Some key goals for literacy are reading comprehension, being able to identify main ideas, and summarization skills. There are many excellent practices that can help students develop these abilities. Recently I came across a creative technique called " Text Reduction Strategy" ( see the article here by Andrea Heick at TeachThought).
Our group compiled a list of resources to share with staff as part of the staf dev. plan we created. The resources focus primarily on digital citizenship, blogging, and PLNs. If any of these are of use or you haven't come across them yet, feel free to explore at your leisure.
This is a Google Slide presentation ideal for using with educators. I would use this as a fall kick off to the school year in informing teachers about copyright and resources available to them and their students.
I love this tool. It allows me to store my articles online, highlight, draw or write right on it, share with others. Allows for easy sign in with google, great for my students' research and close reading online skills.
"Free PDF editor, online in your browser, desktop or mobile. Edit & share PDFs for free, send faxes from the browser - even on iPhone or iPad. No software, no commitment, & no strings attached."
Google's new open source project essentially aims to take the headache or mystery out of the process by providing the framework by which anyone can quickly create these types of interactive learning experiences and add them to their site. But, beyond that, Oppia also has potentially interesting implications for teachers, and not necessarily in a way that reduces their concern of one day being replaced by a robotic or holographic, AI version of themselves.