LibGuides: Multiple Literacies & Web 2.0: General Resources

Guskey

Guskey: Helping Standards Make the Grade

"Standards don't lessen the responsibility of educators to evaluate the performance of students and to report the results. Nevertheless, the focus on standards poses unique challenges in grading and reporting. What are those challenges, and how can educators develop standards-based grading and reports that are accurate, honest, and fair?" Additional books by Guskey available via the Professional Library.

Lesson Plans/Databases

YoLink

Digital Literacy

Digital literacy skills are embedded in standards across the school curriculum. These sites provide background information about digital literacy as well as ideas for projects.

Hechinger Institute Digital Media, Teaching, Children and Schools Conference Reflections
Buffy Hamiliton tells the story of tory of how digital media is helping our students to write the story of learning and libraries. Great slide show about transliterarcy at the site
MacArthur Foundation: digital media and learning
"Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century" - a working paper on digital media and learning
PBS: Digital Media Literacy
Digital media content and tools provide educators and students with tremendous opportunities to be media creators as well as media consumers. How do you help your students understand the ethics and etiquette of this landscape? How savvy are you about integrating media production projects into your work with students? We've gathered a range of resources and references on these topics and more to help you foster digital media literacy in your classroom.
PBS: Digital Media - New Learners of the 21st Century
The film, targeted at parents, teachers, and anyone concerned about education in America, explores how exceptional educators are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students' curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.
Univ. of Ill: Digital Literacy Definition
From the Univ. of Ill, a leader in this area
Univ. of Ill: Digital Literacy Learning Objects
A guide of many different digital learning tools, inlcudes links and directions
Renee Hobbs: Media Education Lab blog
The blog of Renee Hoobs, a leader in the field media literacy education and a professor at Temple Univ.
Media Literacy Project: An Introduction to Media Literacy
A well-done overview of the concepts, the language of persuasion, deconstructing media ads, and much more
Digital Writing and the Common Core
This collection pulls together resources that have been published at Digital Is that highlight some of these domains within the Common Core’s ELA standards.
Howard Rheingold: How to Use the Internet Wisely
Published in the Atlantic, this "guide can help you avoid the crap and become a savvier citizen of our digital age."

Tech and Learning

Lots of new tools and sites with short descriptions of each.

Marzano on Formative & Standards Based Assessment

Project Information Literacy - Mike Eisenberg

Instructional Resources

AASL: Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
The "Top 25" Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, & collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly & encourage a community of learners to explore and discover (subcategories include media sharing, digital storytelling, manage & organize, social networking, collaboration, curriculum sharing & content resources)
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Web 2.0 Tools
"Adapting existing programs to enhance a digital learning environment "
Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
From Kathy Schrock, a clickable image map aligning various Google App tools with Bloom's updated taxomony. Each image links to the tool itself.
Bloom: Model of Learning Objectives
"A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing:
A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives"
New York Times: The Learning Network
"The Learning Network provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content." Content areas include American History, Economics, Fine Arts, Geography, Global History, Language Arts, Mathematics, Media Studies, Science, Social Studies and Technology.
Reading Lessons: 12 Ways to Scaffold Texts for Students
Students of all levels need some scaffolding; they need a plan and some knowledge in order to build a foundation for deeper understanding. There are many ways to approach the task of scaffolding depending upon the age group of the students and the text’s level of difficulty. The following 12 ideas can be modified to meet the needs of any grade or ability level.
5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing To Meet the Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards highlight five shifts that should be happening in every classroom. Teachers should:
• Lead High-Level, Text-Based Discussions
• Focus on Process, Not Just Content
• Create Assignments for Real Audiences and with Real Purpose
• Teach Argument, Not Persuasion

Thanks to Edina High School