Digital literacy

The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition examines emerging  technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative expression within the environment of pre-college education.  The following five trends have been identified as key drivers of technology adoptions for the period of 2011 through 2016; they are listed here in the order they were ranked by the advisory board.

1. The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.

2. As IT support becomes more and more decentralized, the technologies we use are increasingly based not on school servers, but in the cloud.

3. Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed.

4. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.

5. The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing.

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Horizon-Report-K12.pdf 

Literature Circles Using Graphic Novels 

MOV03517.MPG  Watch graphic novel literature circles in action.

Lindsay Bromley's grade 7 class at Kerrisdale. 

Check out their research on  their favourite music genres. Using music, images and text students create animoto videos. 

http://animoto.com/play/YNHdoZylx9JlPfEi68Ux4w Jenny

http://animoto.com/play/rZ0FkxKe0h440FoMmLhqjQ Peter and Andrew

Grade 4 - First Nations Research

Impressive research using kerpoof as an end product. 

Bronwyn

bronwyn.doc