Reading Review Blog Post #2

Resource 1: The book Social LEADia by Jennifer Casa-Todd.

The focus of this book is to move students from digital citizenship to digital leadership. According to Casa-Todd, for too long the focus has been on protecting our students from the dangers of social media. Part of digital literacy can and should be empowering students to make a positive impact in the lives of others and in the world. Casa-Todd stresses the importance of adult mentorship and gradual release of responsibility to students as they become more media literate and become positive online change-makers.

Resource 2: The website: Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything http://www.schrockguide.net/

Kathy Schrock is an instructional technology specialist.

This website contains her current online resources and tools to support classroom instruction. It has an extensive number of very useful links to everything from: information literacy, sketch-noting workshop, SAMR and Bloom’s taxonomies, a link to her blog, infographics…the list is long. She advocates “putting your whole self in” to technology use in education. Educators have to “embed technology meaningfully” into lessons. Days could be spent exploring this site. There is so much to learn here.

Resource 3: The website: Five Moore Minutes by Shelley Moore. https://fivemooreminutes.com/about

This website is authored by Shelley Moore. She releases content weekly on inclusive education. Her site offers: resources, research and professional development activities. Her videos are no longer than five minutes long. The site also includes a link to her podcasts.

Resource 4: The article “Preliminary Lessons about Supporting Participation and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms” by Mary Morningstar et al.

This article documents a study of how highly inclusive classrooms support participation and learning of all students—those who do and those who do not have significant support needs. Inclusive education benefits both students with and without disabilities. The study looks at a range of supports and tries to figure out what are the most effective ways of how to teach in inclusive classrooms. The article includes a discussion of Universal Design for Learning.

Resource 5: The article Digital Ethics Now by Allan Luke

This article addresses ethics and the use of technology. The author, Allan Luke, posits that, “The educational challenge raised by digital culture is not one of skill or technological competence, but one of participation and ethics.” Given the current world political climate the article explores the need to harness technology and social media to learn to live together. Luke sees this as the seminal problem for society today. The article proposes that ethics and what it means to be human is the core curricula for school.

Works cited

Casa-Todd, Jennifer. Social LEADia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership. Dave Burgess Consulting, 2017.

LUKE, ALLAN. “Digital Ethics Now.” Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, July 2018, pp. 185–198. EBSCOhost, doi:10.20360/langandlit29416.

Moore, Shelley. “Guiding Questions of Inclusion!” – Inclusive Education: It's Not More Work, It's Different Work!, fivemooreminutes.com/.

Morningstar, Mary E., et al. “Preliminary Lessons about Supporting Participation and Learning in Inclusive Classrooms.” Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, vol. 40, no. 3, Sept. 2015, pp. 192–210. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1075297&site=ehost-live&scope=site.


Schrock, Kathy. “Home Page.” Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything, www.schrockguide.net/.