BLC17

What does the selfie tell us about ourselves -- as we take and retake, create and revise to capture the “just right” picture? How does putting a series of selfies together create a landscape that becomes the learner’s story? How does this story become the teacher’s instructional story? And, finally how do these stories create a community of deep readers, talkers, and thinkers? This presentation focuses on the power of talk and reflection in student lives. The Selfie Center will be introduced as a powerful model and pedagogical tool in promoting students’ positive digital identities. This presentation will offer a new definition of selfie as story, and will highlight the use of video as a “selVie.” Selfie videos will be presented showing students in kindergarten through sixth grades at deep levels of understanding and reflection. Student presenter, Olivia Van Ledtje (aka LivBIt) will share how she has crafts her video selfies around her passions as a learner and uses social media to make connections to teachers and students around the world.
Participants will:
• Consider the ideals of digital citizenship, student voice and the
power of audience in the digital realm
• Learn how implementing a Selfie Center can enrich students’
thinking and create avenues for feedback
• Walk away with simple, effect, and dynamic ways to integrate
video in their classrooms and techniques for encouraging
student talk, thinking, and metacognition.