The tool I chose to review is Quizlet.com I recently tried out this tool in my classroom this year after hearing teachers and students rae about how much they enjoy it for reviewing content and vocabulary. The best part is that I have been content using the free version this year and so have my students. I know there are so many edtech tools where the free version just does not cut it when you have 150+ students in a middle school teaching load. Here is what Quizlet can do:
What worked/not well with students:
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Digital literacy is a true passion of mine in the classroom. I am interested in it so much that I designed my action research project around it last semester. I truly feel that digital literacy and citizenship needs to be taught in every classroom. It is the collective work of all teachers that will help our students successfully be able to navigate, make sense of and safely use the internet.
I can use my personalized learning plan from this week as an example. I was excited to try out some of the ideas that were shared this week in class so I added them to my timeline. Specifically I wanted to try/learn creative commons and also the EasyBib add on for Google Docs. I will need to first explore these tools on my own and then I will present them to my class as a part of a content related project or lesson. For example, my students will be writing a letter to an alien next week about the states of matter that we have here on earth and how these compare to what this imaginary alien has on their own planet. Students will be typing a letter in google docs for this. I am going to ask them to include pictures in the letter and I will be showing them creative commons and linking it in the directions so that students will have a chance to practice using it. I will also be having them all add the EasyBib add on and requiring them to cite their images or references in a works cited. By doing these two small additions to my project that I was already planning to do, I am providing my students with an opportunity to practice new skills and to talk to them about the proper use of images found online. I think that when students see more and more of their teachers including digital literacy and digital citizenship in their core classes, it will become natural for the students to do things like use creative commons or be able to properly evaluate the credibility of a website. Some of the data from my action research first semester led me to believe that students know a bit about some of these digital literacy skills, but when not held to that standard, they will always take the easy way out and do things like copy and paste images straight from google image searches. I appreciated the nudge in class last week that as teachers we should always be modeling this for our students by citing where we have obtained images in our presentations and giving credit to the creator of the content. |
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