PBS Teachers-Digital Media Literacy

Quiz Yourself: Share how you scored on the quiz - did anything surprise you?

• On the quiz I only got 4/12 right. Some of the answers I was surprised at for example this question... In 2009, what was the average amount of time spent with all forms of media for 8 to 18 year-olds in the US? I said the answer was 8 hours and 29 minutes however the answer was 10 hours and 45 minutes.
  

The Digital Media Landscape: For each of the 4 sections in this area, share at least one link that you explored and what you learned.

• What Is It?-The link I looked at in this section was TeacherWeb. At this site I learned that you can make websites for your classroom that parents can look at and keep up to date with. I am not sure what I think about this, I kind of like the whole newsletter print out but this way work for some people who like computers. http://www.teacherweb.com/
• How Do I Use It- The link I looked at is called Education World: Technology Integration. In this link It tells you many apps that you can use as a teacher. One of these apps is called TeacherPal. It helps you organize all of your things in one calendar like app. http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/
• Learn More- I looked at this link...Digital Directions Online and found an article where an ipad, using braille, helped a blind child learn. The article is called Digital Revolution Changing Lives of Students With Disabilities. http://www.edweek.org/dd/
• Examples- I have never heard of SchoolTube so I clicked on it and I found something amazing! There is a youtube video that a math teacher made to the music of Nicki Minaj's song Super Base, however the teacher changed the words to make a song about maths exponents. I found this incredibly helpful. It was just last night that I was trying to help explain to my younger sister about exponents. I showed her the video and it seemed to click with her. Weird right? http://www.schooltube.com/
  

PBS Resources: Review one of the resources listed. Share your insights or connections.

• At PBS Resources i looked at a link called PBS TeacherLine. I never heard of it before so I decided to take look. At this site you can do so many things; you can sharpen your teaching skills online and look through their catalogs and find any subject.
  

Integrating Digital Content and Tools: Review this list and share which suggestions intrigue you enough that you would like to try it with your own students one day. Share the reasons for your choice.

• One that intrigues me and someday would like to try with my students would be to use Google Earth to do a geography project. For example we could look at the biggest dams in the world and we could look them up and actually see what they look like. I think the children would really engage and like this project because they get to see other places.