Diving into Digital Lessons with Discovery Education

Jennifer Gingerich

Download & Install Google Chrome

AGENDA• Digital Assignment

– What is Text– Examining Common Core Assessments

• Discovery New Features & Review– Explore DE Common Core Model Lessons– Review & Build My Classrooms – New Student Board Builder Tool

• Lunch• Create a Digital Assignment

– Identify ELA CCSS Learning Targets– Gather “text” sources in My Content Folder– Plan for student engagement and accountability with sources– Plan for short writing response with Writing Prompt Builder– Assigning sources with Assignment Builder

• Wrap Up

WHAT IS TEXT?

Open Your Assignment in ChromeURL: assignments.discoveryeducation.comCode: T99B9-43A9

In small groups write a definition. Be ready to share!

WHAT IS TEXT?Writing Prompt Results

ELEMENTS IN PERFORMANCE TASK

• Whole group activity• Sources:– Articles– Audio– Video– Images

• Short answer questions• Long written response (Article, Story, Letter…)

TECH SKILLS LITERACY SKILLS

GRADE 4 READING PASSAGE – VOCAB & DETAILS

GRADE 4 – AUDIO & CHART

GRADE 5 – AUDIO & SHORT ANSWER

Which word appears in the ELA standards 122 times?

Sources:

Evidence

61 times57 timesResearch:

COMMON CORE STANDARDS TRIVIA

The words “technology” “digital”

and “multimedia”

appear in the Core Standards approximately ____ times. 107

COMMON CORE STANDARDS TRIVIA

With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

Which grade?

ONE SMALL BITE OF THE COREKindergarten

New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Digital texts confront students with the potential for continually updated content and dynamically changing combinations of words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded video and audio.

College and Career Readiness Anchor StandardsSpeaking and Listening Standards for English Language

Arts/Literacy K–5 | 26

ANCHOR STANDARD

COMMON CORE MODEL LESSONS• Log out of Student • Login to Discovery with your Teacher Account• Hover over the MY DE Services Home Button• Pull down to Streaming Plus.• Select Common Core Tab and then choose

content area, grade, strand, standard cluster, standard.

• Look fors: learning goals, “text” resources, engagement & accountability, written response

MY CLASSROOMS REVIEW• This Year’s Class Built• Login as a student• Working with Board Builder• Finding Student Results

BOARD BUILDER

Product

RequirementsRubric

ELEMENTS OF A DIGITAL LESSON

1. Student learning literacy targets

2. Gathered "text” resources

3. Engagement, purpose, accountability

4. Written response – short answer & long piece

CREATE A DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT

1. Gather “text” sources in My Content Folder2. Identify & state learning targets3. Brainstorm plans for student engagement and

accountability4. Create a new writing prompt for short answer5. Create a new assignment with sections• Learning Objective• Whole Group Engagement Activity• Further Exploration of Resources• Writing Prompt

Learning Objective (kid friendly)

Whole Group Engagement Activity (graphic organizer, vocab, discussion)

Further Exploration of Resources (same or new)

Writing Prompt (for short answer)

NOW WHAT? DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT

• Share in My District• Assign to Students• Schedule the Lesson• Teach the Lesson• Reflect on the Lesson

WRAP UPSession ID: 137433

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