EDTC 6037 - Team Blog

Professional Development I originally had planned to create a flipped classroom PD in a hybrid style, with parts of the PD being online/asynchronous & parts of the PD being in-person discussions/workshops. However, with the pandemic & the sudden change to focusing on remote learning, there was no way that teachers or the administration would be willing for me to do such a PD. Most of the teachers were focused on getting stuff to their students/adjusting to the new paradigm of working from home, and I was swamped as a tech facilitator with making sure that students had devices and internet connections in order to do work. Instead of doing a PD on a flipped classroom, I instead moved my PD to a more generalized plan of supporting teachers based on their individual classroom needs and activities. For example, I assisted the atheletic trainers with the basics of Canvas & helped them with transitioning what would be activities directly observed by the coaches to activities tha...

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...

Hyperdocs was the professional development that I had planned for my PD implementation.  My goal was to present this PD during the teachers' already scheduled PLC time.  I usually offer professional development to them once a month.  We were going to increase those times to bi-monthly for this PD. I wanted to do it during PLC times rather than after school based on my reading from the text of Hew and Brush that stated that a lack of time was one of the most significant factors that teachers face.  By having them to complete this during that time, I was able to preserve their after school time, and I had hoped that teachers would be more willing to learn and excited.  I was only going to provide the PD to the second-grade teachers.  I had picked them because our K-2 school will be transitioning to Chromebooks, and I wanted to use them as the digital leaders in the school the following year. When COVID19 closed, our schools and teachers were scrambling to c...