http://readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/celebrate-digital-learning-today-31146.html
Contribute to ReadWriteThink / RSS / FAQs / Site Demonstrations / Contact Us / About Us
What’s Happening This Week
There is much more to explore in our calendar. Find other important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, each with related lessons and resources.
Looking for age-appropriate book recommendations, author interviews, and fun activity ideas? Check out our podcasts.
Home › Classroom Resources › Calendar Activities
February 25
Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.
Grades | K – 12 |
Calendar Activity Type | Literacy-Related Event |
Sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day has since 2012 encouraged teachers to share and celebrate effective teaching and learning that showcases innovation in the use of digital instructional technology. Though Digital Learning Day does promote the effective use of contemporary tools and technologies, it is truly a day to reflect on the enhanced or transformed learning those tools support.
Ask students to reflect on something they recently learned how to do. After a few minutes to write or talk with a partner, have students share what they learned as you record their topics for everyone to see. Then lead a discussion around the role digital tools played in the different learning students shared.
-
How many of the examples were about learning to use a new digital tool?
-
How many examples featured students using a digital technology to facilitate or support their learning?
-
Which examples can students imagine doing differently with the support of a digital tool?
Then have students reflect on the varied ways digital learning plays a part in their everyday lives.
Be sure to browse the web resources below and share your celebration on the Digital Learning Day website.
- Highlights from Digital Learning Day
This page houses a collection of social media celebrations of last year’s Digital Learning Day.
- Interactive Lesson Plans
Find inspiration from a lesson plan from the Alliance for Excellent Education, arranged into themes such as language arts, STEM, and digital citizenship.
- Digital Literacies Lesson Plans and Strategy Guides
This collection of ReadWriteThink resources offer additional inspiration for considering the role digital technology can play in student learning.
- NCTE Position Statements and Guidelines on 21st Century Literacies
Need help defining 21st Century literacies or the implications for classroom practice? This collection of NCTE documents can help.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings then choose and explain specific names and profiles to represent themselves online.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Defining Literacy in a Digital World
Through listing and observation, students identify the many texts that they read and composeincluding books and magazines, television shows, movies, audio broadcasts, hypertexts, and animations.
Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Persuade Me in Five Slides! Creating Persuasive Digital Stories
After students write persuasive essays, use this lesson to challenge them to summarize their essays concisely by creating five-slide presentations.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Explore the modern significance of an older text, such as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, by asking students to create their own modern interpretation of specific events from the drama.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Copyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
Grades 2 – 4 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience
Students use various tools and features of digital readers to develop vocabulary, support comprehension, respond to text, improve fluency, and enhance the reading experience.
Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Digitally Telling the Story of Greek Figures
In this lesson students research Greek gods, heroes, and creatures and then share their findings through digital storytelling.