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You can see Edutopia’s Digital Learning Day Resources at http://www.edutopia.org/digital-learning-technology-resources.
These resources include interesting and teacher-friendly videos, helpful hints, and new tools and resources on:
Integrating Technology into Schools
Online Learning and Blended Classrooms
Additional Resources on the Web
Email events for that day to: http://www.digitallearningday.org/events/
Understanding How Students View Their Own Learning, Implementing Instructional Strategies, and Making Learning Relevant
Check out these thought-provoking and instructional video clips on instructional strategies and learning.
How Students View Their Own Learning
Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow, shares insights from the national Speak Up survey into how students view their own learning in contrast to how they learn in school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlwFKHFi9VA
Instructional Strategies
High Level Teaching Practices for Engagement and Critical Thinking
Yvette Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, National Urban Alliance for Effective Education and author of the Pedagogy of Confidence: Inspiring High Intellectual Performance in Urban Schools, identifies the high-level teaching practices that elicit students’ deep engagement and critical thinking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjm136Yv-AU
Critical Thinking Skills for ELA and Mathematics Common Core State Standards
Yvette Jackson talks about the integration of critical thinking skills within the English language arts and mathematics common core state standards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVNLckvi_M
Importance of Feedback to Advance Learning
Yvette Jackson talks about the importance of feedback to advance student learning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ6Refh5Ims
Making Learning Relevant:
Yvette Jackson discusses making learning relevant to the student.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls-1SsTKncY
Julie Evans discusses the results of the national Speak Up survey and why digital learning makes learning more relevant for today’s students.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKI4iSuY970
Digital Learning Toolkit
http://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/pbl/
Digital Learning Language Arts
http://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/lessons/language-arts/
A Smattering of Writing Resources
http://delicious.com/scottmcleod/writing
Top 25 Websites for teaching and Learning
http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25
Literacy, ELL and Digital Learning
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2790
A Quick Checklist for your participation in Digital Learning Day:
You are encouraged to watch the live town hall meeting being streamed via the Internet on February 1, 2012. You can view this on your own, with colleagues, or as a class. Please make sure to register at http://digitallearningday.eventbrite.com/ to get the directions, bookmark the link, and test your system before the live webcast on February 1 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.
Generous Grant Offering from USA TODAY
In honor of Digital Learning Day, USA TODAY is offering participating teachers and their students free access to its electronic edition (an interactive digital replica of the print edition).
USA TODAY’s electronic edition helps you reinforce and bring relevance to the concepts you are teaching in your classroom by connecting them to events happening today. By using USA TODAY, students develop higher-order thinking skills such as analysis and synthesis to arrive at new solutions. And “real world” information engages students and motivates them to learn. For more information or to sign up for a free classroom subscription, go to the Grants and Contests Page on the Digital Learning Day Website or directly to http://www.usatodayeducate.com/digitallearningday.