Explain Everything & Spark Page


The idea of the spark page was to portray our personal view on digital literacy, and how it relates to our content area. The explain everything was a presentation about our curriculum philosophy. We first took a survey which revealed the philosophy we best express, then we had to make a video about the philosophy itself, and one way we could integrate it into our teaching.

 Performance Criterion 4.2: Candidates accurately address common misconceptions of the discipline.
 Performance Criterion 5.2: Candidates integrate cross-disciplinary skills (such as critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative problem solving) to help learners demonstrate their learning in unique ways.
These two performance criterions are demonstrated in the two presentations, the first one related to the misconception of literacy. Before this assignment, I thought literacy was reading and writing, but now I know it is so much more than that. Being literate in one content area does not necessarily mean you are literate in all of them. The second one relates to both of presentations because to complete the two assignments we had to use a variety of skills. For the presentations to be visually appealing we had to be creative with the layout of the presentations. Along with needing to be creative we were using new technology and there was a lot of problem solving happening when a feature wouldn’t work right. I think these two assignments related to each other because while introducing new ways to use technology to implement into our teaching, I was also using the some of the same language in the presentations.

For so long I thought literacy was about reading and writing, and now I know more about how it is the ability to understand and can explain what is being taught. I want to learn more about how to integrate digital literacy into English classrooms because that is where most of the content is reading and writing.


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