EDTC 6037 - Team Blog

  How can digital literacy be integrated in Math, Science, and/or Healthful Living classrooms to show teachers' digital competencies and to address ISTE standards for Educators?  I believe the best way to teach digital literacy is to integrate it into the curriculum. Have students use websites, social media accounts, etc to complete assignments and discuss the importance of the way that they use the platform. For example, for math they math be asked to research data and use it to create a graph. In this example you can discuss with students creditable sources and what sites not to use. For healthful living, they may be discussing the importance of exercise. Lots of students are currently into Tiktok, have students create Tiktok videos as PSA's for importance of exercise. In this example you can discuss the importance of privacy and appropriate things to do on videos on social media platforms. For Science, students may have to do research on a topic and be required to create an...

How can we promote digital literacy in math, science, and healthful living classsrooms A good way to promote digital literacy/digital citizenship in math, science, and healthful living classrooms is to have students make infographics using Canva or another similar tool to tell a story with the data that they have collected. For example, a health classroom could collect data on the impact of having a healthy life through nutrition and exercise and gather data from valid sources, and then create an infographic showing the impact through their quantative data. With this, we teach students digital literacy in many ways -- creating a computational artifact with computational tools like Canva, Adobe Spark, etc; searching for reputable sources of information and making sure that the information is correct; making sure that students understand the underlying data when it comes to a study (or in essence, when a article starts with "studies show..." what does that mean?); and teac...

According to the NC Digital Learning Competencies for teachers, teachers will model and teach digital citizenship by the ethical, respectful, and safe use of digital tools and resources that support the creation of positive digital school culture.  It is my belief one of the best ways to teach digital citizenship is to integrate into the curriculum.  Rather than telling the students a list of rules that they are not allowed to do, have them use online tools and teach the correct way to interact on social media. Book Snaps are very popular in the English Language Arts class, but this year I presented teachers with content snaps.  Students can snap pictures of completed math problems and snap them.  This leads to a discussion on what is appropriate to take photos of and share on snap chat.  Also, it leads to having conversations about who is the audience of your social media accounts. In Science, students are often completing research projects.  Having ...

How can digital literacy be integrated into classrooms? Digital Literacy can be integrated into any class if the teacher is using technology. Any time we are technology in our classrooms, we need to ensure that the students are using it properly and being safe in the virtual world. Being a good digital citizen is something that needs to be taught just life manners in real life. According to the powerpoint this week, teachers need to model what it looks like to be a good digital citizen. One thing I have been doing is using Flipgrid in our virtual learning to help give students the chance to collaborate. Each student was given a math question to work out and explain the steps to the class. Other students can then leave comments or ask other questions. This ties in with the ISTE standard from the powerpoint of "Create experiences for learners to make positive, socially responsible contributions and exhibit empathetic behavior online that build relationships and community". ...

Digital literacy and showing teachers digital competencies in Math, Science & healthful living in the classroom could be used with collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, citizenship, character and communication.  Our students will have to face the challenges and threats that come with living with technology. The  ideas and standards complement the concept of digital citizenship, which has also been highlighted by the standards for students created by International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and provide reasons for educators from across disciplines to engage their students in activities that promote civic engagement and  digital citizenship (International Society for Technology in Education, 2016). There are multiple ways for educators to help students develop their abilities to effectively engage in digital communication through in-class  activities and activities that bridge students’ in -school learning and out-of-school experiences...