Teaching Guide Discovery Education-Digital Media Integration

Written by Juan Bottia

Menu Introduction Discovery Education is an online platform for media literacy integration. Through its database teachers can create assignments and assessments containing videos, images, articles, and music. Since this program is fairly new in the district, most of the teachers in my school are using it solely to stream videos. It will benefit the students if this professional development is designed to help educators use Discovery Education to integrate media literacy. Aim This professional development is designed to help teachers build rigorous media literacy tasks that are aligned to the CCSS. To achieve this objective teachers will learn to use Discovery Educations Common Core in the Classroom lesson database (images, videos, and lesson plans), the Writing Prompt tool, and the quiz and board builders. Rationale The tools in Discovery Education allow teachers to establish one hub for their students online learning experiences. Without a Discovery Education account, teachers would have to use several web 2.0 tools to create an online learning platform (see Figure 1) where

students can collaborate, research, and complete assessments.

Figure 1.Susan Oxnevad, February 2013

General Goals By the end of the of the professional development each teacher will:

Use the Common Core in the Classroom database to assign rigorous learning tasks Use Discovery education to assess student learning Use Streaming Plus to gather content for a unit of study Create content folders and share them with the schools Discovery Education

database Learner Description The learners in this unit are all the certified staff at Orchard Place elementary. This includes resource staff, classroom teachers, and specials teachers (music, art, and P.E). Prerequisites The learner should have a laptop, headphones, and a username and password to access Discovery Education. Subject-Matter Media literacy integration-Common Core State Standards (Language Arts and Mathematics) - Learning Objectives Teachers will be able to:

Design quizzes and assignments in Discovery Education containing videos, images, and music

Use the Board Builder tool to create an introduction to a unit of study Use the Streaming Plus tool to gather the content for a unit of study Create and share folders with the school

Instructional Plan This workshop will be divided into three ability levels in using Discovery Education: novice, practitioner, and expert (parameters will be given to help teachers decide their ability level). Those that are practitioners and experts will mostly rely on watching screencasts through the workshops website. The novice group will initially get some small group support in order to learn the basic tools available in Discovery Education. The table on the next page delineates specific abilities in each level.

Novice: Defining CONCEPT(S)

Able to search and stream videos, images, and sounds

Able to logon to Discovery Education

Practitioner: Defining CONCEPT(S)

Use the Common Core in the Classroom lesson database to integrate media literacy

Create and share content folders

Independent/Expert: Defining CONCEPT(S)

Create blogs Use Quiz Builder Use Assignment

Builder Use the Writing

Prompt tool Use the Board

Builder tool

Materials

Laptop Discovery Education account Headsets Curriculum maps Materials for the next unit of study

Plan for Assessment and Evaluation

Surveys Samples of learning tasks created through Discovery Education

Resources

discoveryeducation.com weebly.com Google Forms

Glossary

Board Builder Quiz Builder Assignment Builder Blog Streaming Plus Common Core in the Classroom Database Folders