LITERACY___SPECIAL___INTEREST: 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Addressing Anti-semitism and Sparking Deep Conversations in our Classrooms
by Michele Haiken page 2

To Close the Tech Divide Schools Need to See Parents as Partners by Sana Shaikh page 4

The SPLC Hate Map: Using EdTech to Understand Extremism Close and Far
from Home by Joe Hutcheson page 6

Enhancing Civics Through EdTech Tools by Jacie Maslyk page 8

Quotes, Writing, and Democracy by Mark Gura page 10

PLN Leader

Mark Gura

Posted 12 days ago

The Literacy PLN is looking for exceptional colleagues to recognize. The PLN takes pride in its efforts to highlight outstanding work by educators and to inform other about it. Please help us find candidates to consider for this award!

ISTE Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) support exceptional teaching and learning throughout the year. Once a year, they honor outstanding individuals who have demonstrated excellent work in their job role or topic area. Nominations are currently open!
Educators (from any license area) who create original ways to engage students in quality literacy learning should be acknowledged.

This award recognizes an educator who has developed an exceptional technology-supported literacy practice suitable for replication by colleagues. Preview the questions for this award here.

Have your (or a colleague's) original curriculum creation featured by the ISTE Literacy PLN. Each year the PLN features winning practices on its blog and community space in order to share them with other educators who may benefit from them, either by sharing them with their own students or by modeling their own creative efforts on them.
Be interviewed for the PLN blog – Winners of this award are given a platform with which to share their experience, their thoughts about education, and their inspiration through a focused interview. Interviews appear as online text and/or podcasts and are shared with the ISTE membership and beyond….
Join a select group of creative contributors to the field - The ongoing body of winners of this award constitutes a group of exceptional contributors to our field. Why not take your place among them?
Here are winners from the last 3 years' awards.
a) Dr. Rose Reissman - 2020 Winner
https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2020/05/dr-rose-reissman-2020-winner-of-annual.html
b) Sirhajwan Idek - 2019 Winner
https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2019/05/interview-with-sirhajwan-idek-winner-of.html
c) Tammy Dunbar and Julie Hembree – 2018 Winners
https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2018/05/congratulations-to-iste-literacy-pln.html

*** FOR more information and the application link go to>>> https://www.iste.org/membership/awards/PLN-Awards

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Mark Gura Teacher/Faculty (Higher Ed)
Contributing Editor
EdTech Digest
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