Digital Learning Day lessons in action: Video commercials, online research models, and collaborating with Russian schools

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To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

We encourage you try one of these lessons and blog about it as we lead up to Digital Learning Day. Join the tens of thousands of educators who will tailor these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond. Try a lesson now!

Today’s lessons are:

Front Pages to Landing Pages: How do you bring history to life for students—and spur them to action? Students learn how to translate knowledge into action by creating and curating research papers on a 20th century American history topic into engaging websites.

Video Introduction   Lesson Plan

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Collaborate with Russian School: Students in Virginia collaborate with students in Russia to learn about culture focusing on similarities and differences in how a school in Russia compares with our school.

Video Introduction    Lesson Plan   Video from Russian Students   Storyboard    Outline

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Thirty Second Propaganda: Students will work in groups to produce a short, persuasive video commercial to advance a political viewpoint on a controversial social issue.

Video Introduction   Lesson Plan  Supplemental Materials

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“I declare!”  Founding Fathers Sound Off on Contemporary Issues: Students use the Online Research Models (ORM’s) to engage in sustained research and critical thinking in order to answer the Essential Question: How would a Founding Father respond to a contemporary American issue?  

Video Introduction     Lesson Plan   Lesson Introduction

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Digital Learning Day lessons in action: Newton's law, astronomy, and combining like terms

Calling all Educators!

To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

We encourage you try one of these lessons and blog about it as we lead up to Digital Learning Day. Join the tens of thousands of educators who will tailor these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond. Try a lesson now!

Today’s lessons are:

Newton's Laws - Students apply Newton’s Laws to new situations using digital tools.

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Astronomy - Students will learn to identify features of the night sky and gain an understanding of how the sky’s motion is related to the motions of Earth and the observer’s latitude.

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Combining Like Terms - Students will learn how to simplify algebraic expressions in preparation for solving multi-step equations and inequalities.

Video Introduction  Lesson Plan   Flip Class Video Homework  Powerpoint

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Digital Learning Day lessons in action: Digital DNA and touch & learn technology

Calling all Educators!

To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

We encourage you try one of these lessons and blog about it as we lead up to Digital Learning Day. Join the tens of thousands of educators who will tailor these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond. Try a lesson now!

Today’s lessons are:

Raving About The Raven with Touch and Learn Technologies - This is a snapshot of how we use twenty-first century tools for teaching and a sample of digital resources used to facilitate students' understanding of literary devices in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.

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Digital DNA - Students determine what their digital footprint looks like and discover tools that will help the student maintain the appropriate digital footprint in the future.

Video Introduction   Lesson Plan   Supplemental Materials

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Digital Learning Day Lessons in Action on The Hunger Games & Inquiry-Based Research Projects

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Calling all Educators!

To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

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Lessons in action: Student book reviews blogging, visual book reports, and SAT comic strips

Calling all Educators!

To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

We encourage you try one of these lessons and blog about it as we lead up to Digital Learning Day. Join the tens of thousands of educators who will tailor these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond. Try a lesson now!

Today’s lessons are:

Successful Student Book Review Blogging - In order to promote independent reading and scaffold the language arts curriculum, students write and post book recommendations on their school-based book review blogs.

Video Introduction   Lesson Plan

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Visual Boook Report - Students will use primary source images or videos in order to create a book report/book trailer.

Video Introduction   Lesson Plan

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SAT Comic Strips - Students will utilize technology to create vocabulary comic strips in order to demonstrate their nuanced understanding of a selected vocabulary word. 

Video Introduction   Lesson Plan   Sample  Rubric   Virtual Gallery   Vocabulary Usage   Analyzing Stereotype

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Lessons in action: Powerful blog comments and jigsaw plot development

Calling all Educators!

To help educators celebrate Digital Learning Day, the Alliance for Excellent Education is pleased to offer Digital Learning: Lessons in Action, which incorporate multiple strategies with digital learning, such as collaboration, personalized learning, project-based learning, flipped classrooms, virtual access to experts, and simulations.

We encourage you try one of these lessons and blog about it as we lead up to Digital Learning Day. Join the tens of thousands of educators who will tailor these lessons for use in their classrooms on Digital Learning Day and beyond. Try a lesson now!

Today’s lessons are:

Writing Powerful Blog Comments: Students develop their own blog site and learn the difference between academic and social comments.

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Jigsaw Plot Development: Students use a shared workspace to collaborate with peers on plot development and design a storyboard that demonstrates their knowledge of plot development.

 

Video Introduction  Lesson Plan  Lesson Part 1  Lesson Part 2  Lesson Part 3

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