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Rough Waters: Helping Adolescents Navigate Digital Information Sources

Teaching Sixes February 7, 2021 February 7, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, adolescence, COPP, critical thinking, digital literacy, ISTE 1: Change Agent, ISTE 2: Connected Learner, Learning, social media

How can digital tools effectively help secondary students critically evaluate the credibility, perspective or accuracy of digital sources or information in real time?

The Changing Nature of Research in Higher Education

Katie Clum February 4, 2021 February 4, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Change Agent, Connected Learner, digital literacy, doctoral degree, Higher Education, information literacy, research

Research in higher education looks very different today than it did even ten years ago. Academics who, not so very long ago, were well acquainted with physical library study spaces and large collections of peer-reviewed academic journals, find themselves in a digitized world of research with unprecedented access to information and virtual repositories of human …

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Digital Wisdom & Circumnavigating “The Algorithm”

Katie Clum October 8, 2020 October 8, 202001 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, alternate perspectives, Digital Citizen Advocate, digital literacy, digital wisdom, echo chambers, facebook algorithm, media literacy, news media

In his 2013 essay “From Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom,” author Marc Prensky claims that an important aspect of exercising digital wisdom involves actively seeking out alternative perspectives, and capitalizing on the enhanced access to these perspectives that technology affords. Though I agree that wisdom in any sphere of life is directly associated with actively …

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Incorporating Student Language into Literacy

Mrs. Batschi July 26, 2020 July 26, 202001 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, aave, culturally relevant teaching, Culture, digital literacy, ISTE 3, ISTE for Coaching

During this semester of graduate school, we have been working with ISTE Coaching Standard 3. One of the indicators in this standard has to do […]

Module 1 EDTC 6103 Video Integration into Google Classroom

James April 10, 2017 April 10, 2017Content Knowledge and Professional Growth, Digital Age Learning Environments, digital literacy, EDTC6013, ISTE1, Screencast, Teaching Learning and Assessment, Video, YouTube

During the Spring quarter in the Digital Education Leadership M.Ed. program at SPU we are investigating the ISTE Standards for Teachers. Our first module asked us to reflect on and investigate ISTE Standard 1. The standard led to the question; how can teachers use their knowledge of content, teaching, learning and technology to advance student … Continue reading “Module 1 EDTC 6103 Video Integration into Google Classroom”

Module 2: Teaching Content Curation to Empower Students

James January 30, 2017 January 30, 2017Content Knowledge and Professional Growth, Curation, Digital Age Learning Environments, digital literacy, EDTC6102, ISTE 3, Teaching Learning and Assessment

I have found that most if not all intermediate elementary students really lack the skills to check the credibility of sources derived from the internet. Typically students will type a search term into a search engine, like Google and are then faced with millions of results. Here is a great example of a type of … Continue reading “Module 2: Teaching Content Curation to Empower Students”

Digital Readiness Project: Study of a Public Middle School

aottenad December 5, 2016 December 5, 2016Digital Citizenship, digital literacy, Digital Natives, EDTC6101, ISTE - 4. Professional development & program evaluation c., ISTE - 5. Digital Citizenship a., ISTE - 5. Digital Citizenship b., ISTE - 5. Digital Citizenship c.

Recently, I had the opportunity to interview my principal about the digital readiness of our middle school. The goal was to discover how my institution is ensuring that technology is being used wisely for teaching and learning. The infographic that follows is a visual representation of my findings. Mike Ribble’s nine elements of digital citizenship, … Continue reading Digital Readiness Project: Study of a Public Middle School

EDTC 6104: ISTE Coaching Standard 3 e & g – Digital Age Learning Environments

Liz Ebersole August 23, 2016 August 23, 2016community of practice, CoP, digital education leadership, digital literacy, EDTC 6104, ISTE Coaching Standard 3, ISTE Coaching Standards, networking, PLN, Professional Development

ISTE Coaching Standard 3 provides seven benchmarks for creating and supporting effective digital age learning environments to maximize the learning of all students. My focus is on benchmarks e & g:

e. Troubleshoot basic software, hardware, and connectivity problems common in digital learning environments

g. Use digital

EDTC 6433 – Module 3 – ISTE Standard 3 -Collaborating with Peers

aottenad February 14, 2016 February 14, 2016Collaboration, digital fluency, digital literacy, EDTC6433, ISTE 3, P2 - Enhanced by a reflective, collaborative, professional growth-centered practice, T4 - Informed by technology, V: Integrate technology into instruction & assessment

EDTC 6433 – Module 3 – ISTE Standard 3 – How can I collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation without making them feel insecure or giving up? My demonstrations have sometimes not gone over the way I would have like them to … Continue reading EDTC 6433 – Module 3 – ISTE Standard 3 -Collaborating with Peers

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