Digitizing Literacy Tasks for the Primary Classroom

Listen and learn : Lecture

Sunday, June 23, 8:30–9:30 am
Location: Room 124

Bhavini Patel
We'll focus on how you can use technology to emphasize literacy in 1:1 classrooms. This is a hands-on session for teachers in primary 1:1 classrooms.

Audience:	Teachers
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices useful
Attendee device specification:	Smartphone: Windows, Android, iOS Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	Seesaw App, Flipgrid App, Google Slides
Focus:	Digital age teaching & learning
Topic:	Creativity and productivity tools
Grade level:	PK-5
Subject area:	Language arts, ESL
ISTE Standards:	For Students: Empowered Learner Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. For Educators: Designer Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Participants will learn how to transform their traditional primary literacy activities. This session focuses on creating a technology-enriched learning environment for literacy instruction. Participants will learn how to integrate technology within a balanced literacy program in a primary classroom. The session is a hands on session for primary teachers with a 1:1 classroom. Digital tools: Flipgrid- giving students a voice. Seesaw- showcasing learning in a variety of ways, Google Apps for Education with a focus on primary grade and use of templates.

Outline

5 mins: Introduction and opening questions from the audience.
30 mins: Demonstration of and participation in the Seesaw platform and explore types of learning activities. Participants will experience both teacher and student user interfaces.
10 mins: Demonstrate the use of QR Codes and explore student examples and view templates for Google Slides.
10 mins: Demonstration of and participation in Flipgrid and explore student examples.
5 mins: Final questions and sharing of online resources.

Supporting research

Shake Up Learning: Practical Ideas to Move Learning from Static to Dynamic by Kasey Bell
The Google Infused Classroom Paperback – July 15, 2017
by Holly Clark and Tanya Avrith
Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can by Christine Pinto and
Alice Keeler

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