Do - Module 4

Reflection: What challenges occur when students are empowered to create online "text" and share globally with others?

As you review the materials shared in Module Four, you should also review other texts you find online. Synthesize what you have learned from the materials in (& out) of this module.

You should present a thesis or argument in a reflective post. You should also include links from notes made in Hypothesis in your post. Use screencasts and screencaptures to create learning materials that can support all learners. Your post should include multimodal content (images, audio, video, hyperlinks).

It is suggested that you apply a Creative Commons license to the materials that you share online. With Creative Commons licensing, you should cite what you use...cite what you make.

Ideas for contributing your reflection:

• Use a mobile device to capture a portion of your response. This may be audio, images, video...or a combination of different modes.

• Embed your captured content in your post. Explain why you captured and shared this version of text.

  • Write up a response on your blog and share it out to your social networks and discussion spaces so others can comment. Include the hashtag #webliteracy in your post.    

Planning: Create and share a unit or lesson that includes elements of online content construction.

After you have read and synthesized the materials from Module Four, you should have a good handle on what it means for students in your classroom to act as not only a reader, but also a writer of digital texts. This could be considered to be creating, recreating, or remixing online info as part of your Internet Inquiry Project.

Once again...you should also consider the three models that we've discussed up to this point:

• • UbD looks at planning with the end goal in mind. This should help you as you develop your Internet Inquiry Unit Plan.

  • SAMR talks about extending teaching and learning through the use of tech. Basically, how can you take what you're doing and make it "better" in your classroom. This should affect lesson planning. How can you really turbocharge learning through tech?

  • TPACK looks at the nexus of technology with content knowledge and pedagogical choices in your classroom. This will also impact lesson planning as you think about what you have to teach (content), how you'll teach it (pedagogy), and how you can include technology and web literacies into instruction. 

As you work on your lesson plan, consider how you'll integrate aspects of the Internet Inquiry Projects. How will you scaffold students as they create online? In this class, you're using Hypothesis to track your reading collaboratively throughout the semester. You're also weekly reflecting openly about these materials in your reflection posts. How will you support your students in online content construction?

What would this look like in your classroom? How might this fold into the Internet Inquiry Unit Plan that you've been developing?

Create a lesson plan to detail how you'd fold this into instruction in your classroom. If you do not have a lesson plan template that you normally use, feel free to use my template. I'll share a post this week discussing how to lesson plan.

Along with your lesson plan, you should create and share all materials you you would use in a unit or lesson that embeds aspects of online reading comprehension. You should include text, images, video, and/or audio to create learning materials that can support all learners. 

Start a new Google Doc using your name and "Online Content Construction lesson plan" in the thread title. Share a link to the Google Doc you're using for your lesson plan, or the URL from your website.  Please also share any other materials you may have (or have created) to teach this lesson in your classroom...to your students.

Share this to Google Classroom for feedback from your instructor. No need to share to PeerGrade.

Planning: Start creating your Internet Inquiry Unit Plan.

Please continue to update your Unit Project Planning Workbook. Please revise your thinking about your unit with feedback from your peers. Please also consider the readings that I provided about the Internet Inquiry Project. 

Please complete the remainder of your unit plan.

Don't forget that you'll also notice that you're creating a lesson plan on "online content construction" and "writing" using digital tools for use in your current/future classroom. Just so there is no confusion, this lesson plan (and the remaining two that you complete) should connect to this Internet Inquiry Unit Plan.

Also, remember that this unit plan is meant to be a unit of instruction that you will teach in your future classroom. It should be of high interest to you..and more importantly your students. You will need to ensure that the instruction is grade level appropriate and includes the necessary content and frameworks/standards. 

Share the link to the Google Doc with the Unit Plan to PeerGrade for feedback. 

You are to respond to the work shared by your colleagues as they post them in PeerGrade. 

As soon as possible, this post will move over to your website as soon as you're ready.