Guest Bloggers: Kathryn Herrboldt and Angie Kalthoff
All over St. Cloud Area School District students are integrating technology with learning. It is a vital step in the learning process as it prepares today’s students for tomorrow’s society. While secondary students use MacBooks and iPads for learning, elementary students use robots such as Dash and Dot, Raspberry Pi and Ozobot. Technology is being accessed everywhere for learning.
What is digital learning?
Digital learning is any instructional practice that effectively uses technology to strengthen a student’s learning experience. It emphasizes high-quality instruction and provides access to challenging content, feedback through formative assessment, opportunities for learning anytime and anywhere, and individualized instruction to ensure all students reach their full potential to succeed in college and a career.
Why digital learning?
Digital learning advances school reform by increasing equity and access to educational opportunities, improving effectiveness and productivity of teachers and administrators, providing student-centered learning to ensure college and career readiness for all students, and recognizing teachers as education designers.
Take a look at how Apollo students have joined the Minnesota Zoo Challenge on water quality as it pertains to protecting Minnesota lakes and rivers from zebra mussels. They’ve created a website to educate the public about mussels and how they impact Minnesota’s eco-system. By taking what they’ve learned in their science class, they are able to apply that knowledge into website design and research. If the students win the challenge, they are given the opportunity to spend the day at the Minnesota Zoo interacting with the mussel conservation staff.
Apollo students designed a website regarding zebra mussels.
Why celebrate Digital Learning Day?
With so many new types of digital devices, educational software and mobile apps continuously developed, it’s hard to keep up with the latest and greatest advancements in educational technology. In some classrooms and out-of-school programs across the country, educators are doing some pretty amazing things with technology. Yet, these pockets of innovation are confined to a small number of schools and communities. Digital Learning Day was started as a way to actively spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access to high-quality digital learning opportunities no matter where they live.
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