Next Step: the audience

This project is ultimately for teachers though it will, hopefully, mean that students have greater opportunities to explore the curriculum through the lens of ADST and digital literacy. I know from my experience as a classroom teacher and as a teacher-librarian working with teachers that time is valuable. There are many things to manage, organize, and prioritize. It can sometimes take hours to sort through resources and ideas to prepare for a single unit in a single subject area.  This is often exacerbated by materials being primarily in English when we are a French Immersion school.

Through conversations with our professor and some inspiration from Doug Johnson, my goal is to create a curated and easily accessible pool of digital and print resources that can facilitate lesson planning for the teachers at my school and in my district. When a teacher is faced with all those considerations mentioned above the task is daunting but working collaboratively with a TL things become more manageable (Johnson).  Schools in our district received sets of Spheros, Ozobots, mBots, Bloxels, and OSMOs at the beginning of the new curriculum implementation to help support the ADST portion. By focusing on accumulating resources for these five tools and then adding further materials as we acquire other tools, I hope to build a useful and collaborative resource database. The collaborative element is important. I have observed that as one teacher in a grade group steps out to try something new, such as a storytelling project with Ozobot, others in the grade group see the result and want to try the same thing. By building on that initial experience, reflecting and changing elements that didn’t work I believe we can create a helpful resource.

The challenge already has been finding materials in French. A few of the tools (Bloxels being one) does offer its site in French. But many of the available lesson plans have been created in English. This is an area that will hopefully grow with collaboration as things that we create as a staff are added to the site.

Works cited:

Johnson, Doug. "The School Librarian: Your Ultimate Digital Resource." ASCD:  

Professional Learning & Community for Educators, Feb. 2019, www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb19/vol76/num05/The-School-Librarian@-Your-Ultimate-Digital-Resource.aspx?utm_source=ascdexpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Express+14-18#.XHf0zyMJ6Zs.twitter.