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11 Underlying Assumptions Of Digital Literacy

In understanding the shift from literacy to digital literacy, it may help to take a look at the underlying assumptions of digital literacy.

Technology / July 8, 2021 July 8, 2021 / Fundamentals, Terry Heick

Examples of education technology include mobile devices, adaptive learning algorithms, the cloud, podcasting, and virtual reality.

Teaching / July 8, 2021 July 8, 2021 / Random, Terry Heick

Teachers are professionals and their ‘clients’ are children and their function is teaching and their craft is understanding.

Social-emotional learning is part of the bedrock of critical literacy: helping them care enough to change themselves.

The 3-2-1 strategy is a simple way to frame a topic or task, making it useful for anything from discussion prompts to inquiry learning.

Slowing the ‘summer slide’ through daily reading, writing, and ‘playing’ supports children in developing learning habits that endure.

Teaching / June 19, 2021 June 19, 2021 / Essential, Terry Heick

Every lesson should have a clear and compelling–and accessible–role for each student.

If what a student is learning has very little ‘transferability’ to their life, there are significant costs and consequences.

Teachers are guides and coaches and content experts. A ‘post-progressive’ teacher would be empowered, not replaced.

One student engagement strategy is to offer diverse pathways through content–pathways students would have to ‘unlock’ to progress.

Make any politician voting on legislation have to qualify for that right to vote by spending a certain number of hours in the classroom.

While screen time certainly matters, focusing only on time is like developing a literacy program that focuses only on ‘minutes read.’