PiedMont Celebrates DiGital Learning Day 2015

Students Choose from 2 #DLDay offerings

Since 3.14.15 is "Pi Day of the century" Piedmont's Digital Learning Day Digi-dine Lunch theme this year is "Pi and DIY"!  Students will also take part in the multilingual multicultural selfie challenge. Read on for more about each of the   Digital Learning Day activity choices.

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"Everyone Matters" selfie Challenge

 Piedmont is  connecting Digital Learning Day to "Everyone Matters Day" by letting the students practice digital citizenship to create a positive digital footprint by participating in the  #IAM Selfie campaign. 

We will have an Everyone Matters #IAM selfie booth set up in Piedmont's cafeteria. Students who have their signed CMS photo permission slip can  take a selfie with a cutom-made or ready-made sign (example #Iam a maker!).  Thanks to Ms. Hogan Hamer, the signs are available in multiple languages!  

Ms. Gurthie  will use the selfies posted to social media that day in a collage and video for the official Everyone Matters Day on April 2nd.

This project uses social media to affirm the individual, create a positive digital footprint, and celebrate the diversity of our own community just as our Piedmont IB Community and Service students have done already for Malawi via the #Piedmontwalkfored campaign.

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 "Pi and DIY" Digi-DiNE 

Students can increase their own knowledge in of the DIY offerings at Piedmont's  DIY and Pi DigiDine.  The lunch is an annual Digital Learning Day tradition at Piedmont. 

Now it its third year, this year's theme  is "Pi and DIY"  because the QR codes  posted at lunch tables and around the cafeteria will link to Pi Day and DIY maker activities from sewing to snap circuits, calligraphy to cad for 3D printing.  

Students can use their BYOT devices to lunch and learn. Interested students can take it a step further and earn patches at DIY.org for the skills they develop in our makerspace, in class or at home.

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For Students:
Everyone Matters Day: http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/studentspace/celebrate-everyone-matters-day
Make Something: DIY and Passion-Based Learning: http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/studentspace/ingenuity-creativity-and-inspiration
Piedmont Makerspace offerings: http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/studentspace/category/makerspace

For Teachers:
Everyone Matters Lesson Plans:
http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/teach-your-students-that-everyone-matters-lesson-plan-ideas
Introducing Maker Project to Students:http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/lesson-ideas/maker-movement-how-to-introduce-a-project-to-students
Starting a MakerSpace at Your School: http://piedmontpd.weebly.com/piedmont-pd/intro-to-makerspace