Based on the ICARE Common Core State Standards, Common Sense Media readings, and my own personal experience, proper citations are a very important skill for students to learn. Common Sense Media states that "in a world where anything can be copied, pasted, and even claimed as one's own, it's critical that kids learn to correctly cite sources."
A Digital Literacy skill that leads to proper citations is paraphrasing. Each year when my class does state reports I run into the problem of cutting and pasting. To alleviate the situation, we do paraphrase work called Paraphrase It! in which students are given a short paragraph to adjust, and reword. The students enjoy the short daily lesson, some even think of paraphrasing as a word puzzle. Here is a link to the resource. Once students are comfortable with paraphrasing, I introduce a Digital Literacy lesson relating to citations. The best tool that I have found to teach citations is a writing strategy called R.A.C.E. which also happens to support CAASPP writing skills. The R.A.C.E. writing strategy can be incorporated anytime a student is asked to used text evidence and details to support their answers . They are to R-Restate the Questions, A-Answer the Question, C-Cite Evidence, E-Explain Why Important, Sum it Up. R.A.C.E. teaches students how to use fact based-evidence to support their ideas by referencing applicable sources. Here is a link to the resource, there many others online as well. I enjoyed reviewing the Session #3 resources and I look forward to reading about techniques from other 702 folks and how they promote Digital Literacy in their own students.
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Ryan Strole
2/22/2020 02:47:47 pm
Ahhh... I like your take on digital literacy. Your post makes me want to take a closer look at the framework I implement for my class that exists in online formats. I certainly use Google Docs to teach Common Core ELA standards, but I didn't think about that in the context of this prompt.
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Evrim Cakir
2/23/2020 11:22:13 am
Proper citations! So hard to teach that to the kids, when they even find the proper ones. Its an on going struggle and the struggle is real.
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Kirsten Fouquet
2/23/2020 01:42:01 pm
Learning how to cite is HUGE. Students are taught for so long in the primary grades how to copy (on purpose and for good reasons) that when it comes time for them to paraphrase and cite where they are getting information it is such a hard skill to learn because they have been copying for SO long! I love your game of paraphrase it, such a fun way to teach your kids!
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Tracy Moskowite
2/23/2020 10:57:17 pm
I couldn't agree more that paraphrasing and citing sources is hard. I still don't think I fully understand it. I am 30 years old and grew up on computers and didn't know that if I used a picture off of google that wasn't open source that it would not be ok. This class is teaching me about the digital version of citing a sources as going to school the farthest I learned was for a single website, books, magazines, and newspapers.
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