Auburn Library Vision — ARHS's librarian, Lisa Gallinatti, worked together with the classroom teacher, Cheryl Moyd, to build an instructional partnership and curate digital resources for students to access quality, current research material.

Media Literacy — as students produced their podcast, they needed to think about the presentation and reception of the piece of media, asking themselves questions like: What creative techniques can I use to attract attention? How might other people understand this message differently?  Why am I sending this message?

SAMR — rather than a paper and pencil assignment, the students were able to express themselves in a digital medium suitable to this assignment. By publishing their podcasts on Soundcloud, the students found a real-world, authentic audience for their work, which would be not be possible without technology.

Four Cs — students had to work hard to ensure that their work would Communicate the importance of their subject. By placing their work online, the students used their spoken skills to underscore the emotional component of these issues and engaged their Creativity in editing together a podcast that will have maximum effect on the listener.

CCSS — in addition to addressing these other tech-rich frameworks, the work is grounded in the Common Core, with students writing arguments focused on discipline-specific content, conducting short research projects to answer a question, and drawing evidence from informational texts. Of course, even CCSS has technology embedded and these students demonstrated their use of technology to produce, publish, and update individual writing products.