LESSON REVIEWS

What does ‘digital literacy’ really mean?

To possess ‘literacy’ in traditional terms means being able to read and write in the shared language of a culture. Digital literacy shares some similarities. It refers to the reading and writing of digital texts, for example being able to ‘read’ a website by navigating through hyperlinks and ‘writing’ by uploading digital photos to a social networking site. In this sense, digital literacy means the functional skills required to operate and communicate with technology and media. It also refers to the knowledge of how technologies and media affect the world.

Lesson Reviews:

GR 6 -7 Science Electricity. Project.

In this project students were using digital technologies to record their experiences for two very different outputs. One was to support their learning, to enable them to remember successful circuits they had created. The other was to document their learning process for an audience. In further work students could evaluate the technologies they had used, in terms of whether the same technologies were appropriate for each task.

Making the multimedia presentations gave the children the chance to reflect on their learning journey and remember how they had achieved the creation of their Christmas decoration. They also began to develop some audience awareness by having to choose which video and audio clips to include in their presentation. Although the digital technology was not the focus of the learning in this piece of work, the students were clear about the purpose of using the digital cameras and voice recorders to document their learning and their perceived advantages of doing so:

Although the digital technology was not the focus of the learning in this piece of work, the students were clear about the purpose of using the digital cameras and voice recorders to document their learning and their perceived advantages of doing so.

Students developed their group decision-making skills by deciding which pieces of information needed to be recorded. They were also able to comment on their collaboration skills.

So the lesson plan equips learners with the collaborative skills, ability to evaluate web information, it takes into consideration the theory of multiple intelligence. There is moving, taking pictures, creating documents.

Learners were able to comment on each other’s work, this means this lesson put into consideration the SAMR Model and also TPACK.  

Learners are given chance to have hands on activities, which led them to have experiential learning and helped them to also be creative.  

The objectives of the lesson were achieved because the learners were able to make electricity.

Here is the link

http://cctionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/Education_Digital_Society/DSFL_7-Electricity.pdf

I also evaluated the Technology supported lesson, and it was on Web designing.

Content Area Objectives Addressed:  

1.     Research an area of interest (telecommunications model--research) 

2.     Organize information into storyboard or flow chart 

3.     Present information electronically for peers learn and review 

  Technology Objectives Addressed:  

1.     Create a web page, 5-8 pages (presentation software model ---linear) 

2.     Incorporate 2-5 of the multimedia components  

3.     Operated/Observed the use of a projector 

4.     Consulted an expert using a web camera.

In this lesson students, are provided with the technology tools, meaning they were to have hands on activities. Learners were to evaluate different web pages.

Students worked in groups but each was able to do something and this made the learners feel part of the whole process.

The students had knowledge about the, key boarding word processing and internet connections, so the lesson looked at the prior knowledge. Lesson considered TPACK model and SAMR model and it had reached reflection stage.

The lesson was rich in technology and considered different approaches, it helped the learners to know how to present the information.

Here is the link 

http://edtech.boisestate.edu/bridges/Lesson%20Links/Chapman%20web%20design/creating_a_web_page.htm

It promoted collaboration among learners and they were able to integrate technology to accomplish the tasks.