PBS Learning Virtual Professional Learning Series is created for teachers—by teachers—to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With an emphasis on fun, engaging, accessible, and free tools for classrooms, these bite-sized opportunities are designed to connect educators with each other and PBS shows, themes, and content.

Your involvement in your child’s education can lead to better learning results and outcomes. This “Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide” will inform you, as a parent or caregiver, as you monitor your child’s progress as your child accesses and uses technology for learning.

This guide aims to help all parents and caregivers, including those who have limited experience with digital tools, those who are expert with these tools, and anywhere in between. Each section starts with foundational pieces and builds from there.

Part 1: Benefits of Digital Learning
Meeting the Learning Needs of Your Child: Personalized Learning
Understanding Your Child’s Progress: Competency-Based Learning
Connect with Your Community and Beyond: Developing Partnerships
Part 2: Enabling Digital Learning
Ensuring Your Child’s Access: Personal Learning Devices
Ensuring Your Child’s Access: Internet Service
Ensuring Your Child’s Safety, Privacy, and Responsibility Online

This unit is designed to accompany the study of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Resources encourage students to recognize a variety of propaganda techniques and to connect those techniques to media that they can find in their everyday lives. Resources also help students to understand the historical uses of propaganda by governments and political parties to influence public opinion. Resources can be used independently of the novel.

Los proyectos de esta guía utilizan un enfoque centrado en los alumnos para el aprendizaje. En lugar de solo aprender acerca de la IA con videos o conferencias, los alumnos que realizan estos proyectos son participantes activos en la exploración de ella. En el proceso, los estudiantes trabajarán directamente con tecnologías innovadoras de IA, participarán en actividades no en línea para ampliar su comprensión de cómo funcionan las tecnologías de IA y crearán diversos productos auténticos
desde modelos de aprendizaje automático hasta videojuegos— para demostrar su aprendizaje.

PROYECTO 1: Programación con aprendizaje automático
PROYECTO 2: Jugadores asistidos por IA en videojuegos
PROYECTO 3: Uso de la IA para planificar movimientos robóticos
PROYECTO 4: El aprendizaje automático como un servicio

Esta guía ofrece proyectos centrados en los alumnos que pueden enseñar directamente estándares de áreas de estudio en conjunto con comprensiones fundamentales de los que es la IA, cómo funciona y cómo impacta a la sociedad. Fueron considerados varios enfoques clave para diseñar estos proyectos. Entender estos enfoques sustentará su comprensión y la implementación de los proyectos de esta guía, así como su trabajo para diseñar más actividades que integren la enseñanza sobre la IA en su plan de estudios.

PROYECTO 1: Lo que la IA hace bien y lo que no hace tan bien
PROYECTO 2: Datos de entrenamiento y aprendizaje automático
PROYECTO 3: Los sentidos comparados con los sensores
PROYECTO 4: Navegación e IA

Esta guía ofrece proyectos centrados en los alumnos que pueden enseñar directamente estándares de áreas de estudio en conjunto con comprensiones fundamentales de los que es la IA, cómo funciona y cómo impacta a la sociedad. Fueron considerados varios enfoques clave para diseñar estos proyectos. Entender estos enfoques sustentará su comprensión y la implementación de los proyectos de esta guía, así como su trabajo para diseñar más actividades que integren la enseñanza sobre la IA en su plan de estudios.

PROYECTO 1: Chatbots de IA
PROYECTO 2: Desarrollo de una mirada crítica
PROYECTO 3: Uso de la IA para resolver problemas del medio ambiente
PROYECTO 4: Leyes para la IA

En esta guía, la exploración de la IA por parte de los alumnos se enmarca en el contexto de las consideraciones éticas, y en concordancia con los estándares, conceptos y profundidad adecuados para varias materias de K–12. Dependiendo del nivel de sus alumnos y la cantidad de tiempo que tenga disponible, puede completar todas las actividades de Inicio hasta las actividades de Demostraciones culminantes; puede seleccionar actividades de la lista; o puede llevar el aprendizaje de los alumnos más lejos, aprovechando las extensiones y recursos adicionales proporcionados. Para los alumnos sin experiencia previa de formación en la IA, la exposición misma a las actividades de aprendizaje guiadas creará una comprensión de su mundo que probablemente no tenían antes. Y para aquellos con conocimientos previos en informática o con la IA, los proyectos y recursos completos seguirán desafiando su razonamiento y los expondrán a nuevas tecnologías y aplicaciones de la IA en diversos campos de estudio.

PROYECTO 1: Lo justo es justo
PROYECTO 2: ¿Quién tiene el control?
PROYECTO 3: Las ventajas y desventajas de la tecnología de la IA
PROYECTO 4: La IA y el trabajador del siglo XXI

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This media literacy unit was designed and piloted with junior English classes at the start of the school year. Activities can easily be adapted to suit secondary students at various levels. Within the unit, students analyze corporate logos, corporate advertising, movie trailers and stereotypes found in media related to Native American culture. Within the unit, students also learn how to consider the ways in which media appeals to ethos, pathose and logos and how to identify the tone of a piece of media. 

The activities in this weekly reading routine from Student Achievement Partners (Achieve the Core website) are designed to support growth in all three areas of reading fluency (accuracy, rate, and expression). Detailed guidance is given on how to implement the routine during in-person (or virtual synchronous learning), virtual asynchronous learning, or limited access/technology situations. 

This resource is intended to help school and district leaders understand, reflect upon, and prioritize actions to improve student learning in remote settings. The guide:

Is organized around five key school leadership focus areas, which enable critical best practices

Highlights specific school-based “Power Moves,” examples and resources,

Can be used in concert with the accompanying deeper Remote Learning Reflection Tool to help leaders assess current readiness and practice and then work with their teams and technical assistance partners to choose areas for highest-impact.

This resource guide is based on a three-session series to support leaders in building staff capacity for implementing remote and distance learning models. It is openly licensed (free!) and includes concrete resources to begin designing and launching effective remote learning. Each session includes a set of slides that contain basic information on the topic and can also be used in team professional learning sessions. This document also includes playlists of additional resources and artifacts to accompany each session that teams can explore.
Session A: Introduction to Remote Learning
Session B: Driving Remote Instructional Quality and Improvement
Session C: Building Staff Capacity Remotely

Learning Management Systems (LMS) specialists from the Washington Association of Educational Service Districts have put together a list of key words and their meanings to help families become familiar with the basic vocabulary around LMS. Available in multiple languages.

This document highlights privacy and equity considerations that emerge when students are required by districts to use video in online classrooms and explores alternative ways to measure student engagement that account for these concerns.

Future of Privacy website is available under a Creative Commons Attribution License : https://fpf.org/privacy-policy
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This “School Leader Digital Learning Guide” is a resource to help you consider, plan, fund, implement, maintain, and adapt learning programs that meet the unique needs and requirements of the students and teachers that you serve.

This “School Leader Digital Learning Guide” is part of a series of guides, including the “Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide” and “Teacher Digital Learning Guide,” intended to support parents and families, teachers, and education leaders in leveraging the capabilities of digital tools and resources for teaching and learning.

Modules 1 through 4 are organized around essential distance learning topics for anyone who is supporting a student whilst in their care. Each module invites choice and personalization. These self-paced, independent experiences are designed with the hope that you will tailor your online experience to your individual supporting needs and interests.
Module 1: What is a Learning Management System (LMS)
Module 2: Creating an At-Home Learning System
Module 3: Support Like a Coach
Module 4: Encourage a Growth Mindset -Why Struggle is Good for Learning

As schools close their doors as part of public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, educators are faced with how to support the diverse needs of all learners when students are not in school. This guide recognizes that solutions will not be – nor should be – “school as usual,” simply delivered in a virtual environment. Instead, this resource was developed by members of the Council of State Science Supervisors to provide guidance around how to support student science learning during these unique circumstances. Image by April Bryant from Pixabay 

This guide is designed to provide important resources and recommendations to support teacher implementation of digital learning.

This “Teacher Digital Learning Guide” is part of a series of guides including the “Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide” and “School Leader Digital Learning Guide” intended to support teachers, parents, families, and leaders in leveraging the capabilities of digital tools and resources for teaching and learning.

This interactive lesson helps students understand how companies use algorithms to sort job applicants. It also encourages students to reflect on how digital data mining also can contribute to the hiring process. Students examine resumes and digital data to consider the ways in which our data may open or close opportunities in an increasingly digitized hiring market.

These easy-to-use guides have been crafted by teacher librarians to help K12 educators select and effectively implement commonly-adopted digital learning tools in Washington State. Specifically designed for classroom educators, this resource bank provides links, support and guidance for the effective use of over 20 digital learning tools already in use in many classrooms and schools across the state.