DIGITAL LITERACY

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

American College of Education

Daniel LaCursia

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 ISTE STANDARD 2E

• “Share lessons learned, best practices, challenges and the impact of learning
with technology and with other education leaders who want to learn from this
work.”

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 WHY DIGITAL LITERACY?

• Teachers have a varied level of comfort with using technology to:

• find information
• create information
• communicate information
• According to Nagel, digital literacy is a problem that affects young and old
people. This has been deemed as solvable problem with the number of
available resources that can be used to improve digital literacy (2016).
• Digital literacy skills are critical for our students to know

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 THREE COMPONENTS OF DIGITAL
LITERACY

• Using technology to find information

• Using technology to create information
• Using technology to communicate information

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO FIND
INFORMATION

• Research Skills
• Credible Resources
• Efficiently finding information
• Databases
• Ebsco
• Jstor
• Search Engines
• Google
• Yahoo

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 USING USING TECHNOLOGY TO
CREATE INFORMATION

• Poll Everywhere and SurveyMonkey

• Survey and data collection
• Google Sheets
• Organization of data and information
• Screencast-O-Matic
• Record your screen and create videos

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO
COMMUNICATE INFORMATION

• WeVideo
• Create and edit video to be shown to others
• Flip a classroom
• Weebly
• Create a website to communicate classroom
information
• Google Classroom
• Pushout assignments and class material

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 DIGITAL LITERACY BREAKOUT
SEMINARS

• Which component of digital literacy do you want to work on the most?

• Using technology to find information (Room A)
• Using technology to create information (Room B)
• Using technology to communicate information (Room C)
• Move to the seminar that will help you achieve your digital literacy goal

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO FIND
INFORMATION SEMINAR

• Seminar Agenda
• Direct instruction and demonstration of using technology to find information
• Brief formative assessment
• Collaborative work time
• Peer share and feedback

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE
INFORMATION SEMINAR

• Seminar Agenda
• Direct instruction and demonstration of using technology to create information
• Brief formative assessment
• Collaborative work time
• Peer share and feedback

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE
INFORMATION EXAMPLE

• Poll Everywhere and SurveyMonkey

• Survey and data collection
• Google Sheets
Screencastify Example
• Organization of data and information
• Screencastify
• Record your screen and create videos

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE
INFORMATION FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT

• Survey Monkey Formative Assessment

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE
INFORMATION COLLABORATION

Option 1 – Independent Work Option 2 – Collaborative Work

• Think of a new or - Form groups or partnerships

previously used activity Can be with content or grade level teachers
that can incorporate Think of a new or previously used activity that can
technology to create incorporate technology to create information
information

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE
INFORMATION SHARE-OUT AND FEEDBACK

• Small Group Share

• Take 20 minutes to discuss your activity or lesson with the people nearby.
• Provide feedback to your group members
• Large Group Share
• Individuals can share out their activity or lesson with the large group
• Provide or receive feedback on the activity or leesson

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 USING TECHNOLOGY TO COMMUNICATE
INFORMATION SEMINAR

• Seminar Agenda
• Direct instruction and demonstration of using technology to communicate information
• Brief formative assessment
• Collaborative work time
• Peer share and feedback

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 REFERENCES

• Nagel, D. (2016) 6 Major barriers impeding technology adoption in education.

Campus Technology Magazine, 29(4), 29-33. Retrieved from
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/02/16/6-major-barriers -
impeding-technology-adoption-in-education.aspx

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