Curated OER
Google for Education: Children and Technology: Collaborative Creative Writing
Students collaborate to create a story together at the same time using Google shared document.
Code.org
Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 4
Middle level students delve deeper into computer programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems, to ultimately create games and stories they can share.
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Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 2
For readers with no prior computer programming experience, learners create programs to solve problems and create interactive games or stories to share with others.
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Code Studio: Computer Science: Course 3
During game and story creation, intermediate students delve deeper into programming topics to identify flexible solutions to more complex problems.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Letter to the Mayor [Pdf]
"Letter to the Mayor" is a one page, nonfiction letter written to the mayor by 2000 school children in Chicago. In the letters, the children addressed issues such as trash, gangs, computers, playgrounds, and safer streets. After reading...