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- How can educators use new media to better reach and teach Alaska's students?
- Why is an awareness of Place important?
- How can an awareness of Place create better learning for Alaska students?
ENGAGE
Introduction
What information media do you use in your daily life? What media do you use in your classroom?
In a rapidly changing world, digital technology creates amazing new possibilities for learners across this enormous state. As educators, we want to find digital media that provides high information value for students and ease of use for teachers.
Teacher's Domain
In a rapidly changing world, digital technology creates amazing new possibilities for learners across this enormous state. As educators, we want to find digital media that provides high information value for students and ease of use for teachers.
Teacher's Domain
TD is an enormous digital library of free, quality educational media resources produced by public television and designed for classroom use. We will be using TD throughout this course to explore specific content. But TD resources reach much further than the scope of this course. You'll find that TD hosts many great resources from Art to Science to Social Studies, including:
EXPLORE
Teachers' Domain
Go to the TD website and register if you are not already a member. It's quick and easy! Just go to http://www.teachersdomain.org/. After you have registered, take a few minutes to explore some of the TD features and collections. No matter what or where you teach, there's something there for you.
Cultural Connections
Let's revisit our connections theme by viewing a brief TD video exploring the Spirit of Subsistence Living. Note how Chevak residents present a worldview that has many connections to themes we're exploring throughout this course.
Go to the TD website and register if you are not already a member. It's quick and easy! Just go to http://www.teachersdomain.org/. After you have registered, take a few minutes to explore some of the TD features and collections. No matter what or where you teach, there's something there for you.
Cultural Connections
Let's revisit our connections theme by viewing a brief TD video exploring the Spirit of Subsistence Living. Note how Chevak residents present a worldview that has many connections to themes we're exploring throughout this course.
EXPLORE
Teachers' Domain
EXAMINE
- How are teaching roles portrayed?
- How are newcomers or outsiders regarded in your community?
- What are the values of engaging the various cultures in your community?
EXTEND
- What are the population dynamics in your community?
- What educational cultural connections can you make in your community?
Miss Something?
Take a minute to go back to TD and explore some of the support resources you'll find right there. For the video you just watched, you'll find an abstract, background essay, questions for discussion, links to standards and other related resources. Besides saving you time, these aids can be used to help better prepare viewers for learning. Click Here. EXPLORE SOME MORE
Teachers' Domain
Teachers often choose their career for noble reasons--to make a positive difference in the lives of students. The same is true for Iñupiaq science teacher, Dustin Madden. Madden's decision to become a science teacher in Alaska creates a powerful example of the advantages and strengths of knowing both ways.
Watch this TD video:
EXAMINE
- How do you think students may regard the importance of education or science careers as a result of teachers like Dustin Madden?
- How can non-indigenous and indigenous teachers help students to embrace both ways?
EXPLORE SOME MORE
Teachers' Domain
Some Helpful Hints for the Media Minded
- If you'd like use media more skillfully, try these TD Classroom Tips.
- In order to watch TD videos, you may be prompted to either View or Download, or both. The choice is yours, depending on the speed of your Internet service.
- You may want to preview resources in View, and later Download resources you select.
- If a TD video is an important part of a lesson you're teaching, it's a good idea to download videos directly to your computer desktop. Besides assuring you have the video when you need it, you also get larger and better image quality.
EXTEND
- What is the role of pedagogy when applying new information media?
- How do you presently apply media-smart methods in your classroom?
EXPLORE SOME MORE....
EXTEND
- Try creating a TD folder category
- Save a few related favorite resources into the folder.
- That's it. Now those TD resources are right there. Just a click away.
What's Next?
Now it's time to move on to the next segment of Module I - Setting up your blog using Blogger.
