The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) has a few things planned for Digital Learning Day. For example, the DEN blog will feature short videos and photos of how students are learning with digital tools. Educators can submit their own stories to books09whose@photos.flickr.com. On the day itself, DEN has two webinars planned:
• 1 p.m. ET: Don’t Worry, Get APPy. Discovery Education students from across the country will showcase their favorite educational apps.
• 7 p.m. ET: Digital Learning Day Smack Down with the DEN (Hosted via Google Hangout). Meet DEN Leadership Council members and some of the DEN team as they share their favorite tools for digital learning.
Last year, the Alliance for Excellent Education released a report on Digital Learning Day that said digital learning can expand students’ learning opportunities and help schools overcome tough budget situations and boost achievement. (Read: “As Digital Learning Day approaches, states pledge support.”)
This year, the organization is releasing “Digital Learning: Lessons in Action” to help educators plan for local activities and events. Participants who sign up for Digital Learning Day will be given about a dozen detailed lesson plans that incorporate multiple strategies for digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipping the classroom, virtual access to experts, ePortfolios, bring your own device (BYOD), simulations, and real-time assessments.
Tens of thousands of educators will be tailoring these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond, organizers say.
Examples of some of the lesson plans include:
Hunger Games: Avoiding the Path to Panem (based on the book The Hunger Games): After reading this novel and researching their social, political, environmental, or economic theories of why Panem occurred, students write an informative essay.
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Writing Powerful Blog Comments: Students develop their own blog site and learn the difference between academic and social comments.
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Digital DNA: Students determine what their digital footprint looks like and discover tools that will help them maintain an appropriate digital footprint in the future (video can be found here).
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