What is the compelling INQUIRY question that guides the design of your lesson/project?
How can I best invite my students to critically engage with a digital literacies framework for our course while also inspiring them to immerse themselves in meaningful inquiry and nourish their evolving professional identities via course co-construction?
LESSON/PROJECT SUMMARY: Write a 1 - 2 sentence overview of your planned learning experience(s), including both anytime and real-time elements.
Students will access and synthesize the Definition of Literacy in a Digital Age that will guide the structure of our semester together.
Students will complete anytime elements that include:
social annotation of the framework (anytime)
student interest survey (anytime)
student affinity groups to curate resources on a chosen element of the definition (anytime)
lesson co-collaboration doc and planning sessions (anytime and real time)
craft some lesson extensions of their choice (facilitating discussion in some way or organizing resources/texts/multimodal connections to share with co-learners in the class)
TEACHING GOALS: What anytime and/or real-time digital teaching practices will you aim to accomplish in this lesson/product?
The goals of this lesson are to:
Engage my students in the spirit of true professional collaboration and learner guided-inquiry as they explore the overarching framework for our course.
Invite students to focus in on at least one of the nine elements outlined in the definition to explore with more detail during the course of the semester and collaborate, in affinity groups, around theoretical and pedagogical issues related to their element:
Participate effectively and critically in a networked world;
Explore and engage critically, thoughtfully, and across a wide variety of inclusive texts and tools/modalities;
Consume, curate, and create actively across contexts (the course offerings/learning opportunities might be organized around this particular one, with sections of the semester devoted to "consume," "curate," and "create")
Advocate for equitable access to and accessibility of texts, tools, and information;
Build and sustain intentional global and cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so as to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;
Promote culturally sustaining communication and recognize the bias and privilege present in the interactions;
Examine the rights, responsibilities, and ethical implications of the use and creation of information;
Determine how and to what extent texts and tools amplify one’s own and others’ narratives as well as counter unproductive narratives;
Recognize and honor the multilingual literacy identities and culture experiences individuals bring to learning environments, and provide opportunities to promote, amplify, and encourage these differing variations of language (e.g., dialect, jargon, register).
LEARNING OUTCOMES: What will learners be expected to know, understand, and be able to do during and after they engage with the sequence of tasks in this lesson/project?
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Inquire about the essential question: What does it mean to engage professionally with and also develop skills and capacities around this NCTE's Definition of Literacy in a Digital Age as one way to conceptualize literacy in a digital age?
Discuss and synthesize the nine elements of NCTE's Definition of Literacy in a Digital Age with co-learners using social annotation via Hypothesis
Identify major considerations, issues, and themes of one of the nine digital literacies elements of NCTE's Definition of Literacy in a Digital Age and apply that knowledge to our work during the course of the semester as we engage in the practices of Consuming - Curating - and Creating.
Curate ideas, resources, extensions, and inquiries to a class-shared Wakelet repository with affinity group members based on their chosen digital literacies element.
Plan, create, and implement a professional learning opportunity for course co-learners based on their chosen digital literacies element.
TEXTS/TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES AND RATIONALE: Identify the digital texts, tools and/or technologies that will be used in this lesson. Explain why you have selected these digital resources for this work.
Google Forms for student interest survey
This integrates nicely with the other Google tools we will be regularly using in our course (Slides, Docs)
It also provides them with a model student interest survey that they might want to use with their own middle/high school students for the purpose of forming groups, obtaining student feedback, and collecting information for lesson planning and differentiating
Hypothesis for social annotation
A way for students to publicly annotate the document and share in analysis and synthesis
Wakelet for collaborative digital curation
This allows for each affinity group to share resources and ideas they curate around their element
Google Docs for co collaborative brainstorming and course design
This allows for each affinity group to help me plan the content for the modules during the semester based on what they've learned about their element. Might lead to them facilitating discussion in some way or organizing resources/texts/multimodal connections to share with co-learners in the class.
Assessment:
What is the best way to assess students' work on this iterative project? This is a perennial consideration of mine, especially as I invite my students to engage in collaborative and creative works.
Nicole, your project summary is very clear and manageable. I feel I have a good picture of what the learner will be doing. Love the idea of social annotation and making a multimodal representation of one aspect of the framework.
I don't think it will be too much to group them early in the semester for social annotation- you can make it a low-stakes project and they can get to know each other though the project. The power of the social annotation would be more clear with a larger group rather than a partnership, I think.
Nicole, rather than managing your project in 2 locations, since you have created a new tab, you could delete your information in the combined project.