DigitalReading

Digital Reading, Digital Teacher - Sara Kajder

[|Bringing the Outside In] [|Promise Into Practice]

Time - 21st Century Students - kids aren't able to leverage the tools for learning "In School & Out of School Tools" Frontline special - "online kids" Understanding from students:
 * Old things with new tools
 * New things with old tools
 * New things with new tools
 * As long as the Internet is in the classroom, you are no longer the smartest person
 * It is not about how, but rather why and when to blog/podcasts
 * Kids aren't blank slates
 * We don't know the games they play

Questions to ask:
 * What are the unique capacities and limits of the tool?
 * How does this tool allow us to do something better?

Instructional Challenge: Book Talks
 * flick - using a plugin to create movie posters
 * movie maker - create a book trailer
 * entrance tickets to lab: storyboard and script
 * assessment is of a layered composition - holistic evaluation and reflective piece
 * transitions shoe do narrative work

Instructional Challenge: Think Alouds
 * visual/virtual think alouds
 * iMovie timeline as the visual: students practicing recitation, mental images, read alouds
 * using short passages
 * mental movie images
 * read alouds
 * think aloud inserts

Instructional Challenge: Literature Circle Discussions
 * voice recorders w/ iPods
 * Students are required to edit files with Audacity to 2-3 minutes of robust questions
 * metacognitive task - podcasting final product
 * Radio Willow Web
 * requires students to synthesize student learning - one grade per week
 * create a knowledge artifact
 * "Work that kids' knowledge can do"
 * Skype Interview
 * move us with this information
 * contacts found via globalschoo.net and classroom 2.0

Instructional Challenge: Cliffs Notes Digital Storytelling early in the year introduce yourself as a reader bio as a reader
 * Kids are using Spark Notes
 * Flat Classroom Project 07
 * creating their own wiki for book notes - students US/Bangladesh