A presentation on using media as a voice of empowerment for students.

1. Smart Tech Use for Equity:
Teachers as Equity Designers

2. Janis Jones: Teacher on Special Assignment
Del Rio Elementary School, Oceanside, CA
Holly French: Humanities Teacher
Cajon Valley Middle School, El Cajon, CA
Janet Ilko: Humanities Teacher/ EL Program Manager
Health Sciences Middle School/ San Diego State University
SDAWP Consultants

3. How do you define Technology?
Quickwrite:
What do your students do with technology?

4. 4

5. History of Smart Tech
Use for Equity
Article

7. TOOLS
OUTCOMES
~OR~

8. Animoto
Padlet
Screencast
Slides

10. NEXT STEPS:

11. The Curriculum ➢ Created lessons
➢ Acquired materials
➢ Students created
The Science
The Writing

13. Janis’s
Next
Steps

14. First
Grade
Marine
Debris
Project

15. 5th Grade
Marine
Debris
Project

18. NEXT STEPS:
PLANNING TIME

19. Three things you
learned.
Two things you found
interesting.
One idea you can use
in your practice
tomorrow.
Three, Two, One Protocol

20. San Diego Area Writing Project Presentations
Janis Jones
Making to Make a Difference
B4, San Tomas/Lawrence Room, 1:30-2:45
Holly French and Janet Ilko
Writing for Change:
C2, Winchester Room, 2:50-4:15
Do You Want to Know More?
Thanks for coming!

21. Resources
● Link to Slideshare presentation
● Smart Tech Use For Equity article (Teaching Tolerance)
● Plan sheet
● Hicks, T, Turner, K.H, Teaching Adolescents to Read and Write Digital Texts Argument in the
Real World Heinemann 2017
● Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens