Digital Age Best Practice

Describe the original intent and activities of the lesson.

• The original intent of the lesson was to teach children about nutrition. They were to learn about the new food pyramid, food groups, and about the appropriate weight for their age/height level through BMI calculations. In the end, I wanted the children to try and live more nutritiously with their new knowledge on health. 

Describe how the digital age best practice will be used to modify the lesson.

•  Digital age best practices will be incorporated through the use of digital age tools, personalizing to make authentic connections, and purposeful inquiry. Digital age tools, such as interactive websites, are incorporated into the lesson to make it more engaging for students and help keep their attention spans focused on academic tasks. The focus is not on the tools, but instead on the content. The tools just help to enhance the lesson. The lesson also has personalization characteristics to make content more relevant for students.  During the BMI calculations, they can take their own personal data to import into the software making content real because it will output information based on the individual student's characteristic. The data for one student will never be the same as data for another student. This lesson also introduces purposeful inquiry. During the lesson, students will apply higher order of thinking skills to apply knowledge and evaluate content.

Describe how the use of the best practice will promote academic growth and personal meaning for your students.

• Digital age best practices help to promote growth because they cater to the intellectual and social needs of students.  They help to develop a deeper level of understanding content because these practices help to captivate their interest and invoke critical thinking. By using the suggestions from the article, the teacher can use research base practices to help promote learning in the classroom. By incorporating personal meaning, you are reaching more students in the classroom, which will result in higher academic success.

Source:
https://vista.nau.edu/webct/urw/lc41830614054071.tp44562082975071/RelativeResourceManager/Template/develop/reflection/critanalyses/diverselearners/Digital_Age_Best_Practices.pdf