The Perfect Mystery Series That Promotes Critical Thinking & Digital Citizenship Skills...The Cyber Sleuths Series From Capstone & ISTE!

 

Our friends at Capstone and ISTE have an exciting new series coming out on August 1st!  

It's the Cyber Sleuths series, a new mystery series, written by Natasha Deen and illustrated by Mariano Epelbaum, that promote critical thinking and digital citizenship skills. It's the series that I can't wait to bring to our library and classroom this fall.  

As a librarian and teacher, I love that each book ties into real-life uses of technology and media literacy skills, such as online research, social media, and using digital tools. It will give our students a great place to learn and think about various media literacy skills, while also giving us a place to tie in important conversations and learning activities. 

And one of the best parts is that at the back of the book students will find the Cyber Sleuths Code which is connected to the seven ISTE Student Standards. The Cyber Sleuths are the perfect way to prepare and teach our students how to navigate the digital world they are part of every day, while reading exciting stories they love, too!

Capstone also shares this online, 

Meet the Cyber Sleuths, a worldwide, online network of tech-savvy kids wired-in and ready to take on the internet’s worst scams, fakes, and bad actors. With high-tech tools and big-time data, they combat misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation circulating in their communities. Created in partnership with ISTE, this action-packed chapter book series is sure to entertain while at the same time equipping readers with critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to identify credibility in the information they consume.

Capstone is excited to partner with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to publish a special collection of children’s books promoting digital citizenship awareness and the positive and creative use of technology and digital tools. The collaboration connects our engaging storytelling with ISTE's research-based best practices on technology use in schools, empowering educators to have positive conversations around using technology to create and problem solve. Explore our growing collection of children's books!

In the Cyber Sleuths Educator's Guide, you will find Cyber Sleuths Code and amazing....

...discussion questions, extension activities and more for each of the four titles. 

You can click here to go to this interactive choice board which includes a preview of The Super Berries Scam, the educators guide, poster, and crossworld puzzle.  And the purple button at the bottom will take you to the Cyper Sleuths series at capstonepub.com 

With Digital Citizenship Week coming up October 14-18, 2024, I am planning a whole celebration around this series, and the others within this collection including Sonia's Digital World and Exploring AI.  You will find all of these on the Capstone and ISTE partnership page here. 

Be A Guest On Sesson 9 of the Future Ready Librarians Podcast Series, Friends. We Would Love To Hear About and Celebrate Your Work.

 

We are getting ready to kick off Season 9 of the Future Ready Librarians Podcast! 

Over the last eight seasons, I have welcomed so many wonderful librarians, educators and industry leaders to share their stories, passions and to discuss important and relevant topics to all of us as we lead within and from our libraries. 

You will find the Leading From The Library podcast page here. 

As I get ready to start recording Season 9, I am looking for new guests to join me. 

If you have a topic and story you would like to share and talk about, please reach out by emailing me at shannonmcclintockmiller@gmail.com and let me know. 

I can't wait to celebrate and share your stories and work, friends. 

A New Follett Content Story Corner With Cedar Pruitt As She Shares Her Debut Book, Fire Flight, A Wildlife Escape.

 

In the special new Follett Content Story Corner, Cedar Pruitt reads her debut picture book, Fire Flight, A Wildlife Escape, published with Capstone.  

This book is about the journey of a screech owl that fled the flames to ride along with a firefighting helicopter during the 2020 California Creek wildfire. 

You will find this Story Corner choice board here. It includes the video of Cedar reading Fire Flight and a link to the book and Educator's Guide that can be found on Titlewave. 

You will find more exciting author interviews, reading and discussions here, friends.