The second annual national Digital Learning Day is on February 6, 2013. This is a day to celebrate innovative teachers and instructional strategies.

Technology has changed the way we do everything from grocery shopping, to listening to music, and reading books. You may want to take this moment to consider innovative uses of technology at your school or in your classroom to ensure every student experiences personalized learning with great teaching. Here is a link to stimulate ideas: Digital Learning Day: Resource Roundup

In California, the California Writing Project (CWP) is coordinating the Digital Learning Day and Beyond initiative, comprised of three components:

Upstanders, Not Bystanders: A Digital Call to Write and Call to Action invites teachers and students, K through university, to write digital genres about historic, public, or personal upstanders. Through podcasts, videos, blogs, Voice Threads, Glogsters, and more, students will describe how this person is an upstander and explain why their upstander serves as a call to action. Educators will work with CWP and Common Sense Media to showcase students’ digital writing on a variety of public forums.

Teaching the New Writing and Reading conference and regional follow-up programs focus on digital teaching and learning strategies that support the Common Core State Standards and foster readiness for college and career writing. 

Digital Citizenship Month, co-sponsored by Common Sense Media during May, will celebrate student writing produced from January-May and also bring students, educators, and parents together to learn strategies for being responsible, thoughtful digital citizens and upstanders in the face of cyberbullying.

For more information or questions about the CWP, link to: http://www.californiawritingproject.org/digital-learning-day.html or email Jayne Marlink at: cwp@berkeley.edu