Knowing the significance of digital literacy for students, it's important to think of how I can expose my students to the skills they need to interact with information online properly. I can't expect my students to have these skill but exposure in our daily routine might make a difference. Part of the common sense media description of digital literacy is the ability to effectively find, identify, evaluate, and use information. When students go online, it is important for them to recognize their role and understand how to find and use information correctly. These are critical thinking skills that will serve them both online and in offline interactions. It can sometimes be difficult to put time aside for lessons focusing on digital literacy alone, but there are things that I can do to integrate it in what I’m doing in the classroom to give students more exposure and practice digital-literacy skills. Some things can be done at school and others can be shared at home to continue student application of skills. Common sense media offers many ideas for students to learn both at home and at school. Using google classroom, I plan to have students experience some of these resources on their own independent time through google classroom assignments. Through their google assignments and comments I plan to have students practice respecting each other’s ideas and opinions by noticing that what they comment and contribute in the google classroom has an effect on their peers. I also plan on posting different resources they can work on independently. Google classroom is also a powerful communication tool that parents can have access to. I want to explore how I can share resources and give parents access to our classroom so they can continue to help their child with digital literacy. The fact that their parents are able to see their comments might also make them understand that there are always people that can see their online presence, even when they think it’s not public to others.
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Kayla Bryant
2/26/2018 04:41:04 pm
I just responded to Jeff's blog and had very similar thoughts about integrating technology lessons into other curriculum. It makes it so much easier to teach this way when we have so much else going on in our classrooms! I need to look more into google classroom, I wasn't aware that you could get parents on there to see student work too.
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Scott Marsden
2/27/2018 04:55:05 pm
Jose,
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Jose,
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Heather
2/27/2018 08:16:45 pm
For a few months now my students have to share their digital work with two other students before submitting it to me. What a game changer! The conversations and peer review have been amazing.
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