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Grade: Beginners-Intermediate (4-8 grade) Grade: Beginners-Intermediate (4-8 grade)
Established Goals (Standards)
1. Creativity and Innovation Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
Students: a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

2. Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.
d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

5. Digital Citizenship Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

6. Technology Operations and Concepts Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students: a. understand and use technology systems.
b. select and use applications effectively and productively.
c. troubleshoot systems and applications.
d. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.

Enduring Understandings Essential Questions
  • Students will apply developing language structures to describe their own lives and the lives of others. (i.e. expressing themselves in first, second & third person).
  • Students will learn to interact with other language learners via the use of digital tools.
  • Students will collaborate with other using the target language as a mean of communication.
  • Students will demonstrate responsible use of information and technology.
  • Students will understand and use Voicethread
  • Students will create narratives and dialogues as a mean of personal or group expression.
  • How do I use the target language to talk about myself?(likes/dislikes, family, free time, school, etc.)
  • How do I use the target language to talk about others?
  • How do I use the target language to interact with others?
  • How can I use technology to express my creativity and enhance my personal narrative.
  • How do I use technology tools to collaborate in the target language?
  • How can I manage personal information about myself and others safely?
  • How can I be a global digital citizen?
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
GRASPS Task Six Facets of Understanding
Goal: You will use the target language to develop a personal narrative and dialogue with other language students around the world using voicethread as a digital tool.

Role: You are interacting and connecting with other language students around the globe.

Audience: Modern language students, parents and teachers from around the world.

Situation: You may work in small groups, partners or individuals.

Product Performance: You will create a voicethread presentation about yourself and comment on others' voicethread presentations.

Extension:You will establish a relationship and continue to interact with those students around the world. 		(Explain, Apply, Interpret, Perspective, Self-Knowledge, Empathize)
Explain: Students practice their acquired language skills in class to talk about themselves.

interpret: Students make personal use of the language by applying it to their own lives and the lives of their virtual peers.
They use images to represent themselves as individuals.
They use the target language to explain and justify these representations and comment on virtual peers'.

Apply: Apply the voicethread task (GRASP)

Perspective: Students reflect on how the project helped them connect to other language learners around the world.
How did this project help them better understand the lives of others?

Self-Knowledge:
Learning to self-evaluate their process of language acquisition and proficiency.

Empathize:
Language learners share many of the same challenges and experiences.

Lesson Notes:



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