I feel like I am gaining a little bit of momentum this week. My students used flipgrid again and the results were so much better. I am going to implement flipgrid at least once a week over the rest of the school year to be able to collect stronger data from my students. Since we had only used the tool for a limited amount, I felt like the data was not accurate.
I am narrowing down my ideas to focusing on the motivating factors of posting student work for peers to see. I want to also get into standardizing peer feedback but I am worried about making my project too broad. I want to try to focus on making a strong toolkit for my students next year as well as other teachers at my site who want to start using flipgrid and padlet as a digital strategy for motivating students. I spoke with a few teachers at my site this week and there was agreement that students need to learn how to express themselves not only in written format but also verbally. My students were working outside on creating their flipgrid responses this week so we received a lot of attention from teachers on campus. I am happy with the revisions to my project. Even though this new avenue does not have a lot to do with my original research on digital literacy, it is another passion that I have for my students and in my classroom. I can see some connections now that we are discussing transliteracy. My goal of the digital literacy lessons and unit was to help student analyze media online. However, this is only part of what they need to be able to do as a 21st century learner. They need to not only be able to critically consume information online but also create media to share with a larger (hopefully one day global) community.
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Shawn
4/19/2018 01:41:33 pm
I am hoping to feel like you soon. I still don't feel like I have made much movement on this project. I am getting more and more nervous on how my final project will turn out. I totally agree with you on how our students need to know how to express themselves in writing as well as verbally. How one speaks is just as important as how they write. Many students have a hard time expressing themselves without using slang. So, the more opportunities that they have to use academic language to express themselves the easier it gets.
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joseph williams
4/19/2018 06:41:15 pm
I am happy that you found what gets you excited about your research and am pursuing that avenue. You have hit the nail on the head that students need more than just digital literacy skills and am interested in how you tease out students creative spirit to create and put their own work and words on display.
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Jane Adams Gallagher
4/21/2018 08:57:51 pm
I like your idea of giving your students more opportunities to verbally express themselves, digitally. Speaking your ideas is definitely different than writing them. Verbal expression, especially in person, seems to be a more challenging task for students than it used to be. So much can be texted, emailed or tweeted that eye to eye contact and listening has become an art form for some. Glad you are receiving the results you were hoping from flipgridding.
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Teresa Barron
4/23/2018 11:15:39 pm
I always feel so motivated when I read your blogs! I like to hear about your success in the classroom and how confident you seem to be with your Capstone Work. I'm glad you found something that is working for you and will be of use to many others.
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