After teaching middle school digital literacy for 6 years in the middle of tech-centric San Francisco, I am eager to share some of my more creative and successful lessons I've enjoyed teaching to 9 through 13 year olds.
I had the opportunity to build a digital literacy curriculum from scratch in a time where this subject matter and its relevance grows more and more. The school I taught at started with 4th grade, and most students stayed until their graduation which allowed me to build long term relationships with my students, as well as set up a 5 year progressive, flexible, and cumulative curriculum that taught students not only how to master basic computer skills but also how to create well, create often, set and meet their own goals, and to practice a critical eye online and a moral character online in order to understand the real offline effects of technology use. I draw on a variety of resources online and will share those tools with all of you. Because of the limited budget of the school I taught at, it forced me to be resourceful in finding free applications. It is my intention that posting my lessons and digital literacy classroom practices inspires and aides computer-teaching educators in their own teaching realms. First up, green screen films!
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AuthorAlicia Tapia is a school librarian and digital literacy instructor focused on information literacy skills delivered in a creative and effective way. ArchivesCategories
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