Meeting for Wed. 2/12/14

Our agenda is to pick up where we left off on the Digital Citizenship curriculum project:

1. Work on updates to both curriculum map and major elements definitions; also review and comment on others
2. Think about connections to courses and subject areas
3. Think about presenting this to teachers- foundation for training: the what and the why
4. Next steps will be determining suggested lessons and resources to connect to

[Meeting postponed to 2/26 due to scheduling issues]

Meeting notes 1/29/14

Teach Committee meeting
1/29/14
In attendance: M. Hauck, P. Conis, K. Roos, M. Joyce, M. Nelson, C. Bosco

To discuss: Moving to Google School- purpose,  interview team, interview Qs

Discussion of google apps for schools plan
Looking at Mike H's brainstorm.  Start with adding interview questions.  Mike has taken  notes and will add them to the document.  It is editable by members of the committee, so continue to add to it.

Adding to list of usability features. Same as above- document is editable.  Continue to view adn makde changes

Nominees to interview team: Matt and Karl. More information about this to come

Monday final document will go to Suzanne.

Next meeting Wednesday, 2/12/14.  

Meeting Notes 1/8/14

Tech committee meeting notes

1/8/14

In attendance: Mike H, D. Parker, P. Conis, C. Bosco

Discussion of updates to definitions and curriculum map

Work on updates to both, also review and comment on others

Think about connections to courses and subject areas

Think about presenting this to teachers- foundation for training: the what and the why

Next steps will be determining suggested lessons and resources to connect to 

There will be a combination of specific lessons connected to specific courses, but also pervasive idea that is related to all subject areas at all time

next meeting 1/22/14

before then refine your element definition and review and provide feedback on others

Agenda for Wed., 8 Jan

In the library at 2:30...

After the long hiatus, our agenda for today will be:

1. Reset; where were we at before break
2. Review work of teams on definition of major elements and enumeration of constituent components
3. Discussion of next steps

Meeting notes 12/18/13

Tech committee meeting notes

12/18/13

In attendance: D. Parker, L. Lynch, P. Conis, M. Joyce, M. Hauck, C. Bosco, K. Roos, M. Nelson

Discussion of making contributions to the digital literacy curriculum overview.- some contributions have already been made.  Look over existing contributions, add to them, comment on them, continue to add to it

Need to make the document explicitly clear so that others can use it easily- need clear definitions so it is explainable and understandable to others

Next steps is to decide how topics fit into existing classes and curricula and distribute them accordingly

 Next meeting- solidify working definitions and get to next steps

Mike will crosswalk with DESE and ISD standards

Next meeting: January 8, 2013

Minutes of Meeting 12/4

Attending: Courtney, Doris, Laura, Matt, Mike, Tammy, Michael

meeting materials used for discussion.

Following the planned agenda, we first discussed the definition of Digital Citizenship, beginning with the suggested options in the meeting materials.  After brief discussion it was agreed that a good working definition is the one from Cable in the Classroom group:

“Digital Citizenship is a holistic and positive approach to helping children learn how to be safe and secure as well as smart and effective participants in a digital world.”

Next, we discussed what would constitute the breakdown into primary or principal components.  Again, using the meeting materials as a guide, we looked various schemes and decided that the five component breakout made the most sense.  This is Communications, Awareness, Information Literacy, Technical Literacy, and Health and Safety.

Finally we discussed what the final product of this effort would be.  It will be a comprehensive curriculum map which will match each component & topic of Digital Citizenship to an appropriate place in the academic and or vocational curriculum and grade level.  Each row (discreet topic) would map to the DESE Tech Literacy Standards.  Each entry on the map (row and column entry) would contain the topic or topics to be covered, links to support materials, and example lesson plans (where appropriate).

Next Steps:

• Refine, republish curriculum map template - Micahel
• Refine definition of each major category (5) - teams assigned by Michael
• enumerate the sub components of each major category - each team

Next Meeting: Wednesday, 12/18 2:30 pm Library

Meeting Agenda Wednesday, Dec. 4

At our last meeting we discussed next steps for implementation of our Strategic Technology Plan.  We decided that the next significant 'project' to take on was the development of  a Digital Citizenship curriculum to cross all departments and grade levels.

I've posted several documents to the shared folder regarding digital citizenship.  The document Curriculum Resource List has a variety of links to other useful materials.  Please try to take a few moments and scan over some of this material.

For our meeting discussion:

1. What is "Digital Citizenship"?
2. Examples of comprehensive curricula
3. Materials and resources to draw on
4. Organizing our approach