might be similar to another I had kept of discarded I wondered if the order I was supposed to encounter the cards for the first time mattered. I did feel that…[Read more]

Greetings Everyone!

My name is Virginia Gryta (she/her) and I teach in the Learning Disabilities Program in Special Education. Grades are posted and summer courses ready to start so, I can pivot to learning with you all!  Rhonda and I are excited to use this time to develop ideas that support critical thinking in both our teacher candidates and…[Read more]