Week Nine

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My teaching 'PERSONA'

This week you will examine how digital identity connects to your teaching persona as well as how to project your persona in positive ways to help build future job related endeavours. The challenges of roles and perspectives for teachers will be explored. Building connections is an essential starting point. Reviewing and reflecting on course content, activities and learning will provide a way to capture and collate for professional purposes.

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Readings

• Media Smarts Canada, Mapping Digital Literacy Policy and Practice document, pgs 43 to 54 
• Ontario College of Teachers, Professional Advisory - Use of Electronic Communication and Social Media

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Activity - CHOICE
​Word cloud or Visual statement

WORD CLOUD - Create a word cloud to represent your professional and personal critical digital literacy skills. Review the elements presented in each of the weeks of this course. Combine skills, tools, attributes and issues into your word cloud creation. You can use standard images or import your own image for this creation.

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Actions

• Post in D2L discussion forum

​How has your understanding about critical digital literacy changed as a result of the readings, activities and conversations? What are some critical digital literacy skills you have acquired?  Where will you begin when you go out to your next placement experience? What skills do you hope to improve as a result of this work? 

• Respond to two classmate's posts
• View and comment on the final creations (word cloud/ visual poster) crafted by members of your group - in SLACK
• Complete and submit Part 5: Reflection and self assessment of Inquiry as the conclusion to your inquiry project. Post the link and/or the document in the D2L dropbox for this task.

VISUAL POSTER - Create a visual poster (two samples presented) demonstrating your teaching persona and how it exemplifies your critical digital literacies. This could be incorporated into future job application packages to showcase your skills as a digitally and media savvy educator. These do not need to be done electronically but should be shared in D2L within your group space.