Digital Age Best Practice

I wrote up a lesson plan on weather exploration last semester. The lesson had the students go outside and observe the weather each day and record their findings in a weather journal. The students would also make predictions about the weather the following day and relate the weather to the current season. All of this was recorded in their weather journals with pictures from magazines and illustrations. The digital age best practice would be used to make the lesson active and engaging for the students. It would include collaborative learning to further engage the students. A part of digital best practice is that student questions drive inquiry, so this lesson could be modified so that the students could still make their predictions about the weather the following day and then check and compare their predictions with what meteorologists predict online. Students could also find the temperature each day online and compare it to other countries temperatures. And maybe instead of having them record their findings in a journal they could record them in a blog and upload actual pictures from the environment that they are observing. These activities will encourage investigation and engagement of the students, which is a part of the digital best practice.