As teachers at any grade level, our days are full with planning lessons, gathering materials, making copies, writing and implementing IEP plans, meetings, and not to mention being in the right frame of mind before our Teaching day begins. With all this in our forefront, I have been reflecting on how to make time to include teaching digital literacy to my students with emotional disturbance.
I plan to set time aside during 1st period, every other Friday, to teach lessons on digital literacy. The students in this class are not as experienced using the internet as the students in my other classes, for this reason these students are more likely to follow and explain instructions, if it means having more access to the use of Chromebooks. At this point, I plan to borrow or “tweak” the lessons from Common Sense Media (9-12), in conjunction with the implementation of other useful educational sites to help me prepare for the upcoming lessons on digital literacy.
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Jose Cerda
2/25/2018 07:55:57 pm
I'm sure your students will appreciate and benefit from the lessons you're planning. It's great that we have all these resources at our disposal but I agree we have to make some changes to fit our population. How do you find your students' response to technology in the classroom?
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Maria Dowling
2/26/2018 09:20:43 pm
It is difficult to make time to teach these lessons along with everything else we have to do. I like your idea of starting with just one of your periods. I also think that the lessons on Common Sense Media are great! I can see how you might need to tweak them to fit your classroom population though. Do all of your students have access to Chromebooks?
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Scott Marsden
2/27/2018 05:23:50 pm
Sounds like a play to use Common Sense every other Friday. Have you also considered embedding digital literacy into what you are already teaching?
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Jeff Albertazzi
2/28/2018 10:27:04 am
I think it is awesome to set aside some time. This is my problem, finding the time. I think it is so important for the High school kids to have an understanding there digital footprint. Next year I am going to try and start the year off with digital citizenship then embed the other skills in my units/projects.
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