Digital Citizenship and the Balanced Approach to

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What is the Role of Digital Technologies in Education?

What does modern learning really look like at the level of a student’s desk?

What are the Essential Skills for 21st Century Learning?

21st Century Fluencies are the transferable essential skills that students need today and in their future. They are the fundamental elements of learning that are driven by pedagogy and help to leverage curriculum.

Check out our Digital Book on the Essential Skills of 21st Century Learning

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The 3 Digital Citizenship “REPs”

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

Digital Citizenship Continuum Overview

3 Pillars of Digital Citizenship

RespectEducateProtect

The 9 Elements are under the 3 Pillars

What is the Digital Citizenship Continuum

Based On?

Work of Dr. Mike Ribble and the Nine Elements of Digital CitizenshipImage Source: Sylvia Duckworth

Respect Essential Questions:Etiquette: Are students aware of others when they use technology? Do students realize how their use of technology affects others? Access: Does everyone in school have equal access to technology? Do all students need to engage in a digital society?Law: Are students using technology the way it was intended? Are there rights infringed upon? Why should students using digital technologies be accountable for how they are used?

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

EducateEssential Questions:Communication: Do I use email, cell phone and instant messaging technologies appropriately when communicating with others? What rules, options and etiquette do students need to be aware of when communicating with technology? Literacy: Does everyone in school have equal access to technology? Do all students need to engage in a digital society?Commerce: Are students using technology the way it was intended? Are there rights infringed upon? Why should students using digital technologies be accountable for how they are used?

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

ProtectEssential Questions:Rights & Responsibilities: What rights and responsibilities do students have in a digital society? How do we make students more aware of their rights and responsibilities when using technologies?Safety & Security: How do students protect their technology in a digital society? How can students be taught to protect themselves and their equipment from harm?Health & Welfare: How can students be physically affected by technology? Are students aware of the physical dangers that can accompany the use of digital technology?

Source: Dr. Mike Ribble http:digitalcitizenship.net

• Integrate authentically

• Connect Digital Citizenship lessons to Curriculum to make learning stick!

• Lessons can go beyond just stand alone lessons, but connect to curriculum.

How Does Digital Citizenship Connect to Curriculum?

Source: National Canadian Common Curriculum Framework for Digital Citizenship in schools

Digital Citizenship Lesson Development

• Small groups will focus on one pillar and elements in a pillar• 2-3 participants/group of similar grade levels; each

group will create a collaborative lesson plan that focuses on 1 or 2 of the nine elements in the Digital Citizenship Continuum.

(Respect, Educate, Protect)

• Build a Collaborative Document in O365: • Review Continuum, especially the Pillar you are assigned. • Brainstorm lesson ideas, use the resources from

http://iamstronger.ca/ • Connect to curricula - How can you integrate the skills and

knowledge in an authentic way with curriculum?

Digital Citizenship Continuum Exploration

Include in your Lesson:• Curriculum Areas: • Curricular Outcome(s): • Resources /Materials:• Websites and Digital Resources:• 21st Century Essential Skills:

• Digital Citizenship Concepts and Skills: RESPECT, EDUCATE, PROTECT • Digital Citizenship Essential Questions: • Essential Knowledge - See Digital Fluency Continuum• Knowledge: What will students understand? • Skills: What will students be able to do?

Resources for Building Lessons • Ministry of Education I am Stronger Resources for Educators

• RCSD Digital Citizenship Resources

Other resources not listed:Resources for Digital Citizenship WeekEdutopia – Digital Citizenship Week, 6 Resources for Educators http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-citizenship-resources-matt-davis • Inctrl http://www.teachinctrl.org

Lesson Framework• Collaborative Ideas for Digital

Citizenship Integration into teaching• Framework Template – Click on the

link, go to Office365.• Exemplar Lesson –

Digital Citizenship and Politics • Download and save the template

and start developing a collaborative lesson. Share with Jennifer Stewart-Mitchell.

Brainstorming

Lesson FrameworkLesson design that incorporated 21st Century Learning Skills

Lesson FrameworkBe sure to incorporate elements from the Digital Citizenship Continuum when you plan.

When You Plan, Consider…

Think About Pedagogy•What’s best for

learning and your students?•What are the learning

needs of all your students? How do you differentiate?

When You Plan, Consider…

Think About 21st Century Skills• What Essential Skill or Skills

do you want to explore?• How can these skills and

the use of digital technology leverage learning?

Check out our Digital Book on the Essential Skills of 21st Century Learning

When You Plan, Consider…

Think About Curriculum•What outcomes and

indicators do you want to achieve? •What Skills?

Knowledge?

Integrating Digital Tools to Leverage Learning

Integrating Digital Tools to Leverage Learning

How can we provide opportunities and inspire students to create their own understanding?

The Key to Balanced Literacy is Balance.

Each of these elements of a balanced literacy approach is essential for developing independent readers and writers.

What new reading strategy or task have you implemented successfully in your classroom? Discuss and share on our Padlet discussion board.

Want to know more about Padlet in the classroom, watch this video.

Writing

Word Study

Independent Reading

Supported Reading

Integrating Digital Tools in Balanced Literacy

Balanced Literacy

Set the Course

Provide Content

Support Creativity

Capture Responses

How can digital tools be meaningfully integrated into Balanced Literacy?Technologies can transform the ways in which teachers and students engage in literacy experiences and build a literate learning community.

Turn and share. What apps or software have you used as part of your Tech Tasks? Or what digital tools are you interested in trying?

Set the Course for Balanced Literacy

1. What aspect of Balanced literacy do you want to examine? What 21st Century Essential Skill do you want to explore? What digital tool will fit?

2. Create task cards for students using Power point or Word. Add details like images and borders from sites such as mycutegraphics.com

Set the Course for Balanced Literacy

1. Make Task Cards suit the needs of your class, add verbal directions or video.2. To add verbal directions use QR Codes and a site like Vocaroo. - Record audio using Vocaroo and save it online. Anyone who visits the link can hear the recording.- Create a QR code for the Vocaroo link using

goqr.me- Copy paste the QR Code onto the task card.- When printed, students can use the app, QR Droid

to access the directions on the Vocaroo site.

Provide ContentProvide reading content for fiction and non-fiction at a Center. You can use a variety of apps and websites. Apps include: • News-o-matic for grades 3 – 8• Pearson Portal• Epic – App to try and it’s free

Websites for weblinks in Tab Pilot or QR Codes:• Wonderopolis for Inquiry• Soundcloud.com for audio podcasts• The Kids Should See This Videos

thekidshouldseethis.com• Kidscbc2 for videos and news articles• TedEd for videos and amazing lessons

Provide ContentProvide reading content for fiction and non-fiction at a Center.

Collect web links onto one page. If you students will be visiting multiple web links for the center, use sites to post and organize them. Provide a Bitly link or QR code to the collection for easy access.

Remember to use goqr.me to create the QR Code for the station.

Symbaloo.com Weebly.com

Thinglink.com

Provide Content

Other ways to generate content is to create interactive lessons. Use videos from YouTube, Vimeo, or TeacherTube or upload your own using MovieMaker, Office Mix or Sway. Make a QR Code for students to scan and access the content.

Support CreativityActive Learning is CreatingCreate a mindmap to help students reflect on skills they are learning at a center. App to try:Mindomo to create a mindmap

Online resources to try: PoppletPadlet

Support CreativityActive Learning is CreatingStudents can support their learning through other tasks to support critical thinking, communication and creativity. Students my want to try making an InfoPic – combines pictures with text layered on top to communicate a message. App to try:PixieExplain EverythingComics Head Camera App on the device

Online resources to try: Powerpoint onlineSway

InfoPic Example

Capture ResponsesSummative Assessment, Sharing

Student work and Celebrating LearningUse Office 365 Groups blogs, web pages, OneNote or even Excel forms to reflect on learning. Provide framework questions to help students reflect and self assess, as well as comment on the work of each other.

Digital Exit Slips: Excel Forms, Kahoot, Quizziz, Plickers

Sample Balanced Literacy Task Cards

The following are task cards for grades 6-8.

Feel free to adapt and change the task cards to suit your students’ needs, grade level, technical comfort and context.

Be sure to think of digital tools that are relevant, authentic and will leverage learning. It’s about keeping it simple and focusing on what will leverage learning.

Listen and Read Stories

1. Go to Epic, click on the app that looks like this. Find your teacher’s name in the list and tap it. 2. Read one of these short books, jot noting connections that you make on sticky notes or on paper as you read digitally. 3. Go to your Office 365 account, write a response to what you have read, making a connection to another text. This text piece can be in another subject, or in another book or in a non-fiction item (such as in the news).

This is a sample app for reading. You can choose another app or online resource.

Tech Task

Read, Listen, Reflect and Respond

Go to QR Droid, click on the app that looks like this. Scan the link to the podcast “Dear Prime Minister”.• In partners, jot note quotes that you found

thought provoking from the podcast. Then jot note areas that should have been addressed. • If you could write a letter to our new Prime

Minister what would you say? Write a letter of advice using the podcast as inspiration. • Go into Office365 and collaboratively brainstorm

ideas for your letter, then start composing in a second draft.

Soundcloud.comPodcasts for listening

Tech Task

View, Read, Reflect and Connect

1. Go to QR Droid and Scan the link to the weblink, for the site The Kids Should See This http://thekidshouldseethis.com/ Choose a video from “Nature”. See the menu.

2. Meet a Canadian Scientist! Go to the David Suzuki Foundation website and find an article that you think connects to a video you watched. Read it and jot down connections that you can make. Explain the connection in your words.

3. Go to Mindomo and create a web that shows the connections between the two sites. Be sure to incorporate multimedia, such photos and videos to illustrate your point.

thekidshouldseethis.com

www.davidsuzuki.org

Tech Task

Watch, Reflect and Respond on Human Rights

1. Go to the QR Droid app and Scan the QR code for the TEDEd video, What are Human Rights?

2. Jot not key points on paper in the form of a mindmap about the video.

3. Create a Mindmap about What are Human Rights and Connections to Your Life. Use the app, Mindomo and incorporate visuals and websites in your mindmap.

4. In closing sharing your thoughts as whether or not the right to the internet should be considered a Human Right? Add you comment to our Padlet Page.

TED Ed videos for Kids, What are Human Rights?

Padlet QR – Use goqr.me to create a QR code after creating a Teacher Padlet account. Students can then access the discussion board.

Tech Task

Watch, Reflect and Respond on Human Rights

1. The following is an extention to the previous Tech Task on TEDEd video, What are Human Rights?

Humans around the planet are working hard to protect habitat. Are these conservation efforts enough, or is it too late for us to sustain the ecosystems that we all rely on? 2. What do you think is the most important and neglected

human right? Why? 3. 2. Look at your own country: do you think human rights

are upheld and protected where you live? Why/why not?Share your responses to the Office 365 Group for our class. Be sure to explain your ideas in complete sentences.

After you finish your post, read the posts of others and offer your comments. Be sure to use the 3 C’s + Q model for commenting effectively.

TED Ed videos for Kids, What are Human Rights?

Tech Task

Read Online News Stories

1. Click on QR Droid2. Scan the QR code and read the article from

Tween Tribune www.tweentribune.com 3. Scan the QR code to our classroom Kidblog

account.4. Locate your name and login. 5. Write a Connections Reflective Response.

Write connections about the article, focusing on either 2 of the three connections: Text to Text, Text to Self, or Text to world.

Tweentribune. com

Tech Task

Read and Listen to Poetry of Famous Poets

1. Click on QR Droid2. Scan the QR code and read the poem from

Poem Hunter, “People Equal” by James Berry www.poemhunter.com

3. Scan the QR code to our classroom student Weebly account.

4. Locate your name and login. 5. Write a Connections Reflective Response.

Write connections about the poem, focusing on either 2 of the three connections: Text to Text, Text to Self, or Text to world.

Read other poems from Poemhunter.com

People Equal

Tech Task

Listen and Look at Pictures of Non-Fiction Storybooks

Expectations – Remember to only explore the books on this Youtube page.

1. Tap QR Droid and scan the QR code

2. Choose a story from the list of Youtube videos from Storyline

3. Listen to a story being read by famous people who also love books.4. Journal: In your journal, write your favorite part of the story. Is there a part that reminds you of another story? Tell us about it.

Tech Task

Create Comics with New Words

1. Scan the QR code and go to Wonderopolis.com and read the Wonder of the Day

2. Choose two Wonder Words that are new to you.

3. Learn the definitions of the words. 4. Write a sentence that uses both words in

your journal. 5. Create a comic in Comics Head using these

new words showing the meaning of the word through the character’s actions and dialogue. Be sure to have the character using one of the words in a sentence.

Wonderopolis.com

Teacher Soundcloud.com audio directions

Tech Task

Create a Story about What You Have Read

1. Write a story with a beginning, middle and end about one of the characters you read about in your Read to Self Station. • Create a comic using the Comics Head app

with 3 panels for your beginning, middle and end.• Choose a background, a character you want

in your story, then add props to help tell the story.

Tech Task

Create a Alternate Chapter Comic from a Novel

Is there a part in your book where you feel that the character makes a mistake and the consequences of his or her decision drastically impacted their lives? Wouldn’t it be nice to change things up? Write an “Alternate Chapter” with a beginning, middle and end about one of the characters from a novel you are currently reading, that shows how their actions impacted the plot of the book.

• Create a comic using the Comics Head app with at least 8 panels to clearly show what’s going on. You will need to create 2 separate comics on the same tablet, to get 8 panels.

• Choose a background, additional characters you want in your story, then add props to help tell the story.

• Use the Writing Process to make sure that your story has flow. Brainstorm your story on paper or in Office 365 – Word.

• Create a storyboard in the form of a table to help plan out what will happen in each panel.

• Revise the language to ensure the plot is clear. • Start drafting in Comics Head. You will be able to go back and edit if you need

to.

Tech Task

Narrate Your Story1. After you have created your comic in Comics Head, it is

time to add your voice!2. Take screen shots of your comic. Open your comic. Hold

down the power button and the down volume button at the same time, this will take a picture.

3. Click on Explain Everything and start a new presentation. 4. Insert your comic. 5. Start narrating and recording your voice as you read your

story with lots of expression.6. A Big Buddy will help you save your video and upload to

your teacher’s account on Youtube.

Tech Task

Buddies Task

Narrate Your Story1. After you have created your comic in Comics Head, it is time to

add your voice!2. Take screen shots of your comic. Open your comic. Hold down

the power button and the down volume button at the same time, this will take a picture.

3. Click on Explain Everything and start a new presentation. 4. Insert your comic. 5. Start narrating and recording your voice as you read your story

with lots of expression.6. Please ask your teacher for help to save your video and upload

to you’re his/her account on Youtube. Note: Students are not allowed to have Youtube accounts on devices.

Buddies Task

Tech Task

Read & Listen to News-o-matic News Stories

1. Click on the News-o-matic app.2. Choose a news story for today. Read the story

and listen. Use your earphones.3. View the video and slideshow and check your

understanding with a quick quiz!4. Scan the QR code to our classroom Kidblog

account.5. Locate your name and login. 6. Write a Connections Reflective Response. Write

connections about the article, focusing on either 2 of the three connections:

Text to Text, Text to Self, or Text to world. Class Blog login

Blog about a Book1. In this station you are going to reflect on a book that

you are reading during the Read to Self Station. This can be an AR book.

2. Scan the QR code to our classroom Kidblog account.3. Locate your name and login. 4. Write a Connections Reflective Response. Write

connections about the chapter you are currently reading, focusing on either 2 of the three connections:

a) What text to text connection can you make about your book and other articles, stories or books you have read?

b) What connections can you make with the text to your self?

c) What connection can you make with events in your book to what’s going on in your world?

Class Blog login

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Buddies ActivityCollaborative

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Reminders - Upcoming Events• Teachers interested in engaging their students regarding issues on

Digital Citizenship, may pre-register for the Student First Anti-Bullying Online Forum on November 17th, 2015; hosted by the Ministry of Education and facilitated by Dr. Alec Couros. • Register before October 30th