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In the connected era, students will be most successful after college if they have a digital presence that promotes their unique abilities and strengths. Online instructors are poised to play a powerful role in the development of our students’ digital footprint. Students aspire to be like their instructors who actively model safe and professional use of digital tools and resources. Effective online teachers understand that engaging students in the web is an important part of becoming digitally literate and, as such, learning is not tied to a textbook.
Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship
Learning: I have been deepening my understanding of my own professional digital presence and ways to expand my repertoire of digital tools for my students. I have also attended SxSwEdu, where they have featured keynote speakers on this topic and have connected with information about Online Educational Resources. In the new online course I have designed and taught, I have developed all my own online materials activities, with no textbook.
Reflection: I had not thought very deeply about digital literacy or what my students and I need to know about digital citizenship. On a practical level, I now take care in choosing Open Source materials and being aware of copyright violations with shared images and print materials.
Into the Future: I have been developing a unit on Digital Literacy with my students during the COVID 19 pandemic, to make sense of all the information about the virus.
Examples: Below are some examples of how I have applied this learning in my own teaching.
Examples
Examples
I have been curating my own materials for my online and remote classes so that students don't need to buy textbooks. Students do peer editing and group work assignments, and I make my own videos, using screen cast-o-matic, to showcase their work as text.
My students are exploring a variety of web-based materials to build their own digital literacy skills. They use this research to develop their writing skills. Shorter assignments are used as formative assessments and a culminating research paper is a summative assessment of mastery of the material.
Here is a sample of student work; a reflection on digital literacy.
My students also spend the semester designing their own digital portfolio, using Adobe Spark pages, which is used at the end of the semester as a summative assessment tool.
Sample Assignment from the @ONE course
Sample Assignment from the @ONE course
One aspect of media literacy that is a student learning outcome in our courses is students’ ability to read and understand graphs.
For ESL students, this 4-minute TED ED video has a lot of vocabulary related to digital literacy. I would start with a matching vocabulary exercise and a pre-watching reflection on what graphs convey.
Students then independently watch the video and take notes on what the video says about NUMBER, SCALE CONTEXT AND THE STORY BEING TOLD in a graph and how graphs can exaggerate or misrepresent facts. Students identify the different types of graphs presented in the video and the stories these particular graphs are telling.
After watching the video they summarize and analyze the key points, discuss with classmates and review with the whole class.
Follow-up activities could be researching and analyzing graphs related to content covered in class and creating their own graphs using Piktochart or other online tools.
Digital Citizenship Course Reflection
Digital Citizenship Course Reflection
How has your idea of digital citizenship changed?
How has your idea of digital citizenship changed?
I learned so may things in the Digital Literaacy class! Some highlights:
- Thinking more deeply about my professional digital presence and student digital presence
- New ideas for participatory learning
- Explain how key concepts surrounding digital presence might impact teaching practices
- How to be more transparent and creative in digital interactions with my students
- Applying digital ethics in my own classes
- So much about OER!
- The 5 Rs of OER: retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
- So much about Open Pedagogy!
How will you interact with digital environments differently and/or ask that your students interact with digital environments differently?
How will you interact with digital environments differently and/or ask that your students interact with digital environments differently?
I am excited to explore all the resources from OER and Open Pedagogy.
What will you change about your teaching practices?
What will you change about your teaching practices?
I now I have the courage to move toward a Zero- Textbook model. And as a new Doctorate student I appreciate first-hand when my professors use OER resources.
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