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Leveraging Tools, Texts, and Talk in My Teaching Context

I want to preface this blog post by saying that the following response was created with the hope I would be able to use a similar lesson in a future math classroom. As we read for this module, digital literacy is by no means isolated to the language arts classroom and I am compelled to extend the concept in my future math space.  The prompt for the given assignment asked us to, "give an example of an activity or project that you have or could assign in your teaching context/discipline that could leverage analog and digital learning experiences toward a complex learning goal." With that being said, I immediately thought of how to incorporate coding into an algebra curriculum and further, expanding beyond the screen with a (brief due to the frustrating tension of state testing) lesson regarding hackers and the social impacts hacking may have in our digitized world.  Ideally, the lesson would begin with an introduction on coding and how at first glance the language may look extr...