Digital Literacy and Education
Constructivism is a theory of learning. It suggests that individuals create their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiences they face and reflect on those experiences. It is a useful teaching practice that should be used within the classroom.
UNESCO’s 4 pillars of education: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be.
The Ontario Language Curriculum outlines the four overall expectations:
for students in media literacy (Ontario Curriculum, p. 14)
1. demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
2. identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
3. create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions and techniques;
4. reflect on and identify their strengths, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Future educator, Kayla, believes media and digital literacy is essential in the 21st century classroom.
Here is my top 10 list of media and digital skills students will gain:
1. Communication
2. Analyze and evaluate different views and values
3. Able to make connections from past to present (relevance)
4. Create and collaborate (brainstorming)
5. Listening and comprehension
6. Problem solving
7. Reflective thinker
8. Demonstrate social responsibility
9. Critical thinking
10. Access, use and share
Educational Broadcasting Organization. Concept to Classroom, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index.html
Hobbes, Renee. “Narrowing the Gap In & Out of the Classroom.” Online video clip. YouTube. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo5c7_p2afA
Ministry of Education. The Ontario Curriculum Grades 1-8 Language, 2006. Print.
UNESCO’s 4 pillars of education: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be.
The Ontario Language Curriculum outlines the four overall expectations:
for students in media literacy (Ontario Curriculum, p. 14)
1. demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
2. identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
3. create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions and techniques;
4. reflect on and identify their strengths, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Future educator, Kayla, believes media and digital literacy is essential in the 21st century classroom.
Here is my top 10 list of media and digital skills students will gain:
1. Communication
2. Analyze and evaluate different views and values
3. Able to make connections from past to present (relevance)
4. Create and collaborate (brainstorming)
5. Listening and comprehension
6. Problem solving
7. Reflective thinker
8. Demonstrate social responsibility
9. Critical thinking
10. Access, use and share
Educational Broadcasting Organization. Concept to Classroom, 2004. Retrieved from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index.html
Hobbes, Renee. “Narrowing the Gap In & Out of the Classroom.” Online video clip. YouTube. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo5c7_p2afA
Ministry of Education. The Ontario Curriculum Grades 1-8 Language, 2006. Print.