Week Seven

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This week we'll take time to analyze, interrogate, deconstruct and select a variety of digital teaching resources for future use in classroom instruction and professional learning. Begin by selecting a curricular or teaching focus. Review resources found on the lists of digital resources linked below.  Last week you examined one curation tool - Cube for Teachers. This week you'll analyze and curate a small collection of resources as a beginning point, selecting ones that are relevant to your teaching practice, along with related references and links. Consider how these resources will help you teach a specific topic or apply technology to benefit student learning outcomes. Here, we'll focus on ONE curation tool and one curricular area to help make this week's activity meaningful and purposeful. We'll use Cube for Teachers as your curation tool.

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Choice and Voice

Concept map of essential critical digital literacies when ANALYZING

At the end of this week, you will be able to:

• deconstruct and analyze web resources for the purpose of curating for teaching with and about critical digital literacy
• criticize and prioritize web searches using a focused approach to minimize distraction and maximize efficiency
• select and rate digital tools and resources for personal and professional purposes by curriculum area, age/grade appropriateness and affordances for ALL learners
• examine ownership and authorship of web resources with and for students using and applying critical digital literacy skills
• summarize and review inquiry projects to provide feedback

Examining collections of resources - find five to save and share

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Use these two repositories of digital resources to explore and tinker with tools you've tried before, and examine tools you've never seen before. The digital landscape is full of potentially powerful tools to use with students, but a critical stance is required to ensure the tools will improve and support student learning. Scan through the collections linked here and FIND FIVE to curate for your own use as a teacher. You can create your own Padlet OR collect using other curation options such as Pinterest, Symbaloo, or even a Google spreadsheet. Share the link to your collection with your Slack group.

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Readings and Activities

• Hinrichsen & Coombs Section on Analyzing and Figure 4

• SCAN: Kathy Schlock's Guide to Everything - Critical Evaluation of Information
• SCAN and watch any of the one minute video tutorials to code break, make sense, and use ZOOM video conferencing.

• Curate a collection of FIVE digital resources you hope to use in your teaching. Use your  Cube for Teachers account and connect with others in the Cube.
• Post the links to your curated collection in the Cube -Connect with your instructor  
• Participate in a Zoom video chat with some of your classmates. (Link and details will be emailed and also announced in D2L.)

Actions

• Post in D2L discussion forum. 

​When have you deconstructed digital resources and critically interrogated affordances before selecting to engage with that particular tool? (e.g. "I had reservations about using Pinterest because of a bias on my part about how I thought this resource was used by educators. Once I saw the ease of use and ability to collaborate, collect resources with others, I have become a more active Pinterest user.")

What did you learn from this process about your biases, needs, interests or concerns when starting to use a new digital resource?

How can you teach students to critically analyze their use of digital resources from your particular teaching position - grade level, subject, focus of study?

• Respond to ONE post in D2L​

Inquiry Project

This week you will reveal your critical digital inquiry projects. 

• Post the link to your Inquiry Project in your Slack group channel
• Submit your Inquiry Project Summary in D2L

Your Slack group will review your inquiry project and provide some insights and feedback. As part of your commitment to collaboration and learning, please provide feedback to your group-mates in Slack using models of effective feedback that you've used as a teacher. ​

from L. Lipsky