Appendix A Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Book Appendix B YouTube Video: Brown Bear, Brown Bear (text to music with book art) by Timothy Ryan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaDDsT9IAWc Appendix C Alphabet Chart Click to access letter-chart.pdf Appendix D (1) Pictures of animals featured in the book Appendix D (2) Pictures of animals featured in …
Author Archives: Indra Kogi
E-Learning Environment
Hello fellow educators, parents and students! In the spirit of educating children and teaching them media literacy, I am introducing three lesson plans that you may find useful in that endeavor. Please click on the link below to see my short introduction. https://gosynth.com/p/s/jkgnja Children are being exposed to all sorts of media from a tender …
References
Alber, R. (2014). How important is teaching literacy in all content areas? Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/literacy-instruction-across-curriculum-importance Carrotsandcandy. (2012, February 6). I’m quite unique (celebrating our differences) [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PnV8RbL6Wo Dodge, A.M., Husain, N., & Duke, N.K. (2011). Connected kids? K-2 children’s use and understanding of the internet. Language Arts, 89(2), 86-98. Flipgrid. (2019). Retrieved from …
Lesson Plan #3 : Types of Vehicles
Rationale This lesson plan will introduce various types of vehicles and what they are used for. Their shapes and sounds that they make will be discussed as well. The children will also identify which vehicles are typically used to transport people. The plan will connect to other environmental print that they encounter when they are …
Lesson Plan #2 : I’m Quite Unique
Rationale The goal of this curriculum unit is to bring to the forefront the uniqueness of each individual and for the children to embrace their own unique qualities as well as accept the uniqueness of others. “Media literacy is an important part of multicultural education because many people’s conceptions of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and …
Lesson #1 : Watch Me Move
Rationale The purpose of this lesson is for the children to cultivate a love for reading and to expose them to the different purposes of the internet and its online tools (YouTube for this specific lesson plan). As stated before, many young children are exposed to some type of digital media in their home environment, …
Participatory Media Literacy
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines participatory as “characterized by or involving participation especially: providing the opportunity for individual participation” (Merriam-Webster, 2019). I was curious to see the history of the use of this word and the graph below clearly aligns with my thoughts on this subject. The use of the word starts to trend in the 1970s. …
Hello World!
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in a different time-Chinese Proverb I have been thinking of ways to reach out to other parents who might be in the same boat as me when it comes to technology and children. As my son becomes more exposed to all kinds …
Whose responsibility is it to teach Digital and Media Literacy skills? What issues and challenges do they face?
In the spring semester of this year, I had the opportunity to take a class called Social Media and Beyond at Northeastern University (NEU). One of my assignments was to track my social media use for five days which you can view here. Although this only covered a small fraction of the digital and media …
Embrace Tech Education for Children 