New Media & New Literacies

Introduction This interactive tool designed for students in elementary and middle school engages students digitally in order to explore skeletal, muscular, digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems. It utilizes drag-and-drop interactive models, quizzes, and 3D diagrams. Students discover how bones supplement movement, how nutrition travels through the digestive tract, and how blood circulates.  Integration This simulation seamlessly follows along a health curriculum track focusing on anatomy and physiology. It cracks the surface level introduction to the systems that students will need to learn for future courses, as well as how and why their body needs exercise. The major objectives in the simulation are to identify skeletal features and their functions, trace the digestive tract, and illustrate how the heart and lungs support circulation. One way to integrate the simulation into classwork is to have students first construct a paper skeleton, a muscular diagram and circulato...

Google Classroom and Seesaw 1. Google Classroom    2. Case Study  • Overview: Google Classroom is a free resource that is commonly used in schools from grades K-12. It is the main hub for students, teachers and parents to track students’ progress. The collaborative platform allows for notifications, announcements, grades, assignment details and quick communication. The features used in Google Classroom are Google Docs, Google Meet and Google Drive.  • User Engagement: Students can submit assignments, post comments and pose questions, interact with others and even work in groups. Teachers set up their classroom as they see fit for the grade level. They can post assignments, create submission folders, send links, utilize the features and share content. Parents can see when assignments are due to lessen the communication gap between students, teachers and themselves. They can gather insight on teaching style, student accountability and effective communication. ...

     The topic of my research paper will be discussing how AI and digital technology is reshaping literacy and altering teacher’s pedagogy. It will focus on the challenges of integrating AI and the positive outcomes that can be had. This includes promoting thought-provoking ideas and topics, how to utilize AI and implementing it into our curriculum. My thesis will be: AI and digital technology offer new ways to engage students through creative expression, critical thinking and problem solving. While positive outcomes can be numerous, they also challenge traditional methods of education. By researching AI use, strategy of implementation, positive outcomes and negative drawbacks over various resources, I believe I will acquire the necessary skills to put it into my own discipline and content. The research that I have covered has shown AI use in all disciplinary areas but also my own, physical and health education. While some of the research and case studies do not provi...