 Welcome to Unit 3 of the Edgy Goals MOOC. It's Shelly Saunches-Terrell and I'm happy to help facilitate your learning throughout this unit. In Unit 3, you will analyze a digital learning approach and present the key points to your peers so that we all gain insights to several different digital learning approaches. You will also survey students about their digital footprints, digital learning theories and approaches provide educators with insight on how we learn with technology, the internet and social media. Digital learning approaches consider what students are doing online currently and help us design curricula to help students gain the digital skills they need to thrive in a digitally connected world. Our students are growing up in the connected world where they can access knowledge instantly. Additionally, social networks provide students with an audience and community in which to share ideas, knowledge, opinions and passions. Digital learning theories and approaches such as Connectivism, SAMR, RAT, T-PAC, Design Thinking, Digital Blooms and Pyrogogy help teachers develop curricula that get students to use technology to research, curate, annotate, create, innovate, problem solve, collaborate, campaign, reform and think critically. In this unit, you will research one of these digital learning approaches to learn more about the founders and their inspiration and research. You identify the key points of the approach and reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of using this approach with your students. In order for all of us to gain knowledge about many of the different digital learning theories and approaches, we present mind maps of the approach to our peers. Our mind maps will highlight the main points of each digital learning theory and define with examples effective technology integration according to the digital learning approach. Our students join social networks and find an audience and community. Even though students may never meet many of the people in person, they still build trust and friendships with people they need online. However, students need to be mindful what they share digitally does leave an impression. Students will be judged and evaluated by what they have shared, liked and subscribed to online. Students need to realize that anything they share digitally can be copied, spread and used by others in ways the student never expected. Once an image, text, message, video or post goes viral, the student won't be able to completely get rid of its existence. In order for us to understand what our students' digital needs are, we will survey them about how they specifically use the internet, social media and technology in their daily lives. We will find out when our students first start to use technology and connect it to the internet. We will discover what social networks they visit regularly. We will investigate how much our students share about themselves online and how much guidance they have been provided by their parents. Thank you for embarking on your own digital learning journey throughout this course. Thank you for contributing to the knowledge of our online community. Your sharing to this point has provided ideas, resources and examples to help all of us become better teachers. We are looking forward to learning more about the digital approach you analyze. We are also looking forward to learning more about your students' digital footprints and comparing them to our own students' digital footprints.