Using and Understanding - click image for detailed view
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This week will focus on the ability to effectively and creatively engage with digital tools in classroom instruction. Finding the tools that fit the purpose, intention and pedagogical focus is the first challenge. Evaluating each tool's affordances and efficacy requires a focus on problem solving and creating. Confidently exploring, innovating and analyzing creative solutions with digital approaches, techniques and content is essential to making informed and critical decisions. Consider how resources shared in Cube for Teachers, or shared with a Creative Commons license, can influence our use and understanding.
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Stepping back to take an informed look and establish a critical viewpoint can shape your use of digital technologies. As you explore and tinker with apps, software, and hardware, question the affordances and efficacy of the digital resources you are using.
What works best for student learning? What doesn't work well and why? Why did this tool create these results? How did my teaching or my biases influence the outcomes? At the end of this week, you will be able to:
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Digital Literacy Skills - Click image to examine image
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The All Aboard graphic image is designed for higher education but much is applicable to work done in K-12 education. Where do you find connections to your own teaching experiences. Follow each of the coloured lines to see which skills are included in each group.
Take a closer look at this map from the interactive version found HERE. Watch the short video clips at the beginning of each of the coloured subway lines on the image. Follow each line to see what elements are included. As you travel around this image, find locations that are familiar to you. What are they? What areas are foreign or unfamiliar territories? How can this map shape your critical digital literacy journey as a teacher? How does this map apply to your work with students in the classroom? |
Readings
Click image to link to Infographic about Creative Commons
- *The five resources of critical digital literacy: A framework for curriculum integration, Hinrichsen & Coombs, Section on Using and consuming as well as Figure 3
- What is Creative Commons?
- 10 Things About Copyright by Helen DeWaard
Activities
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What tools and resources have influenced your critical digital journey into teaching, both positive and negative? How can creative commons licensing support you to find, apply, problem solve and create with a variety of digital resources?
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Creative Commons - digital literacy and copyright in education
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I created a slide show in Buncee (something I had not used before and wanted to try). Here is the presentation.
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Cube for Teachers - critical digital literacy through curation
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Learn more about Cube for Teachers from Sue Kwiecien. Check out the Cube for Teachers blog site.
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There are more videos available on the Cube for Teachers YouTube playlist. You can also link to them on Facebook and Twitter.
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