How will I begin to teach Digital Literacy? As I sit here and think about this question I realize it is a tough question to answer, given my current teaching assignment. I am a part-time intervention teacher. I currently work with students from Kinder-3rd grade. I teach students from our bilingual program as well as students from our regular English- Only program. I service students who are struggling the most in reading, and I also have one group for Math. Since I work with our struggling readers, the curriculum I am given to use is quite structured and does not really allow for much deviation. Also, I am limited to a designated amount of time with each group.
With that in mind, I feel like there wouldn’t be much time for independent, digital literacy lessons. Yet, I could incorporate digital literacy information into our group discussions about the stories we read. I could look through the stories I am provided and see if any of them are related to media use or digital literacy in any way. Then, I could incorporate specific aspects of digital literacy that I see fit. I was thinking of having my students begin to use google slides or story-telling add-ons, to retell the stories that we read. When I introduce this to my students I would take some time to touch on digital literacy, possibly a few minutes before each time they have to do a retell. I know this would not be diving in deep to digital literacy, but I feel like it would be a start. I could also ask other intervention teachers if and how they incorporate digital literacy into their instructional time.
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mayra cindy de la torre
2/20/2018 11:25:39 am
Even though you have limited time with your students I think that is a great idea to start off with. Google slides would be a great tool to use. I have only used them once last year towards the end of the school year and the students loved them. Even with "all" the time I have as a regular classroom teacher I still struggle to find time to fit in digital literacy. So don't stress over it, as long as we make an effort to try to fit it in I think it will serve our kids.
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Emily Feil
2/20/2018 10:23:50 pm
I like the idea of adding Google Slides or some other story telling app as an extension of your guided reading lessons. (Let's share resources on the Okapi curriculum!) I agree that you don't have time for a systematic study of digital citizenship, but a short reminder before they get to work on their retellings would be great. In this way you would be reinforcing the learning that is (hopefully) going on in the regular classroom.
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