"Process of locating, evaluating, and saving educational information for your use" (p. 164)

Teachers save lesson plans, ideas, learning materials, tests, etc. to use each year in the classroom

Now, teachers are digital content curators, saving ideas and information online and on their devices to utilize at any time and share with others

There are 4 content curation roles, according to researcher Torrey Trust (p.164):

• Contemplator (browses educational info)

• Curator (collects and organizes educational info)

• Crowdsourcer (requests educational info)

• Contributor (shares educational info)

"the capability of a computer through a web browser, to remember websites" (p. 165)

Just one click away to get to information that you saved previously

"using the Internet, rather than a personal computer or local network, to store and retrieve files (New York State School Boards Association, 2010)" (p. 165)

Info can be saved on Google Docs and Dropbox to allow teachers to collaborate with each other.

"Information management process in which teachers and students store and share weblinks digitally in an open public web space" (p. 165)

Social bookmarks can be private as well

Tags are created to recall a resource quickly from a keyword in a search

Resources and Apps

• Diigo

• Pinterest

• Symbaloo

• LiveBinders

• Padlet

• Bitly

• Flipboard

• Gooru

• Goodreads

Google Drive (store files)

Google Docs (collaborate on documents)

Google Forms (surveys/polls)

Google Sheets (store info in spreadsheets)

Google Slides (presentations)

Google Sites (websites)

Google Calendar (important dates and appointments)

Google Classroom (learning management system)

Google Hangouts (virtual conferencing)

Google Keep (note-taking tool)

Google Earth (sights of the universe)

Google Maps (maps of the world)

Google Tour Builder/Tour Creator (create own maps)

Google Sky (sights of the solar system)

"a digital platform or cloud-based system for supporting the delivery of in-person, online, or blended educational learning experiences" (p. 169)

Essentially, LMS' are online extensions of the physical classroom

Teachers use LMS' to post assignments, send reminders, post rubrics, update student grades, etc.

Examples of LMS' include Moodle, Canvas, Google Classroom, Blackboard, and Schoology

"a digital notice that new information about a topic has just become available in an online publication format" (p. 170)

Example: Google Alerts and Google Scholar Alerts

"short for Really Simple Syndication, give subscribers access to information via e-mail or an app rather than the requiring the reader to visit a particular site to check for updated news" (p. 170)

Common RSS feeds:

• The New York Times

• Yahoo! News: Technology

• BBC News

• Washington Post

"a collection of web resources aligned to curriculum frameworks - organized in a way that allows easy access for teaching and learning within different subject fields" (p. 171)

Both teachers and students can contribute

Standards connectors can also be a way for teachers to connect with teachers on different topics

Example: resourcesforhistoryteachers

"Locate up-to-date, reliable information from online resources" (p. 172)

"Connecting that information to subject area and grade level curriculum standards" (p. 172)

"Saving the information you find using an organized, easily accessible, cloud-based digital storage system" (p. 172)

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

WebQuests: "online inquiries and explorations for students, designed and guided by teachers" (p. 173)

HyperDocs: "series of online learning experiences that emerge from one central document or hub (Highfill, Hilton, & Landis, 2016)" (p. 173)

All information is digital and interactive

Includes multimodal experiences

"Online learning refers to the delivery of educational experiences through digital technologies" (p. 175)

"Virtual schools are educational organizations that teach students and confer degrees through online learning" (p. 175)

Blended learning: "a combination of 'clicks and bricks' where students' face-to-face interactions with teachers in school buildings (the bricks) are paired with computer-based online coursework and testing (the clicks)" (p. 175)

Prepares students for their careers

Students are more likely to complete online assignments than being in school

Accessible to students who have a disability, gifted students who need challenging assignments, etc.

Students are able to spend more time in their chosen extracurriculars

Gives students an outlet if they are feeling uncomfortable attending school in-person

Students have lower test scores

There are less full-time teachers

It can be an isolating experience

Students are not interacting with others as often

Students do not collaborate with others as often

Students do not get individual experiences with their teachers

Low student performance

"online courses open to hundreds of participants" (p. 176)

Purpose: teach as many people online as they can, allowing anyone and everyone to join the course

Examples:

• Coursera

• edX

• Future Learn

"students delve into a topic or a concept on their own or with small groups of peers to build connections between what they already know and new or unfamiliar knowledge they are about to learn" (p. 178)

Features:

• Interactivity

• Exploration

• Engagement

"a computer-generated, 3-D environment that generates a 'near-reality' experience for students and teachers (Virtual Reality Soceity, 2017)" (p. 181)

"an enhanced version of reality in which technology adds information, images, and virtual objects to real-world scenes to create new, artificial environments (The Franklin Institute, 2018)" (p. 181)

"online learning activities in which students visit museums, historic sites, scientific locations, and other places using technology" (p. 181)

Students can interact together on the virtual field trip