Chapter Thirty-two: 2021 Reflections with Sarah and Kim
It’s almost 2022! Time to reflect on 2021, Once Upon a Tech Style… with guessing games, challenges, and a good old fashioned lightning round :) Thanks for listening this year, and for being a part of our community at the intersection of technology and literacy. We’re so glad you’re here! PS: We want to know - if you had to choose one word to describe YOUR 2021, what would it be??
Resources
2021 Personal Highlights:
2021 Book Highlights:
Other
- Kim: Bringing computer science education research into K-8 classrooms: A podcast
- Sarah: Cultural Connections with Hummingbird course (coming soon) and Mr. Fitz’s businesses in the news!
2021 Book Highlights:
- Kim: We Are Watching Eliza Bright
- Sarah:
- Most readable: Daisy Jones and the Six
- Can’t get them out of my head: No One is Talking About This, The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Best children’s books: Starfish, Maybe He Just Likes You, the Canyon’s Edge, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
- Honorable mentions: You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self Love (both audiobooks are amazing!)
- Join us at MozFest (March 7-10) - a one of a kind festival that's a whirl of people and ideas, sparks of curiosity and connection, and a vibe that is buzzing, dynamic and full of positive energy.
- Be on the lookout in January for Sarah’s Cultural Connections with Hummingbird course from the Pathfinders Online Institute. In the meantime, check out Social Emotional Learning with Robotics.
- Twitter: OnceUponTech
- Facebook: OnceUponaTech
- Instagram: OnceUponaTech
Other
- What is it like to be a teacher right now? Teachers say Shootings and Mental Health Challenges Have Made This Year the Hardest Yet
- THESAURUS.COM
Music credits
- Music from filmmusic.io
- "Funkorama" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
