Digital communication
Rapid exchange of information between people using digital devices (213)
What is digital communication?
Using digital devices and social media to share information and connect online (215)
Contest posting, reader response, audience, and authorship. (226)
What are the design decisions for blogging teachers?
Tools that are easy to use but hard to sustain. The students lose interest in them over time. (230)
What are wikis as project-based learning tools?
Three types of digital communication that can happen between friends, teachers and students/family members, and between admin and educational personnel (213)
What are email, messaging, and texting?
Email, texting, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, Youtube, and LinkedIn. (215)
What are examples of social networking tools?
Open sources not offering as advanced tools. (226)
What is ease of use?
Instructional approach in which teachers and students use technology while working together to investigate topics, solve problems, and share information. Also known as team-based learning (TBL). (230)
What is project-based learning (PBL)?
Teaching beyond the school day, engaging students, building learning communities, providing authentic audiences for student writers, and publishing student work. (215)
What are benefits of digital communication in teaching?
Abbreviated language of letters and symbols used for quick communication in text messaging? (219)
What is textspeak?
Focusing on student growth and accomplishment; serving as an online journal for resources and materials related to education; and conveying important information about the class. (225)
What are the three ways teachers are using blogs to publicize educational activities?
Student-created movies and projects, lit circles and book discussion groups, teacher-to-teacher projects and information exchanges, student-developed texts and open-content source books, activities like a science fair or national history day. (231)
What are examples of standards-based wiki projects?
Synchronous chat rooms that allow students to discuss and exchange information during presentations and projects (213)
What are back channels?
Sharing lesson plans, resources, activity ideas, and digital tools; group editing of projects and writing; exchanging information about educational research; and linking with educational policy and reform organizations. (218)
What are examples of uses of social networking as a teacher?
Student-family communication, professional networking, and creating new instructional formats for teachers. (225)
What are the areas blogs are used as a key communication tool?
Use technology for multi-modal learning activities; collaborate with peers; synthesize and explain content through writing and different forms of multimedia; publish writing or projects; and receive feedback. (229)
What do wikis and google sites allow teachers and students to do?
Communication involving time delays (213)
What is asynchronous communications?
Focus on meaningful topics to the students; stress active and thoughtful participation; provide thoughtful and supportive feedback; choose language thoughtfully, and establish an etiquite; and develop an online reading response form. (223)
What are strategies for moderating online discussions?
Online materials developed by educators and devoted to educational learning activities in schools and classrooms.
What is a teacher or classroom-made blog?
Who produced the source, is it trustworthy; what's the perspective of the source; how would you summarize the main points; how does the source relate to the class; and what is the essential question answered by the source? (233)
What are the questions asked while making a Wikiquest?