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Digital Literacy Toolkit

Digital Literacy Toolkit

Lifelong Learning by VTS

  • Home
  • Context
    • New Ministry Context
    • New Media & Digital Literacy
    • Advocacy
    • Wider Conversations
  • Research
    • Four Domains of Practice
    • Impact
  • Literacies
    • Navigating Hybrid and Digital Cultures
    • Convening Hybrid and Digital Community
    • Maintaining a Posture of Experimentation
    • Cultivating a Spiritually Wise Digital Habitus
    • Creating and Curating Faith-Based Artifacts
    • Connecting Media Theory to Theological Reflection
    • Presenting Authentically and Pastorally Online
  • Resources
    • Assignments
    • Teaching Activities
    • How-To-Guides
  • Who We Are
  • Contact

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Pedagogical resources and classroom activities (rather than graded assessments) that engage students and model active learning using digital tools.

ABOUT TEACHING ACTIVITIES

We know that the most valuable ministry training establishes good habits and practices that students will carry with them in their future work. Faculty modeling in the classroom plays a huge part in that.
Here’s Charles Foster, senior scholar with the Carnegie Foundation study of clergy education:
We asked seminary deans to identify teachers reflective about their practice. We discovered that … they modeled in their teaching the relevance and significance of disciplinary knowledge and skills, habits and perspectives for clergy practice. They did more. They coached students with varied backgrounds … into those same ways of thinking, being and doing through their repetition in class sessions and assignments. By engaging students in the rehearsal of dispositions, habits, and ways of thinking embedded in the deeper structures of their teaching practices, they cultivated student expertise to prepare them for the pastoral improvisations needed in addressing both familiar and unexpected challenges in daily clergy practice.
Modeling matters in theological education. If it’s true that ministry leaders will be navigating cultures, convening community, presenting pastorally, and cultivating wise habits with the help of technology, then their instructors should be exploring and demonstrating how to approach those same tasks. Our motto: Whenever possible, show—don’t tell.

EXPLORE THE TEACHING ACTIVITIES


Why Ministry? Meme Assignment

September 2, 2019

Lisa Kimball, professor of Christian Education at VTSMargie Baker Memes are funny, memorable, and

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Using Online Reviews to Share Resources

September 2, 2019

Lisa Kimball, professor of Christian Education at VTSMargie Baker, Digital Coach This activity

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Bad Girls of the Bible: Jigsaw Activity

May 14, 2019

Judy Fentress-WilliamsSarah Stonesifer This assignment is part of the Bad Girls of the Bible

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Case Study & Toolkit Assignment: Parish Administration

February 14, 2019

Kathryn GloverMargie Baker This is a two-part assignment for a one-week intensive course on

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Bad Girls of the Bible: Online Course

December 19, 2018

Are you curious about how to design and facilitate an entirely online course? This guide offers a

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Technology Rule of Life

December 19, 2018

Several of our favorite books on technology and faith, including Tweet If You ♥ Jesus and The

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Understanding Networked Religion

December 18, 2018

The ministry landscape facing church leaders today is profoundly shaped by new media ...

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Integrated Christian Practices for Hybrid Lives

December 18, 2018

This teaching activity guides participants through a wide variety of Christian practices to engage

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Mapping Media and Religious Practices

December 18, 2018

This classroom activity by Mary Hess is intended to get participants reflecting on the similarities

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