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Instructional Tidbits: This is a great time of year to teach students how to clean up their files and organize their Google Drive. If they have multiple files just floating around, they can move them into a folder called "1st grade", for example, and have everything in one spot. You could even have them create a folder for next year's grade to make it easier for the transition in August. Purging is also a great skill to teach! If it is something they absolutely won't need, they can always delete. They will have their Google Drive through their senior year, so encourage them to keep meaningful work and things that make them proud. As you are teaching the kids, feel free to do a little end of year cleaning yourself!
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Instructional Tidbits: I was recently able to go to Teacher's College and attend the Digital & Media Literacy Institute. This is a topic that has been in our ELA TEKS since 2009, but is often overlooked. That's right, it has more of a connection to ELA than Technology alone. These came into practice over a year before the first generation iPad came to market. See K-4 TEKS below: At the time the current TEKS were adopted, the only examples of digital media listed were e-mail, website, video game, and web-based news article. Did you noticed the other technical terms? Sound, movement, graphics, shape, color, pacing, close-ups. Are we addressing these things with our students? Maybe you have not converted from analog yet. That's okay. There is still something about flipping through the pages of a good book, or picking up the morning paper. The thing about it, though, is there is now a sense of nostalgia linked to those things. Similar to phrases like "roll down the window" or "hang up the phone", our kids do not live in a time where those things make sense in their world. Colleen Cruz, a Senior Staff Developer for TC warned, "It’s going so fast, that if you choose not to jump in it is going to go too far," and, "If kids are going to do it, I have to start doing it." It may be uncomfortable, and it may be difficult, but we owe it to our students to be on board, and teach our digital and media literacy standards. In one of her presentations she also shared the following research: Cruz, Colleen. "Digital and Media Literacy Institute." Digital and Media Literacy Institute. Teacher's College, New York, NY. 20 Apr. 2017. Lecture. I learned some terrific new ideas about how to incorporate these skills and strategies into your current units of study! I'm happy to help you design some lessons!
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AuthorI am an elementary Campus Instructional Technologist in Highland Park ISD Archives
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