2019 San Antonio SI Digital Teaching and Learning–Foundations: Secondary

Digital Teaching and Learning–Foundations: Secondary brings educators together to experience and explore digital strategies and resources, using collaboration, communication, and choice to engage students in their learning and knowledge creation. Participants connect with colleagues in building a technology-rich classroom culture, infusing AVID methodologies both digitally and face to face. This strand supports experienced AVID Elective and secondary AVID Schoolwide teachers in blending WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading) strategies with technology tools to prepare students with the skills that they need to be college- and career-ready. Participants are supported during the process with best-practice pedagogy, resources, and guidance on how to use technology to facilitate student learning and engagement.   Upon completion of the strand, participants will: 1. Model and blend WICOR with digital strategies to engage students in safe, collaborative, and self-directed learning practices, empowering them with opportunities to initiate their own learning paths with outcomes that can be strengthened with the use of technology. 2. Model, intentionally teach, and support students’ digital literacy skills to build students’ research fluency, communication, and citizenship skills. 3. Model and apply growth-mindset practices of language, processes, and routines, which impact students’ attitudes and beliefs about using technology, to build and maintain a positive growth-mindset culture for the classroom.