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II. ** Cool Tools Review and Application Plan ** - Write a review and reflection of the Cool Tools sessions you attended as a part of the Institute. In addition, create a contextualized lesson or unit plan in which you conceptualize putting these tools into action as an instructor and foresee having your students engaging in activities using these tools for content specific learning. //DUE:// Wednesday, 7-18 or sooner. Note that the assignment title is a link -- click on it to find a page where all of you will have a name link or will be able to create one. Click on your name to get to the page where you will post your Cool Tools Review/Reflection and Application Plan or create a link using your name (see John or Carl if you need help with this).


 * Directions: ** Respond to the questions below. Highlight your name below to and create a link create your Teacher Leadership Plan wiki page and post your leadership plan assignment.


 * Due Date: ** Friday, 7-20 or sooner.

1. Now that you’ve had this professional development experience, how are you defining “new literacies?” How do you think your definition has changed or evolved this week?

2. Describe some new literacies that you learned about this week? What did you know about these topics before the week began and how has your experience this week contributed to your understanding of these new literacies?

3. In what ways are the new literacies prompted by technology? How do they affect one another?

4. How do new literacies affect the way we think about #|academic content? Describe an examples of how some specific academic content is affected by changes in the ways we reading write and thinking (i.e. new literacies).

5. How do new literacies affect the way we think about our teaching practices? How do they affect the development of new teaching practices or approaches to teaching?

6. During the week, you learning about several conceptual / theoretical frameworks for understanding the new literacies including, project-based inquiry, TPACK, Bloom’s revised cognitive theory, online identity, and #|global literacies (i.e. cultural competence, cultural awareness, cosmopolitanism). Describe your personal perspective on new literacies as it is informed by these conceptual and theoretical ideas.

7. How does the design process you learned about in your design studio work and the video digging deeper session support your understanding of the creative process?

8. You learned this week about how to manage, and in some cases create, your online identity. What action steps will you take (are you taking) to manage and further extend your online identity?

9. If you had one more day in the Institute, what would you like to learn more about and why?