This document provides guidance for teachers on developing digital literacy skills in the classroom. It begins by outlining challenges teachers face with technology integration due to lack of training, support and reliable infrastructure. It then provides suggestions in three main areas: planning approaches to start small and focus on objectives, creating meaning through speaking, writing and presenting using digital tools, and making meaning through listening, reading and viewing online content. Specific tools are recommended for different activities. The document concludes by suggesting ways to reduce and reuse online resources, where to find additional support, and challenges teachers to try one of the suggested digital activities.
4. Meanwhile, back at the chalk face
• Connectivity within schools – how reliable is the WiFi?
• Some BYOD/No BYOD/Labs/Cows/Hubs/Tubs/Breakouts
• The “tech” person is teaching
• It worked at home ...
• I’ve had no training and …
• now I don’t have time to upskill
• I’ve been offered some/little/no PD
• It’s hard enough keeping up with our data management
system(s)
• Every time I get used to something, they change it!
Source:flickr
7. Starting gate: Planning Approaches
• Pick one unit, one class, one new thing a term (and share)
• Start with the OBJECTIVE
• To analyse themes in …
• To write a narrative with clear structure …
• To develop characterisation skills ….
• To create a presentation showing …
• To apply film techniques …
• To reflect on author/director’s purpose
• To make self to text connections
• Start the old fashioned way – A3 paper
• What do you already know?
• Who do you have access to?
8. Digital literacy is C21 literacy
• Aim for C21 learners to work together
• Then evaluate sources
• Then synthesise information collected
• Then represent ideas creatively
ICT enables this!
10. Speaking
Starters form an opinion:
• Ted Talks - Eman Mohammed (Courage), Christopher Bell (Female
Superheroes), Adora Sitvak (what adults should know about learning)
• YouTube – Boy Racers, Stereotyping, Sexting
Record practice speeches, watch on own, then peers, then 4s
• Voice Thread – online conversations
• Audacity – listen to self, make a radio show
Analyse speeches
• *Joshua Iosefa,
• Ted Talks – Thomas Suarez, Maya Penn
Debates - watch and adjudicate
*Case Study: Debating Year 9s
11. Creative writing
• Starters
• Random word generator
• Literacy Shed use/adapt other teachers starters
• PicLit – drag and drop poetry
• Pinterest – prompts, rules, better word lists said is dead etc
• BBC Skillwise – boring but necessary stuff
ReadWriteThink – Describe That Face
Periodic Table Storytelling – tried and trusted tropes
CSI – game based learning + forensics
Become a slam poet a TedEd lesson
Letter to my older self Level 2/portfolio
Case Study: Literacy Shed Low Year 10
12. Formal Writing
• Skills
• No Red Ink
• Grammar Monster
• Visual presentations of grammar rules etc on Ted-Ed
• Ideas
• Ted, YouTube, Twitter, Upworthy – what are people talking about? What do students care about?
• Research
• ACC – use Tree Octopus and Real MLK bogus sites
• Promote variety of search engines , encourage use of key words (Google Advanced Search)
• Use data bases – Epic and gateway sites – Instagrok, Answer the Public
• *Citation Machine to generate reference lists
• Structure
• BBC Skillwise paragraphs and sentences
• Proofing
• Grammarly
• Analyze My Writinghttp://www.analyzemywriting.com/
*Case Study: Cyber Bullying Year 10 focus on IDEAS
15. Presenting/Representing
• Ideas, overviews, summaries, analysis, story telling
• Animoto – match words, pictures, music
• OfficeMix - source/make a ppt then add audio, quizzes, sketched
• Visual.ly - source/make an infographic
• My Simple Show – write a script, select pics, it does commentary
• Comic Life – put words and pics in comic style format
• Prezi - fiddly but fun use with senior oral presentations/connections
• *Cellphone Cinematography- students storyboard and shoot short
film using phones. Bullying Focus (tied in with formal writing).
Focus on effect of techniques.
Case study: ORRS student via My Simple Show
18. Listening
• To experts via Skype,
• To other teachers via Show Me, Kahn Academy
• To ourselves via podcasts - Audacity
• To our writing via immersive readers – Learning Tools One
Note (and google offers same)
• To poems, stories, songs – but always close listening
Case Study:Year 9 Life of Pi, Level 2 Media Studies
(OfficeMix),
19. Reading
• *Crash Course - How and Why We Read
• Jessica Wise How Fiction Can Change Reality
• Book Drum – text companion site maps, videos, images
• Audio Books
• Dunedin Public Libraries read major daily newspapers
from around the world - all you need it a library card!
• Good Reads – reviews, online book club
• Taieri Hot Reads – junior bloggers intro to AS 1.10
Case Study: Motivating Reluctant Readers
20. Viewing
• New Zealand content – New Zealand On Screen
• *Movie Trailers – as film technique starters then story board
• *Poetry – 17: Pike River Poem, What Were they Like? To This
Day
• Kinetic typography – Rain, Drunk, No Ordinary Sun, Parihaka
• *Spoken Word poetry – Place to Be, Hip Hop Shakespeare Co
• History of English
• Make films to view – using phones, iPads, cameras, flip cams.
Upload to a YouTube Channel or Vimeo
Case Study: Ben Stokes A Place to Be
22. Revising
• ScoopIt – curate a page of relevant websites on a text (up
to 3 free), great extension
• Quizlet - input Q and As, makes flash cards, beat clock
game and multi choice
• EverNote – share notes, mobile and PC friendly
• Facebook groups - forum for clarifying learning pre exams
• Twitter Feeds – set up a revision #, set up separate
account to personal feed (same as FaceBook)
• Show Me and add links to school LMS
24. Making learning fun
• Free Rice
• Mindful Site
• Class Tools
• Random Name Generator
• Pac Man Quiz
• Fakebook
• Fake tweets
• Beat the Bomb timer
25. Digital Citizens
• Model with your learners
• THINK in practice
• ICT provide opportunities to teach safe
and ethical online practices
• Use creative commons to encourage
students to cite source
• Use clean video/audio/visual files
• Does your school have a Creative
Commons Policy?
http://www.vegaclassroom.com/videos-for-learning.html
27. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Ted-Ed lessons interactive and paper
Teacher Tube
Kahn Academy
Crash Course
Prezi
Office Mixes
Slide Share power points
28. Support
Education Council Social Media Site
The Pond (Network for Learning)
VLN
Enabling e- Learning – Ministry of Ed hub
Twitter #engchatnz – fortnightly chats
Cool Tools for Schools Wiki
Connected Educator Month – see the starter kete, free webinar
Creative Commons NZ – does your school have a policy? Attribute
licenses and…
Copyright clean images – a database where you can find clean images
29. You do!
Try one of the following in threes, pairs or solo:
• Create a poem on Pic Lits – visual verbal match
www.piclits.com
• Go to ScoopIt – curate a revision page for a senior class by
adding your favourite sites
www.scoopit.com
• Go to Literacy Shed – find a song/clip, adapt questions for a
junior class
• www.literacyshed.com
• Make a My Simple Show based on a text your class studied
this year OR with study tips for seniors and whanau
• www.mysimpleshow.com
Editor's Notes
Welcome! Teacher of English and Media Studies for past 6 six years. Prior to that 17 years in journalism and PR so have had to be adaptable.
Presentation hopefully with something for everyone
Hopefully not teaching you to suck eggs – feel free to share
Focus is on open source learning tools available via your web browser.
Hyperlinks embedded throughout so when you get a copy of ppt you can go directly to sites
An * means handout available also available later
Plus link to case studies at end of each Strand page
Presentation assumes we’ve al moved beyond the why we should and are keen to know how to embed digital literacy into our classrooms in a meaningful way.
How digital technologies are changing the way we learn and work. Apply to self – started off with type writer and A5 sheets of paper delivered to sub editors via tube not unlike 1984!
Our students already participate in games and social media where they routinely acquire and apply knowledge and collaborate with friends. So how to transfer that level of enthusiasm and engagement into classroom?
Gen Z born 1995 - mid 2000s
Expect 8 major job changes
Expect to be in debt
Don’t expect to own a home
Don’t expect to get superannuation
Cynical, pragmatic, not always resilient
Puberty earlier, brain development later
More mental health issues than previous generations
Probably all relate to these comments heard in classrooms all over the country…
Don’t have answer to infrastructure funding issues
Last BP puts us firmly in the place of our learners’ shoes
Difference between simply using and integrating important.
Shouldn’t be an added extra, must ne meangingful so form part of planning and have clear objectives.
Using technology should enhance core skills
According to NZC English focus is to help learners
understand, use and create written visual and oral texts
Digital technology is the CONDUIT to help SS achieve objectives and enjoy learning process
Preparing our learners for
Tertiary study
Or workplace
And life in general
Get them thinking eg boy racer, sexting, topical issues
Thomas and Maya use as starters list 3 speaking and 3 writing techniques.
EXAMPLE:
1. Human continuum – do you think we have gender equality in NZ in 2016?
2. Watch the talk – dot and jot 3 reasons Bell says girls need superheroes
3. Four corners - Each group write down 6 bullet points justifying opinion, read out. Swap corners if they find themselves being convinced to update their opinion.
5. Tag Team – groups of five, each person must speak. Aim is 1 minute each but you can tag others in if running out of ideas, can’t be tagged in until everyone has had a turn. Use the online bomb countdown timer to time their presentation which must make 5 minutes between them.
That pretty much takes an hour and has got them:
forming opinions
explaining opinions
working as a team
getting comfortable standing up and speaking in front of peers
EG: CSI -
Engaging based around a game with rewards = motivation
Integrate with science – forensics focus
Gives students subject specific words to use
Provides characters to develop
Fun
Literacy Shed – great for low Year 10 setting and character via short animation and music videos. Sheds within sheds.
EXAMPLE
Free and character writing
Core Skills
BBC Skillwise - sentences
Ideas
NetSafe DVD watch Tagged and Let’s Fight it Together – more SEXY paras re: bystanders
YouTube clips Sexting, Stereotyping, Cyber Bullying
Research – ACC, Real MLK, North Pacific Tree Octopus
Sheet to complete
Assessment – 4 periods in class held over 6
Results - follow
Mixed ability class.
BOY most at level 3 and below
Asstle showed ideas a weakness
EOY Most now at level 4 and 5.
Adapted task considerably.
Still issues with grammar and syntax but all had ideas and examples.
Objectives: to analyse and synthesis
Set parameters - an online novel/film assignment, representing key information, applying key concepts, working collaboratively
More of them less of you - guide on side
Students can add pics, audio, quizzes (more with surface pro)
EXAMPLE: Kurtis and MySimpleShow
See this as a real opportunity to model how to access and use information to our learners.
Listening for meaning a core skills - requires practise with some learners.
NB Learning tools also works with google
EXAMPLE: listening to each other, Life of Pi assignment, film study plus revision for end of year
Several years teaching Level 2 literacy class and tend to start year with I don’t read
On a mission to make them read. Need to make it real – all about them?!
Link to world via Upworthy, Shift Happens, note trends see how many we can name, MindFood articles pick one note five new facts, summarise
Link to Self – careers quest, goal setting
The introduce AS2.9 – read an article on a chosen career
Conversely, Taieri Hot Reads for sharing reading, making connections, RESPONDING to texts as precursor to wide reading achievement standards
Practice difference between plot summary and response.
Always have a linked activity explain to students it is close viewing what are you asking them to view for - Techniques, ideas purpose all?
Show Stokes and Questions 10FS
Cyber safety
Check and attribute
Source then adapt – good to share back too.
Focus on engchat nz
Connected Ed months
Cc policy free sound, images, attribution, share rights etc