Technology Achievement Program

Forewords: As the former head of the NYC Department of Education Office of Instructional Technology and the current president of the ISTE Technology and Literacy Special Interest Group. I visited Mr. Carideo’s class last year with curiosity about the state of technology education in NYC. I met vibrant engaged and fluent students using various technology tools for television, pod, graphic arts, and gamestar design. Mr. Carideo’s love for the written word and his expertise in film making and journalism flavored his warm approach to engaging students in technology.

It is no surprise that Mr. Carideo, a superb collaborator has managed in this collection to tap his colleagues Dr. Reissman, Ms. Gillespie and Mr. Grzelecki’s passion for literacy.

Mr. Carideo successfully piloted an online podcast where students from last year’s 6th grade shared their author sites. Mr. Grzelecki was fabulous at engaging his informational literacy students in actually posting to the Classroom Robotics blog to make informational literacy come alive for them.

Mr. Carideo models the best elements of technology educators’ roles as teaching and leading the embrace of CCSS standards for rigor, fun and real world learning.

Mark Gura President of ISTE technology and Literacy Special Interest Group As president of the Pennsylvania Social Studies Council, I have been a dedicated follower of Mr. Carideo’s DNN television show which embodies key CCSS SS/History literacy standards and makes listening and speaking as well as short research come alive.

It is a joy to see how Mr. Carideo infuses his SS background into maps and timelines plus short research on the fictive Ivan Gorilla based on the actual Ivan of the Atlanta zoo.

Mr. Carideo has been awarded the President’s Award for his work in multimedia for 2013.

I cannot wait for him to share some of these projects with our Pennsylvania educators eager to use technology to address CCSS standards with fun and real world skills.

David Keller Trevaskis, President of the Pennsylvania Social Studies Council I am not an expert in technology, yet as Chair of the York College Teacher Education Department, I am always eager to identify new techniques to use technology as an integrative literacy tool. As I read through these writings, it was a joy to learn how Mr. Carideo worked with author sites to build deep literacy, research and speaking and listening connections for students and ELA teachers. His project done jointly with Dr. Reissman on Ivan-a Newbery Award winning book, takes this book from fiction to sad humane fact. The range of student responses and use of the engaging pictures to tap student engagement in all classes, plus collaboration by Ms. Gillespie, makes this an exemplary project.

I rarely blog, but Mr. Grzelecki’s Classroom Robotics 660 students engaged my attention.

Bravo, Mr. Carideo Dr. Lindamichelle Baron Chair of the York College Department of Teacher Education