Cycle 1: The Organized Learner: Canvas, Google & Community

Core Competencies

Digital Organization & Platform Navigation: Master Canvas navigation, mobile app integration, task management mechanics, and Google Drive folder hierarchies.
Executive Functioning & Community Building: Establish sustainable digital productivity habits and collaboratively build classroom norms through active listening.

Learning Objective

Students will be introduced to the foundational framework of the Digital Media Literacy course, cultivate classroom culture through active listening icebreakers, and collaboratively establish community norms. They will demonstrate technical competency in platform navigation across Canvas and Google Workspace—including mobile and web interface workflows, Canvas organizational tools (Calendar event creation, To-Do list auto-clearing mechanics, and self-help technical resources), and Google Drive file management (color-coding, starring, and folder hierarchy). Through these practices, students will apply core executive functioning strategies to build sustainable, efficient academic systems.

Learning Targets ("I Can" Statements)

I understand the roadmap for this course and know my classmates better.
I can contribute to our classroom's community norms through active listening.
I can navigate Canvas across web and mobile platforms to track assignments, manage To-Do items, and schedule custom events.
I can establish an organized, color-coded Google Drive folder hierarchy for all my classes.

Evidence of Learning

Community Norms: Active group participation and peer synthesis during the active listening icebreaker and norms creation.
Canvas Technical Check: Direct observation of Canvas web app navigation, phone app installation, and one verified user-created Calendar event or custom To-Do item.
Google Workspace Audit (Primary Deliverable): Visual inspection of color-coded, starred, and systematically named class folders in Google Drive.

Standards Addressed

ISTE 1.1 Empowered Learner: Students leverage digital tools to manage and organize learning goals.
ISTE 6.2 Creative Communicator: Students collaborate effectively using digital and interpersonal tools.
AASL 2.1.4: Use technology and other tools to analyze and organize information.