Evolving Education

  To promote a reading culture, I would implement writing clubs during lunchbreaks, writing workshops for classes, and a library website that showcases student work. I would love to involve students in helping create posts, write reviews about books, and create videos of book trailers, as encouraged by guest speakers in the podcast “‘We Want Them to Be Creators over Consumers.’ ”  During these programs, students would also develop their digital literacy.  The following video from mediasmarts defines digital media and how important it is to teach this as a literacy for students. Video from Mediasmarts, " Introduction to Digital Literacy:Digital Literacy 101"  These skills in innovation and collaboration corelates with the curricular competencies seen in BC’s Digital Literacy Framework. There are several activities I would lead in writing club and workshops.  I have found great advice on starting a writing club by teachers on Teachwire .  My teaching techniqu...

    In my last post where I focused on finding and examining resources for my inquiry, I have found 5 sources. These sources are relevant to the topics I will be examining further in this course: digital literacy and inquiry, social media accounts for schools, and social media for student learning. In each paragraph that discusses the inquiry topic, I will describing how particular sources are relevant to the topic, how these pieces of literature discuss the topic, and if there are any absence of topics in each literature. At the end, I will reflect on my key learnings from these sources and what I will take away for my future inquiry.       Digital Literacy and Inquiry   The sources that I have found to support this topic are by Arnelia Dwiyasa, Trevor MacKenzie, Josh Ochs, and the BC government.     Dwiyasa’s article, “Analysis of information Processing Capabilities and Digital Data on Digital Literacy Skills of Elementary School Stud...

                              5 Resources Connecting to Media Literacy for Student and Teacher     In my first reading review blog, I discussed topics that I would like to learn more about through this course. To follow through with my chosen paths, I have found 5 various resources that will become my citations for future research in media literacy, social media, and inquiry-based learning.  Journal This article by Arenlia Dwiyasa discusses the importance of teaching digital literacy to elementary students and how that can be achieved. Dwiyasa provides details of their research conducted in several schools as well as evidence. They state that students are having a difficulty time analyzing and choosing valid information online, which may cause future hardships in the real world. Thus, Dwiyasa proposes that more instruction and...