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ETL523 Assessment 1- Part A & B: Digital Citizenship Guide

The context for this guide is an American Curriculum International School based in Jeju Island, South Korea. The target audience of the guide are teachers and families of elementary school aged children. The chosen topic was Digital Citizenship in the curriculum, with reference to the context’s digital learning environment of Seesaw: The Learning Journal, embedded into the discussion and digital artefact.  Digital Citizenship: A guide for educators and families Click to read this book, made with Book Creator https://read.bookcreator.com  

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Experiencing Digital Literature Part B: Critical Reflection of Digital Literature Experiences

“We find these digital picture books to be the most exciting innovation in literature for children in a long time—and also the scariest” (Yokota, & Teale, 2014, p. 577). What makes a good digital text, what counts as one, and what purpose do digital texts serve? During this assignment my idea of what counts as digital literature has expanded drastically. A main point I found was that there are blurred lines between defining modes of digital literature. Biancarosa and Griffiths (2012) confirm that terms such as e-book and e-reader are not always used, and that Read More …

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Digital Literature Review 3: Interactive Book

Review 3: Interactive Book from PebbleGo Title: Thoroughbred Horses Capstone. (2020a). Thoroughbred Horses. PebbleGo. https://site.pebblego.com/modules/1/categories/34/articles/239 For the purpose of this review, an interactive text was chosen from the website PebbleGo. PebbleGo is a database of nonfiction digital texts for children in grades K-3. This interactive book was chosen to evaluate for the digital features of the text and its digital affordances. This text can be categorized as a “digital narrative” (Walsh, 2013, p. 186), as it was produced using software. It also falls under Lamb’s (2011) categorization of a “reference database” which “provides nonlinear and Read More …