In this final episode, everything all comes together by talking about the importance of having principles in a digital environment. I talk about my experiences being 100% online and what I learned over time to make my classroom more engaging and creative. This podcast discusses becoming familiar with our chosen learning platforms and expanding the ways we present our lessons to our students.  

4 C's of Education

Robert M Shipley's 4 C's instructional design model talks about how communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity are all essential elements in online and in-person teaching. This short podcast discusses how the 4 c's of education can be applied in a digital classroom to help enrich our lessons and daily activities. In the podcast, I provide some of the activities students have completed in each category and why each category is important in teaching. Kasey Bell provides a digital learning menu for teachers to create their own activities to enrich student learning. 

Digital Responsibility 

We are pushing as a society for our students to be more involved with digital education, yet there is something unnatural about our contradicting expectations of them using technology. As educators, we fear technology is distracting and possibly putting students at risk when non-educational events happen. Therefore, teachers should take time to educate how digital responsibility helps create mature technology users and more responsible students. In this Google Slides, students are taught about empathy and are given scenario questions to teach responsible responses. There is also a web quest that aims to teach how to create a safe digital environment for students.