The Digital Backpack

Conferences

MASSCUE09

Presenting at Masscue Thursday October 29th at 10am.

The Digital Literacy Challenge

For two teachers without regularly scheduled classes or students we try to instruct beyond the walls and outside of the bell schedule. The focus of this year long project promoted digital literacy and citizenship school-wide. Run by the school librarian and technology specialist, the school student and faculty population were challenged to online tasks that included library 2.0 and web 2.0 experiences. Learning activities included social book marking, online library catalog, online book club, digital footprints, book review messaging, online giving, database search, presidential pledge wiki, online study sessions, wordle clouds, LibraryThing and more.

The challenges were communicated using different online methods, podcasts, jings, etc. lending a multi-layered approach that modeled new options for curriculum delivery to other classroom teachers. All of the activities can be customized and reinforced in the regular classroom with ties to existing curriculum.