The document discusses using digital technologies to promote higher-order thinking skills. It notes that students from high-poverty schools with lower literacy levels tend to use computers and the internet for rote learning, while their peers use them for activities that develop higher-order thinking. The document then presents three questions about making learning digital, including critical thinking, and social.

1. Collect All Three Cards
Ensure that when you swap with someone you
BOTH answer the question on the card.

2. Switched On: Disengaged Learners, Digital
Technologies and Higher Order Thinking
Fiona Isaacs

5. Students in high-poverty schools with
poorer literacy levels are more likely to
use computers and the Internet for
rote learning whereas their peers use
them for higher order thinking
activities.
Warschauer, Knobel and Stone (2011)

6. Activities
Brainstorm Prior Knowledge about Fukushima disaster
Watch this YouTube video (whole thing or a segment)
1. Can I make it Infographic and Article w/ questions
Explain that the students are going to make a
documentary about the Fukushima disaster one year
digital? on
2. Can I include Explain to students they need to create a PowerPoint
presentation with images and words (no more than 10
critical thinking? words per slide!!) that convey:
Why Japan used nuclear power
What happened at Fukishima
Some of the consequences of Fukushima one year on
3. Can I make it Use “Debut” on screen capture mode students to record
social? their PowerPoint whilst talking about/ explain their slides
(to create a very simple documentary).
As a class watch the videos.

7. 1. Can I make it digital?

10. 2. Can I include critical thinking?

14. 3. Can I make it social?

15. “A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to
artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating
and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship
whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to
novices. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe
their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social
connection with one another (at the least they care what other
people think about what they have created).”
Henry Jenkins: Confronting the challenges of Participatory Culture