Understanding Digital Footprints- Insights from Mr. Van Dycks Classroom

Understanding Digital Footprints- Insights from Mr. Van Dycks Classroom

Part 1: Media Literacy in the Classroom

A digital footprint provides personal data associated with their actions online. Mr. Van Dyck requested the students to Google his name to illustrate what a digital footprint is. His example helps the students to understand the significance of their activities and actions online. Mr. Van’s digital footprint contains personal details based on his profession (SECCEducationalTV, 2014a).

Mr. Van instructs the students to evaluate the proposed hosts’ profiles, Linda and Jason, to identify the most suitable candidates for the post based on their honesty and teamwork skills. The tasks promote students’ participation and engagement in finding the host with the desired characters. The students evaluate the hosts’ profiles, encouraging them to air their arguments supporting their preferred candidate. Most students picked Jason over Linda, stating he was open, while Linda paid no interest in the kids’ needs. One group selected Linda since Jason lied about his personal information, including his age and hometown.

Part 2: Critical Thinking in the Classroom

The teachers help the students understand the skills and information taught by incorporating learning strategies that help them understand and prove the learning concepts. Ms. Reetz helped the students develop models, which helped them solve the division logarithms step by step (SECCEducationalTV, 2014 -c). Ms. More, on the other hand, enhances students’ understanding of dinosaurs through questioning strategies. Students give their imagination about dinosaurs and their presence today (SECCEducationalTV, 2014 -b).

The students understand the chronological steps in solving the logarithms, improving their skills in solving related problems. Also, the student question and answer strategy helps the students to retain information and apply it to solving other problems. Ms. Reetz’s class used the questioning strategy to test the validity of the student’s work. The questioning step helps the students to reflect and support their work, where their colleagues can state whether the solution is right or wrong.

References

SECCEducationalTV.  (2014a, October 28). Understanding the impact of digital footprints [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYxHrS6MDQQ

SECCEducationalTV. (2014 -b, July 25). 21st Century skills: Higher order thinking – Science  [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6R8Aj90zg

SECCEducationalTV. (2014 -c, July 25 ). 21st Century skills: Higher order thinking- Math [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luKc

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Part 1: Media Literacy in the Classroom

1. 1. View Video #1:Understanding the Impact of Digital Footprints Links to an external site. by: Mr. Brian Van Dyck, school: Buchser Middle School, ELA & Online Security
2. Answer the following three questions. Use your personal experiences, other readings, and/or videos as references to support your comments.
   

   Understanding Digital Footprints- Insights from Mr. Van Dycks Classroom

1. How does Mr. Van Dyck model the idea of digital footprints with a personal example?
2. In what ways does the challenging nature of the task increase student engagement?
3. What types of evidence do students provide to justify their answers?

Part 2: Critical Thinking in the Classroom

1. View the following two videos:

• 21st Century Skills: Higher Order Thinking – Science by: Ms. Alison More, Foothills Farm Junior High SchoolLinkLinks to an external site.
• 21st Century Skills: Higher Order Thinking – Math by: Patty Reetz, Frontier Elementary SchoolLinkLinks to an external site.

1. Respond to the following three questions. Use your personal experiences, other readings, and/or videos as references to support your comments.
2. How do Ms. More and Ms. Reetz help their students develop higher-order thinking.
3. What do students learn from both writing and discussing their work and questions?
4. How do students test the validity of their work in Ms. Reetz’s class? Why is this step so important?