Emerging technology for instruction
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What digital literacy skills do students need and what tools can be used to develop and strengthen these skills.
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- 1. Emerging Technology for Instruction NELL ECKERSLEY LITERACY ASSISTANCE CENTER NEW YORK CITY
- 2. Introductions • How are you using Technology? • In your life? • In your work? • How has it changed? 2http://www.emergingtechforadulted.com/
- 3. Agenda • What are Digital Literacy Skills • Tools to develop and strengthen Digital Literacy Skills • Next Steps 3http://www.emergingtechforadulted.com/
- 4. What are Digital Literacy Skills 4
- 6. Have you ever taken a test on a computer? • TABE Online tutorial http://learnoas.ctb.com/TABE/introfixed.html • New GED tutorial http://www.gedtestingservice.com/GEDTS%2 0Tutorial.html 6
- 7. Skills for Computer Based Testing • Keyboarding • Navigating with a mouse • Reading on a screen • Reading authentic texts • Following directions • Common internet layouts • Common internet vocabulary 7
- 8. Computers Skills for Everyday Life • Online banking • Online bill paying • Libraries online • Shopping online • Reading on a screen • Reading and writing emails 8
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- 11. Tools to Develop and Strengthen Digital Literacy Skills 11
- 12. Resources: Computer Literacy Skills ▪ Basic Computer Skills Curriculum: http://spclc.org/curricula-resources/computer-curriculum ▪ Computer Literacy Instructional Resources: http://mnliteracy.org/educators/adult/technology/computer-skills ▪ Keyboard skills: http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/ ▪ Mouse Skills: http://www.seniornet.org/howto/mouseexercises/mousepractice.html ▪ Northstar Basic Computer Skills Assessment: http://www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/index.php 12
- 13. Resources: Basic Computer Skills ▪ Internet 101: http://www.internet101.org/ ▪ Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 for Beginners: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/powerpoint2010 ▪ Microsoft Publisher 2010 for Beginners: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/publisher2010 ▪ Microsoft Word 2010 for Beginners: http://www.gcflearnfree.org/word2010 13
- 16. Computers Skills for Everyday Life • Medical forms • http://www.inova.org/patient-and-visitor- information/patient-forms.jsp • Job applications • http://www.macysjobs.com/Apply (complex) • http://www.bkcareers.com/ (easier) 16
- 19. Badges Are All Around Us • Pokémon Go • Fitbit • Starbucks • Microsoft • Santa Barbara City College 19
- 20. Digital Badges • Badges should clearly communicate: • Who did something • What they did • Who says they did it • Badges provide context around learning outcomes • Badges are secure and verifiable • Badges can track data 20
- 21. Make your own: Credly 21https://credly.com/
- 22. Our Digital Badge 1. To claim your badge for today, go to this link http://bit.ly/DigLitBadge or scan this QR code: 2. Fill out the 3 question form 3. Early next week, you will receive an email with your badge 4. Share the badge on LinkedIn or start a Mozilla Backpack https://backpack.openbadges.org/b ackpack/login 22
- 23. Digital Badges • How can you imagine using digital badges with students? • In your own professional life? 23
- 25. Weebly Websites • Free • Easy! Drag and drop elements to build your pages • Weebly for Education- https://education.weebly.com students create their own websites • Regular Weebly https://www.weebly.com/ (can make up to 10 sites under one account) 25
- 26. Make the Road New York 26http://mrnystudent.weebly.com/
- 27. Online Resources • Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/ • YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/teachers • Websites: • History channel http://www.history.com/ • NASA https://www.nasa.gov/ • Discovery channel http://www.discovery.com/ 27
- 29. Future Me Reflection • Take a moment and reflect on what we covered today. • Think to yourself or discuss with a neighbor what you would like to make happen in the next month • Go to https://www.futureme.org/ • Send yourself and Yanni a message to arrive one month from today 29
- 30. Future Me Reflection • https://www.futureme.org/ • Include: at least two realiostic goals around integrating digital literacy you have for the next month • List the steps you will need to take to realize those goals • Identify people who can help you 30
- 31. Blooms Digital Taxonomy Pyramid 31 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Author: Samantha Penney, samantha.penney@gmail.com
- 32. 32 My Contact Information Nell Eckersley • NellE@lacnyc.org • @LACNYCNell • http://www.emergingtechforadulted.com/