“Today don’t just play on your phone, program it.” -Obama
This week all over the world almost a million students, teachers, parents, and many others are taking one hour to engage in learning a little bit more about coding. In the words of Douglas Rushkoff (2010), Program of be programmed🙂
Here are two resources for learning to code:
*Notice I categorized this under literacy!
Last week we looked at boyd’s introduction section on media, and pondered our own understanding of social media. This week we will extend the concept of social media to social networking. With the following questions and pages in the text of It’s Complicated (p. 8-14) in mind:
-persistence: the durability of online expressions and content;
-visibility: the potential audience who can bear witness;
-spreadability; the ease with which content can be shared; and
-searchability: the ability to find content (boyd, 2014).
Alternatively if you wish to watch rather than read….
ABOUT the book
dana boyd (yes her name is in all lowercase) is one of the world’s experts on youth and social media. Her new book, is now out and certainly worth a read. There are several copies available for check out in hard copy, however the entire PDF of her work is available for free here.
As you likely already know watching and listening to yourself on video can be a powerful self reflective tool. Having students use video to capture their spoken word performances is a great formative way for them to rework and refine their craft. In SEVEN clicks one can have captured their performance in webcam style here is how:
NEWSELA is a database of non-fiction articles that can be adjusted for up to five different reading levels. In an article by Beth Holland (EdTechTeacher.org) (2014), NEWSELA + Google Docs = Differentiated Collaborative Reading explains how to use the combination to engage students in conversation with each other around reading prompts.
Tech Tuesday 