ISTE Teacher Standards
1. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.
A. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
B. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources
C. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes
D. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments
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This lesson plan allows the students t take charge of their learning. It asks them the question "What kinds of things do holidays celebrate?" and then allows them to explore the question themselves. Then finally, at the end it lets them come up with a creative presentation to show what they've learned.
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Production tools, such as the book creator, allows students to demonstrate the things they have learned through a creative means. Production tools can allow students to collaborate on a finished product that they can share with their peers and parents.
2. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the Standards-S.
A. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
B. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress
C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources
D. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching
Kahoot is a great online tool that engages students in assessing what they already know or have learned. This creates engaging online reviews over topics students have been learning in class. It is a diverse tool that can be used in all subjects to review terms or ideas.
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Hour of Code introduces kids to coding through activities that interest students because it uses characters and worlds that the students already know and love. Hour of code utilizes engaging games to lead the students into coming up with creative and unique solutions to the problem they are presented with while also giving them base skills they can apply in their futures as coding has become a more prominent need.
3. Model digital age work and learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.
A. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations
B. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation
C. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats
D. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning
Seesaw is an online classroom management system. It allows you to assign students homework, give the whole class updates, as well as keep the parents at home informed on what's happening in the classroom.
Hour of Code is an engaging tool not only for students but also for teachers. It can be a great introduction to coding for yourself if you've never done much coding before. Working on Hour of Code before you let your students use it would allow you to be more prepared if students struggle with it or have questions, as well as increasing your own knowledge of the online world.
4. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.
A. Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources
B. Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources
C. Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information
D. Develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools
Through my Twitter, I can be an example for students on how to interact with others online. Using Twitter in the classroom would enhance how students could learn about digital citizenship. It would also engage the students more by putting them in the online world already.
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Pinterest is another media platform on which I can promote digital citizenship to my students. I like Pinterest because it allows you to collect and organize ideas in one space.
5. Engage in professional growth and leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources.
A. Participate in local and global learning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning
B. Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others
C. Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning
D. Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community
In this twitter chat, I participated in a conversation with teachers and educators from California about integrating technology into classrooms. This allowed me to hear the thoughts and opinions of current educators on how they effectively use different tools in their classrooms. It also started the creation of my own Personal Learning Network.
In this badge, I watched a video about plagiarism. Keeping yourself informed is the first step in keeping your students informed as well. Teaching your students about plagiarism and setting an example for them to follow, is a way to show professional leadership.