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  Resource #1: https://code.org Description: This website offeres pre-made, interactive, scaffolded lessons for students to follow and gain computer and coding skills. These lessons start at a pre-reader level and go right to highschool level.  Impression: I could see how this website would be a great resource for a teacher introducing coding to his/her students. The prescribed lessons are a bit dry but the variety of games ready for students to apply block coding skills to are vast and appealing. There is something there to meet any topic of interest the students may have. This is a solid website resource and something I plan to incorporate into my teaching of coding. Resource #2: Minecraft Teacher Guide Description: This resource is an education guide with embedded links which explain how to teach with Minecraft in the classroom. Includes videos, FAQs, outcomes, answer keys  and adaptations for remote learning. Impression: This resource has the aim to teach not only abo...

To start this blog, I began by brainstorming words that came to mind when I thought of Information Literacy. I re-read sections of  Leading Learning: Standards of Practice for School Library Learning Commons in  Canada to remind myself of some of the skills needed for 21 st  century learners. I also included the skills identified from the   National Council of Teachers of English (NTCE) 21st Century Literacies as outlined by Richardson’s book  Why School  in chapter 5. By this time, my list was over 120 words long and I was no closer to identifying major themes of interest for future pursuit.  To aid me in making sense of this long list, I entered the word list that I had compiled into a word cloud generator. Although there are many available, I made use of worditout.com since it was free and fairly user-friendly, while allowing for some control over text, direction, colour and word emphasis. I’ve included the image below. As you can see the main word...