Applied Digital Skills lessons can be customized in many different ways to meet the needs of your students. Adapt lessons to fit a different subject area, align more with your current course content, provide more structure, or give more guidance to students who may need it.
Here are some tips to help you adapt Applied Digital Skills lessons for your own classroom:
- Provide a more structured lesson by watching the videos as a whole group and discussing each step as a class before students complete the activities.
- Adjust the project that students complete to align the lesson with course content you are currently teaching. For example, in the Create a Resume in Google Docs lesson, students can develop a resume for a fictional character or historical figure instead of for themselves.
- Think creatively about how you can adapt lessons to other subject areas. For example, have students use the Write an If-Then Adventure Story lesson to create a story that revolves around meeting famous scientists, mathematicians, or artists. Or students can write stories that are set in a particular time period for Social Studies class.
- Make a group project an individual one or vice versa, based on what you know about how your students work best.
- Partner students up if many of them seem to be having difficulty with the lesson.
- If the lesson involves brainstorming, reduce the number of items the students should brainstorm to save time. Or, provide a list of topics for students to choose from that align more with your course content.