Seesaw for Family Engagement “We have 50 years of research showing that what families do matters. Whether it’s loving school, college access, good attendance, or academic success, family engagement has positive correlations with all sorts of indicators.” – Dr. Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D. . There are many studies about the academic and social-emotional benefit to […]
Unit by Design For our EDCT 6102 course, we were tasked with using the Unit by Design framework (UbD) to plan a lesson or unit that incorporated digital citizenship into our classroom. UbD has you start with identifying desired results, determining acceptable evidence and then planning the learning and instruction. This backwards planning is […]
For Module 5 in my EDTC 6102 course, I wanted to explore tool WeVideo as a mode to promote students communicating clearly and expressing themselves in creative forms (ISTE student standard 6). My experience with WeVideo is limited. I’ve seen Elementary students use WeVideo to create and edit digital videos and wanted to explore […]
STEAM is a term I am hearing a lot in education today. STEAM education refers to bringing the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math in a way that allows students to apply knowledge from two or more the disciplines to solve an issue or problem. STEAM gives students a 21st-century approach at learning […]
“The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be the world leaders in everything else.”-Harold R. McAlindon. I read this quote in the book, Nurturing Young Innovators: Cultivating Creativity in the Classroom, Home and Community by Laure McLaughlin and Stephani Buchai. It hit something deep in my teaching heart. Children are curious and naturally, […]
My journey to find strategies could be used to teach students how to effectively find and evaluate resources found online to aid their research and scaffold(s) to help students organize their research (as inspired by ISTE student standard 3). Let me start by first painting a scenario of a PBL project that I led my […]
Empowered Learner The past week in my DEL master’s program our cohort was focusing on ISTE Student Standard 1- Empowered Learner. It states, “Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences”. This standard requires students to take an active role […]
My mission as a digital education leader is to empower all students to be knowledgeable, productive and reflective digital citizens. Guiding principles: Technology integration is important in preparing students with 21st century skills. Digital citizenship should to be taught throughout subjects, domains and grades. Mindfulness and reflection should be practiced to create a healthy digital […]
Digital Readiness Reflection At the end of my first quarter in the Values Ethics and Foundations in Digital Education (EDTC 6101) I’ve gained insight into what it means to be a digital citizen. Mike Ribble’s Nine Elements of Digital Education describes norms of responsible behavior with regard to technology use. Ribble’s Nine Elements of Digital […]
