Tuesday and Thursday, Jenn and I delivered PD sessions for teachers focused on 21st century learning (with a particular focus on digital citizenship) and balanced literacy. We are sharing our7 C's project with teachers as we develop it. We are hoping to transform the mindset around technology in education, to promote pedagogy and student learning when using technology tools. In the morning of our session, the focus is on one of the C's, which is digital citizenship. We have created a lesson plan template for teachers to integrate Ribble's 9 elements of digital citizenship. The template focuses on curricular outcomes and allows teachers to make connections to digital citizenship, to reinforce the idea that digital citizenship should take an interdisciplinary approach and be integrated in learning, as opposed to isolated lessons that stand alone. When presented with the template, teachers were pleasantly surprised at how seamlessly they can make the Ministry's new digital citizenship continuum fit into their already-existing lessons. To encourage another one of the C's that we consider integral to 21st century learning (collaboration), teachers were happy to share the lessons they create in this new lesson template with us. We are hoping to create a interdisciplinary bank of lessons that tie in digital citizenship, so teachers have the opportunity to borrow and re-purpose for their use.
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Sample Middle Years Lesson
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