The document outlines an agenda for a professional development session on creating digital lessons using Discovery Education. The agenda includes examining Common Core assessments, reviewing new Discovery Education features, creating a digital assignment involving identifying learning targets, gathering text sources, planning student engagement and accountability, and designing a writing prompt. Teachers will learn how to build assignments in Discovery Education and reflect on digital lessons.

1. Download & Install
Google Chrome
Diving into Digital Lessons
with Discovery Education
Jennifer Gingerich

2. AGENDA
• Digital Assignment
– What is Text
– Examining Common Core Assessments
• Discovery New Features & Review
– Explore DE Common Core Model Lessons
– Review & Build My Classrooms
– New Student Board Builder Tool
• Lunch
• Create a Digital Assignment
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Identify ELA CCSS Learning Targets
Gather “text” sources in My Content Folder
Plan for student engagement and accountability with sources
Plan for short writing response with Writing Prompt Builder
Assigning sources with Assignment Builder
• Wrap Up

3. WHAT IS TEXT?
In small groups write a definition. Be ready to share!
Open Your Assignment in Chrome
URL: assignments.discoveryeducation.com
Code: T99B9-43A9

5. WHAT IS TEXT?
Writing Prompt Results

6. ELEMENTS IN PERFORMANCE TASK
• Whole group activity
• Sources:
– Articles
– Audio
– Video
– Images
• Short answer questions
• Long written response (Article, Story, Letter…)

7. TECH SKILLS
LITERACY SKILLS

8. GRADE 4 READING PASSAGE – VOCAB & DETAILS

9. GRADE 4 – AUDIO & CHART

10. GRADE 5 – AUDIO & SHORT ANSWER

11. COMMON CORE STANDARDS TRIVIA
Which word appears in the ELA standards
122 times?
Evidence
Sources: 61 times
Research: 57 times

12. COMMON CORE STANDARDS TRIVIA
The words
“technology” “digital”
and
“multimedia”
appear in the Core Standards approximately
107
____ times.

13. ONE SMALL BITE OF THE CORE
Which grade? Kindergarten
With guidance and support from adults,
explore a variety of digital tools to produce
and publish writing, including in collaboration
with peers.

14. ANCHOR STANDARD
New technologies have broadened and expanded the
role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and
sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to
other forms of communication. Digital texts confront
students with the potential for continually updated
content and dynamically changing combinations of
words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded
video and audio.
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards
Speaking and Listening Standards for English Language Arts/Literacy K–5 | 26

15. COMMON CORE MODEL LESSONS
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Log out of Student
Login to Discovery with your Teacher Account
Hover over the MY DE Services Home Button
Pull down to Streaming Plus.
Select Common Core Tab and then choose
content area, grade, strand, standard cluster,
standard.
Look fors: learning goals, “text” resources,
engagement & accountability, written response

16. MY CLASSROOMS REVIEW
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This Year’s Class Built
Login as a student
Working with Board Builder
Finding Student Results

17. BOARD BUILDER
Requirements
Rubric
Product

18. ELEMENTS OF A DIGITAL LESSON
1. Student learning literacy targets
2. Gathered "text” resources
3. Engagement, purpose, accountability
4. Written response – short answer & long piece

19. CREATE A DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT
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Gather “text” sources in My Content Folder
Identify & state learning targets
Brainstorm plans for student engagement and
accountability
Create a new writing prompt for short answer
Create a new assignment with sections
Learning Objective
Whole Group Engagement Activity
Further Exploration of Resources
Writing Prompt

20. Learning Objective
(kid friendly)
Whole Group
Engagement Activity
(graphic organizer,
vocab, discussion)
Further Exploration
of Resources (same
or new)
Writing Prompt
(for short answer)

21. NOW WHAT?
DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT
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Share in My District
Assign to Students
Schedule the Lesson
Teach the Lesson
Reflect on the Lesson

22. WRAP UP
Session ID: 137433
Check In & Take Survey
Specialist: Jennifer Gingerich
Type: Other