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Camp Hill School District: In-Service 1/3/11 7:45-11:30 Planning for Digital Literacy

===="There is no way to discover what is 'more truly educational' except by the continuation of the educational act itself. The **discovery is never made, it always in the making**." John Dewey, 1928 ====

**Introduction**
The purpose of this Wiki is to foster a conversation about the **meaning, implementation, and impacts** of promoting digital literacy in the Camp Hill School District. In interrogative terms we might approach it with these 5 questions:

1. How do we promote a teaching /learning culture in which students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology?

2. How do we promote a teaching / learning culture learning in which students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others?

3. How do we promote a teaching / learning culture in which students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information?

4. How do we promote a teaching / learning culture in which students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources?

5. How do we promote a teaching / learning culture in which students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behaviors?

This Wiki is open (just like the date reflection one) meaning please feel free to edit at will the pages and share resources that might be appropriate for our task. Simply click on the "edit" tab in the upper right hand corner of this page to add, change, or upload any resources

The pages in the left hand column represent locations on the Wiki where we might keep things; useful resources, student / teacher examples, ...we can add more as we build.


 * What we are doing for the Jan 3rd In-service Day: step by step**.

read the article "Texts Without Context" by Michiko Kakutani hardcopy or []
 * 8:30-9:30 Department Meetings**

Consider the following prompt as you read: How might the trends revealed in this article inform instructional or curricular choices we make at Camp Hill? Discuss and have one member of your department record a common theme(s) / response(s) that derives from your conversation by clicking on the "discussion" tab at the top of this page.

First, review and consider the below digital literacy standards for teachers. You can see the original source by opening up the below link or address this task by using the below 5 questions (we turned the standards into questions).
 * 9:45-11:00 Grade Level Team Meeting**

Second, identify a particular lesson, project, task that one of you currently employ that addresses one or more of these standards. Questions to weigh: how does it represent an aspect of digital literacy? how did it play out in the classroom? how did it impact student learning? What relationship does the lesson, task, or project have with any of the themes presented in the //Texts without Context// article?

Third, open up the Language Arts page on the left hand side. Posted is an example of one project that happens in Ms. Foster's room. As we move forward I would like you to consider one or several digital literacy "eduational acts" using Dewyian terms, that you might share out to others. You do not have to type this in now but understand this will be a useful approach to showcasing how digital literacy themes are playing out in our classrooms (k-12).


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1**1:00-11:30 (Bringing it all together) Library**