Active Learning Review

When should Digital Citizenship be taught?

• at the beginning of school

• before assigning devices

• throughout the school year

• whenever the Technology teacher assigns it

Answer explanation

Digital Citizenship is the foundation of digital learning. Like your routines and procedures in your classroom are revisited frequently, this component must be revisited throughout the year.

Teachers should use content-specific and content-agnostic tools.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

A mixture of content-specific and content-agnostic tools can be used in your instruction if your students know how to use the tool and the purpose of the tool.

What is one benefit of incorporating digital tools that promote active learning and engagement?

• increased connections to the real world

• increased student agency

• increased lessons catered to students' learning styles

• increased repetition of content

Answer explanation

Student agency is encouraged when teachers create lessons that allow students to explore interests, create, collaborate, communicate, and use critical thinking skills.

The Digital Citizenship component focuses on teaching students how to be safe, kind, and responsible in a digital world.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Digital Citizenship includes more than teaching students how to be safe, kind, and responsible. It includes teaching students how to become comfortable using the internet, apps, and devices, plus a variety of things.

A teacher asks students to create a podcast on issues within their community. Which element of Active Learning & engagement does this activity fall within?

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Creativity

• Critical Thinking

Answer explanation

When students create the podcast, they are communicating ideas to an authentic audience. As they would create this podcast, they can use tools to create cover art for the podcast, and discussing issues within their communities allows students to look at their world through a critical lens.

The Implementation Continuum can be used to

Answer explanation

The Implementation Continuum is not designed to be evaluative. It is to help educators identify where they currently fall along their journey.