As we wrap up this unusual school year and try to adjust to a summer with more freedom than the last, it’s a good time to think about setting expectations with your children for device use over the summer.
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Category: Digital Learning
Screenagers, Trapped?!, and the Middle-School Years
Two weeks ago our sixth- and seventh-grade after-school theater performers gave us a tour of a middle schooler’s phone from the inside, with all of its potential cruelty and kindness. The performers in Trapped?! reminded us that the “screenage” years are full of opportunities for connection, and fraught with social
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Scratch That! 8th-Graders and Game Design
The Lycée’s Digital Learning Team hosted its annual Computer Science Fair this week in the auditorium gallery. Students of all ages exhibited their work in coding, electronics, game design, making a website and more. The projects on display were just a small sample of what happens on a given school
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Podcasting to Ask Tough Questions
Our fourth graders are following their own curiosity, and their ears, in their new podcast series “Mystère et Boule de Gomme,” with support from their teachers and the Media Lab. Why can’t humanity live in peace? Take a listen…. And, NPR, watch out! A podcast created by 4th grade (CM1) students
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Behind the Scenes in the Broadcast Room
Lights, camera, action! Whether it is your first time to walk through the doors of the Lycée’s broadcast media lab, or your hundredth, the thrill of a busy newsroom never gets old. Downstairs in the York Wing basement, the Lycée’s media lab is equipped with a wall-to-wall green screen, microphones,
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Artificial Intelligence and Education for Today
In mid-October at the Lycée Français de New York, we were fortunate to be in the presence of a real “live” ROBOT—a humanoid machine with memory and language functions—as well as a panel of highly knowledgeable speakers, hosted by our Cultural Center and called, “Artificial Intelligence and the Jobs of
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International Conference on Mobile Language Learning
People around the world will only be more connected as time goes by, and having a second, third, even fourth language will be in demand. Technology has revolutionized language learning, offering students far more opportunities to connect with others and make language learning relevant and fun. Dr. Sonia Rocca, Secondary
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PBL: l’Espagne vous est contée
Students then had to create, edit video advertisements for those products, either inventing or picking one that already exists. the idea was really for them to identify the characteristics and specificities -geographical, natural and cultural- of the regions they were working on. On the day of the exhibition, Mrs. Kaminska
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New York sur les Ondes
Le Lycée Français de New York introduced parcours in the middle school this fall. Developed from a project-based learning approach, these pluridisciplinary classes encourage students to develop their creativity and many different skills working in teams on a final project. In the class, “New York on the Airwaves,” Perrine Le Dûs and Damien
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La place du numérique dans l’école primaire
This article is from the 2015 issue of the LFNY Magazine. Every year in the fall, first and second graders learn how to perform circus-themed activities in the school’s phys-ed (PE) program. “It’s a workshop I especially like because it combines physical exercise with artistic elements and play acting,”
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