Digital collection development is integral to the “future ready” pledge. As the number of districts committing to personalizing instruction through digital learning grows, so does the demand for digital content. Join us for a webinar with Michelle Luhtala, Library Department chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut (a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker) and Andy Marcinek, Former Chief Open Education Advisor for the U.S. Department of Education. They will discuss what’s new in digital collection development, including the #GoOpen initiative, and how to make all resources discoverable, accessible, and usable for all learners.
Presenter, Ryan Schaaf, Assistant Professor of Technology at Notre Dame of Maryland University, discussed integrating a wide range of digital games, including those utilizing the Common Core, into the curriculum. He also explored the instructional strategies essential to making a digital game-based learning experience a success for students. Meaningful assessment processes such as product and process rubrics, as well as self and/or peer evaluation practices for digital game-based learning experiences, were determined.
How has your school built a positive culture around digital citizenship? How have you involved students, faculty, staff, leadership, and parents? You can build a positive school culture around digital citizenship, and involve all stakeholders.
Sharing digital material within your professional network is becoming more common, and people are using their digital portfolios to do so. In this webinar, presenter Holly Clark stressed the importance of creating and maintaining your professional digital portfolio.
Learning Bird and edWeb.net will partner to support teachers making the print-to-digital curriculum transition with a new, free online professional learning community, The Digital Educator: Skills for Success.
Kids are getting new devices for the holidays, but are they learning how to manage their online privacy? From the moment students start sharing information on the Internet and through digital devices, they are building digital footprints.
Presented by Sparkle Peters, EdTech Coordinator, A School Without Walls: Virtual (NY); Brianna Lucas, Instructional Technology Coach, Fairfax County Public Schools (VA); and Mel Mollick, Instructional Technology Coach, Fairfax County Public Schools (VA)
Moderated by Tali Horowitz, New York Education Director, Common Sense
Presented by Dr. Michelle Miller, Superintendent, South Fayette Township School District (PA); Dr. Michael Nagler, Superintendent, Mineola Union Free School District (NY); Dr. Julie Mitchell, Superintendent, Rowland Unified School District (CA); Dr. Baron Davis, Senior Advisor, Digital Promise; and Kimberly Smith, Chief Inclusive Innovation Officer, Digital Promise
Presented by Laura Ogando, Program Manager, Digital Literacy & Inclusion, New York City Department of Education (NY); and Tammi Sisk, Education Technology Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools (VA)
Moderated by Tali Horowitz, East Coast Education Director, Common Sense Education
edWeb.net is excited to announce that Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation has launched Inclusive Innovation to Transform Education, a free professional learning community on edWeb.net where educators can share ideas, research, and practices to foster the creative ingenuity of schools working in partnership with communities to create equitable, powerful learning opportunities for historically and systematically excluded students.