Online Classrooms to Heighten Social Literacy

Online Classrooms to Heighten Social Literacy




Blogs... that's all we can use to use our students strengths and likes to teach them social literacy in conjunction with our content!!! If I have a blog in my classroom, would I have each student create their own blog... would I have one blog per class where students can comment on the material that I post!? How can I take the essential skills of social literacy to a new level and have my students be in the drivers seat of the curriculum they are learning?

Sitting here thinking about myself as a graduate student... How do my professors use social literacy and technology within my classes? Wait! We have e-class!! We are presented the material online and of course we have forums on the online classroom where we get to demonstrate what we know based on our educational growth, we get to reflect on the material and we get to pose questions to each other to help guide us to understand this material. So as graduate students we are using our social literacy skills outside of the classroom to help us master the content we are learning in class.

In my research, there are a few forms of online classrooms are of course, google classroom and moodle that we are aware of. However, there are also Wiki Classrooms that offer a new dynamic to the online classroom. As graduate students we are taught not to use or trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit the website. These Wiki Classrooms allow our students not just to comment on the material that is posted, but it allows them edit the actual content of the website. However, using this in any classroom would be beneficial for our students to collaborate with their classroom peers and peers from another class to create a website that revolves around the specific content they are learning about inside the classroom.

Ideas of Wiki Sites we can use in our classroom: 



A reflection on how I would use it in my classroom..... 

I would mainly use this in my integrated Math 8 classes. I would use this as a unit project. I would break up each of my three sections of integrate Math 8 into groups of two to three students. In each section , I would have one group be in charge of a specific unit where they must create a section on the Wiki website for that specific unit. I would have them communicate with the other groups in the other sections when creating the website. I would encourage them to review what the other groups are posting to make sure the material and resources are accurate. This would allow my students to not only to use their social literacy skills with their classroom peers, but it would allow them to connect with their peers that they do not have class with.

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