"Welcome to EdTechAfterDark! Our community was born out of discussions for a rich EdChat type gathering for those of us who are thinking about the digital edu-landscape long after the sun has gone down. For us night owls, when the clock strikes 10PM EST, you’ll find us on Twitter over at #edtechafterdark. All are welcome! Our discussions range from our philosophies about EdTech, digital best practices, and simply sharing our stories." --www.edtechafterdark.com
Welcome to #EdTechAfterDark! I'm honored to be guest hosting tonight's chat alongside @danvkoch@alexstubenbort & @MrLeonard8. Introduce yourself and let's get in the digital/media mindset - What was your most embarrassing 90's screen name OR post a photo from your MySpace days!
I'm Meg Jones, tech integration coach and PhD student in literacy studies. And I went through a wicked 90's punk/emo phase. Well..not sure I ever grew out of it really. I present one of my myspace photos...so much angst! #edtechafterdark
Sylvia, Academic Coach / ENG Tchr at a Title 1 HS in Tampa, FL ... sadly (or gratefully) I did not have a MySpace page ... too busy with my precious babies (not babies anymore) #EdTechAfterDark
I'm Christi King, school librarian and Ed.S. student from Birmingham,AL. I couldn't begin to remember my AOL or Myspace name! #UMEdTech#EDL577UM#EDTECHAFTERDARK
Hello #Edtechafterdark! I'm Jason, a Ready 1:1 Instructional coach from Garland, Texas. I believe my very first screen name had something to do with the red Power Ranger
Howdy #EdTechAfterDark! Jesse from Ripon. #edtech mentor #pltw instructor & overall learner .... not my most embarrassing but CanadianJester is up there #gamertag
Welcome to #EdTechAfterDark! I'm honored to be guest hosting tonight's chat alongside @danvkoch@alexstubenbort & @MrLeonard8. Introduce yourself and let's get in the digital/media mindset - What was your most embarrassing 90's screen name OR post a photo from your MySpace days!
A1 Digital Literacy IMO is one’s ability to communicate effectively in word / picture / etc using technology - phone, email, social media, video, etc. ... by whatever means necessary #EdTechAfterDark
A1: The ability to navigate the inter webs to seek truth, create content, and make meaningful connections. In short, a skill set that very few adults possess #EdTechAfterDark
A1. Digital Literacy is being literate on digital devices- from knowing how to operate a tablet to finding and evaluating information online and knowing how to post and share appropriately on social media. #UMEdTech#EDL577UM#EdTechAfterDark
A1: The ability to navigate the inter webs to seek truth, create content, and make meaningful connections. In short, a skill set that very few adults possess #EdTechAfterDark
Digital Literacies are a set of networked practices as we encode and decode meaning on the word, both offline and off, through a growing sense of agency #EdtechAfterDark
A1: It’s fluency, can Ss move across the digital spectrum to create what they need, but also is what they need something that enlightens or enslaves, it is essential to teach young creators the power behind their words, and creations #EdTechAfterDark
A1: digital literacy: being competent in digital spaces. Not simply knowing how to tweet or snap, but knowing how digital spaces inform the world around you. #edtechafterdark
Digital Literacies are a set of networked practices as we encode and decode meaning on the word, both offline and off, through a growing sense of agency #EdtechAfterDark
#edtechafterdark A1: digital literacy is the ability to choose, evaluate, create, and share technologically informative tools and resources to communicate and educate all learners.
A1: digital literacy: being competent in digital spaces. Not simply knowing how to tweet or snap, but knowing how digital spaces inform the world around you. #edtechafterdark
The rate of change in the digital landscape is increases exponentially. Therefore, digital literacy (to steal from @danvkoch) is forever in a state of beta. #EdTechAfterDark
A2 challenging question! “digital toddler”? They love to play but have not been fully trained with critical or creative thinking skills in order to use tech to benefit their learning #EdTechAfterDark
A2: I would call them digital novices because even though they tend to catch on faster, they're basic skills are weak because today's Ss use tech for entertainment and not work #edtechafterdark
To steal a term from @jbretzmann, “Digital Tourists.” Many times, adults simply expect children to “know” how to navigate their digital spaces. They will, but if we don’t guide them, we can’t get mad.. when they wander...#edtechafterdark
To steal a term from @jbretzmann, “Digital Tourists.” Many times, adults simply expect children to “know” how to navigate their digital spaces. They will, but if we don’t guide them, we can’t get mad.. when they wander...#edtechafterdark
A2: This is a toughy! My initial thought was a digital know-it-all, because kids feel as though they know everything about technology but it is only surface deep. They must be taught how to dig deeper. #UMEdTech#EDL577UM#EdTechAfterDark
A2 Hedonist- consuming any and all things in their path, leaving destruction in their wake, the only drive is self satisfaction and is based on self promotion, or gaining of digital social currency followers, likes, views, bleak but we allowed it to happen #EdTechAfterDark
A2: Digital Test Dummies. In all honesty, we still live in digital spaces that are (to steal @MrLeonard8’s analogy) eerily similar to the Wild West. W/out meaningful Instruction in Digital Literacy, our students are left to learn from their lowest digital moments #EdTechAfterDark
Hard to be a tourist in a place you live every day. What happens is schools ask you to do something foreign in your own tech world and your guide ain't great. #edtechafterdark
A1: digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, organize, communicate, and create information within a framework of human interconnectedness. #edtechafterdark
Then maybe it isn't the language surrounding kids using tech we should question, but the adults? aMong so many other practices with #edtech Hmmm...#edtechafterdark
Hard to be a tourist in a place you live every day. What happens is schools ask you to do something foreign in your own tech world and your guide ain't great. #edtechafterdark
In a very real way we as Ts are like a French tour guide leading a@group through Brazil...we know the Amazon is around here somewhere, but not sure if it’s a river or a website... #EdTechAfterDark
A3: I don't shy away from teachable moments. When something clearly needs to be taught, I take the time to do so and it ends up paying off down the road when we can go faster because Ss have acquired the skill. #edtechafterdark
A3 I have limited access in my classroom ... yet problem-solving and structures for creative thinking are used in my classroom - my sts are all 4-5 years below level in RDG/WRI/MATH .. focus on standards is priority #EdTechAfterDark
For example, if we call them "digital natives", an underlying message conveyed is we don't need, or have a responsibility, to model/intentionally develop digital literacy practices with students. Unintended outcomes of a phrase....
#EdTechAfterDark A3: It's fun to ask students of all ages what their favorite digital media is and then try to include it (via hashtag, sample, student-created product, link, shoutout, etc...) into a lesson, presentation, reflection, assessment comment, or lesson wrap.
Food for thought; What is more likely to give you food poisoning Pho from Publix or Sushi from the Shell Station....@alexstubenbort any experiences you care to share? #EdTechAfterDark
A3: I utilize google classroom and many apps to make instruction more engaging and real to my students. They live in such a technology rich world that we must bring it into the classroom. @CoyMillerElem#marchmadnesspd#MMMTeam6#edtechafterdark
A3: Unfortunately, in my office, students are coming to me after they’ve already committed a digital faux pas. It’s important for kids to know that their lowest digital moments don’t have to define them, but how they rise above and respond in these moments does. #EdTechAfterDark
Even worse what does it say to the immigrant community in my class regardless of their digital outcomes? You are right false binaries hurt. #edtechafterdark
A3. I integrate technology and/or technology skills in all my lessons. Good digital literacy is embedded in lessons (granted, I am a librarian). #UMEdTech#EDL577UM#EdTechAfterDark
A3: not in the classroom anymore (not formally in more than a decade), but digital and media literacy is used every day and shared with faculty and other admins as well, just in the way we do business #edtechafterdark
A4 IMO media can be a scaffold go literature - in #springboardpl 9th grade we analyze Tim Burton’s style as a director so that later sts can publish a poetry anthology & analyze a poet’s style ... concrete/visual to abstract/written #EdTechAfterDark
A3: provide avenues for real digital media exploration. Have children find and create media. Discuss where they found digital artifacts. Chat about how they may have wound up online. Follow breadcrumbs. Teach them to hunt digitally. #EdTechAfterDark
A4: Arguably more so than ever before, given the democratization of news, the increasing distrust of authoritative sources, and the corrupting influence of alternative facts. #EdTechAfterDark
A4: Modeling is essential to teaching good practices. When teaching students website eval., I walk though as website eval. myself and they see me in the process. I then make sure I do it when I am assisting at all times. #UMEdTech#EDL577UM#EdTechAfterDark
To steal a term from @jbretzmann, “Digital Tourists.” Many times, adults simply expect children to “know” how to navigate their digital spaces. They will, but if we don’t guide them, we can’t get mad.. when they wander...#edtechafterdark
Thanks for the shoutout Dan. Agree that we gotta' teach 'em how to live in the digital educational space instead of visiting the tech only for fun #edtechafterdark
First off, a responsibility to BE DOING this modeling. To move away from a steady diet of black and white copied articles and/or basal readers only, and diversify what we're exposing Ss to. Creating opportunities to become critical media consumers to begin with. #edchatafterdark
A4: This is probably the question for the past 12-18 months and yes, we are responsible to teaching others that we are living in a post-fact world where the truth is what is advertised not what is based on objective reality. #edtechafterdark
A4: quite a bit. If children see us Googling and saving images without attribution, ripping YouTube music...it becomes part of a larger more macro problem: consent to be digital thieves. Teach them why we need to critically consume and create. #EdTechAfterDark
Yet we need to look at strategy instruction in regular reading comprehension. It rarely transferred, had a low ceiling, but is necessary for students who need it the most. Same will happen online #Edtechafterdark
A1) Digital literacy is knowing the road; digital citizenship is how to drive on it. Literacy is knowledge, analysis, interpretation; citizenship is use, behavior, action. #EdTechAfterDark
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DigitalMedia needs to be incorporated into Curriculum. Ss need to understand #MediaLiteracy so they can use DigitalMedia to be LifeLongLearners.
A4: Despite not liking to acknowledge it, our personal social media lives are also up for discussion when “discovered” by the students we serve. As connected educators, our responsibility to model now extends far beyond the classroom’s 4 walls. #EdTechAfterDark
Instead we have to create a culture of critical deep reading to find what we need for prolific media creation in spaces where strategy exchange (not instruction) flourishes. #Edtechafterdark
A5: platform, font, color, layout, content are all important for digital communication; the limitations of text gave us emoticons, which led to emoji to give us greater control of expression. Creating new info or presenting old info in new ways if no different #edtechafterdark
A5: Before we can do that, we must teach Ss how to communicate appropriately in face-to-face environments then take that knowledge and apply it to the digital world. Have them think, "Would I do this if face-to-face?". #UMEdTech#EDL577UM#EdTechAfterDark
I was just saying to folks we can't expect attribution if we do not intentionally design for attribution. Same with our teaching. Domn't worry about commas in MLA worry about the spirit of attribution and then provide the tools. #Edtechafterdark
A5: it’s amazing how many questions this helps to answer, but...talk to kids. Ask them why they’ve decided to use a particular platform to create/publish on. Was it their audience? Content creation ability? Reach? Scope? On-fleek-ness? #edtechafterdark
A5) Emphasize the importance of audience and purpose. To whom am I communicating and why? Some online activity can be on a whim, but every day they’re building a record. They utimately need a story of themselves to share with certain people. #EdTechAfterDark
A5: we also have to consider the ever-evolving nature of English (and language in general). We have to understand the linguistic difference between "I get it" and "I get it." #edtechafterdark
Give them a reason to care about the choice of platform...if I’m doing something just for a grade, a teacher, or a test, I probably won’t see a purpose to considering things like audience, message, idea development, use of visuals, etc. #edchatafterdark
My principles:
Production Based
Privacy Through Data Empowerment
You Own the Shit You Make
In old days of web it was built by kids doing identity work. Was shaped by this need. Now this identity work is sold back to kids. Web is shaped by corporate needs
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A6) It begins with educating themselves. We need the research basis, too. If they learn a few things and “speak the same language,” they gain credibility. #EdTechAfterDark
Q6: How can teachers, students, and parents get their voices heard when education policy is being developed or voted upon so that the concept of "research based" doesn't take over? #resiliencechat
A6: there’s a difference between what’s ‘political’ and what’s inherently right and just. Guiding children to truth is one thing, but teaching them how to operate (online and off) as good citizens...that’s something I have no problem oscillating to and from. #edtechafterdark
