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ISTE Standard: Digital Citizen
ISTE Standard: Digital Citizen
Students recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical.
Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
Students engage in positive, safe, legal, and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property.
Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.
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To0l Overview:
Google Docs
To0l Overview:
Google Docs
If you haven't heard of Google Docs by now, you probably spend a lot more time outside than I do. I hope you're pleased with yourself.
A Google Doc is a digital document with loads of potential. It has basic word processing capabilities with automatic cloud storage. It's free. It's easy. It's collaborative. It's a digital sandbox for words.
When a teacher uses a Google Doc for school stuff, they're allowed to call it a "HyperDoc." More on that later. In the meantime, you're welcome to check out the example I've provided—no questions asked.
To0l Review: The HyperDoc
To0l Review: The HyperDoc
If you're teaching a course with a digital component, you might find a lot of value in HyperDocs. A HyperDoc can be a powerful tool for getting organized and collaborating with students (or whomever).
You can embed external content into a HyperDoc, or simply cram a bunch of hyperlinks into that bad boy. That's the real game-changer, in my opinion. You can use a HyperDoc as a hub—by the time the students see it, you've already gathered, organized, and explained all the digital resources that they might need.
Of course, this also means you can nest HyperDocs within HyperDocs, turning your whole curriculum into a digital matryoshka doll (if you have the organizational fortitude for it). You could make one HyperDoc for a multi-week unit, then have it link to HyperDocs for each week, then have those link to HyperDocs for each day, which link to specific reading, videos, writing assignments... It could be HyperDocs all the way down!
My Recommendation
In case you couldn't tell by now: I like the HyperDoc. I have a lot of experience with Google Docs, but creating the sample HyperDoc made me realize that I've been ignoring a lot of this tool's potential. Without too much difficulty, I was able to gather a ton of reading/viewing material, create a big handful of different student activities, and organize all of it into a single document.
And it's more than just a container: since a HyperDoc is collaborative by design, a student can use it as a workspace and a medium for teacher communications. The comment feature can be a great tool for annotating digital texts, too. I took advantage of that in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" section, and I could easily see myself really leaning on that feature for reading instruction in the future.
Many of us are still coming to terms with the importance of digital citizenship. If we neglect digital media literacy in public education, we leave our students prone to all kinds of manipulation and exploitation. Curating a HyperDoc requires a little thought, but I believe it's completely worth the effort. After all, there's really no better place than the Internet if you want to teach and learn about what it means to be on the Internet.
TL;DR
Yes, you probably should be using HyperDocs.
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