I plan to start teaching the digital citizenship lessons that my district has asked us to teach from common sense media once a week for 20 minutes. I know that’s not enough to finish a lesson, but I somehow have to find time in our busy schedule to fit it in.
My students use their chromebooks a lot within a day, but I would like it to be more than a typing activity or an adaptive program for math or reading. I would like my students to really start to understand how to correctly use the internet as a resource and how to create assignments digitally. For the past 4 years, I have taught third grade. I have always had my students work through the process of writing a report by using multiple sources. It is always time consuming and challenging as everything is new, yet so rewarding in the end. Now, I finally feel a little more confident to add more technology to this project. In the past, my students have only used technology when it came to finding one website to gather facts in addition to books and encyclopedias. They also used their computers to type their final drafts. Now, I plan to provide my students with a hyperdoc that gives them different links to research their animal. Students will also be asked to watch different videos to gather information though google classroom, create a reference page and create a slide presentation with a screencast. It is amazing to me that this group of students this year will not only be learning the same content as previous students, but technology literacy. This introduction to technology is a base that they can build upon for the future technology demands of school and life. While guiding these third graders though this assignment a lot of digital citizenship will be taught as well as digital literacy. As I become more knowledgeable with how to teach technology, my students gain more knowledge of this digital world that we live in today.
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