The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is an international organization that seeks to transform teaching and learning through technology and adherence to the ISTE Standards.
The ISTE Standards for Students are very important because the purpose of education is to ensure student learning. The learning environment is technology which can accelerate the rate of learning. The following standards are geared to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process.
Empowered Learner
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
Digital Citizen
Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
Knowledge Constructor
Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
Innovative Designer
Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
Computational Thinker
Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.
Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
Global Collaborator
Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.
My favorite standard is the creative communicator and global collaborator. Three learning activities I could assign my students to help them reach this standard are:
- Finish the Story: This activity can improve communication skills. Start a story and have the student finish it.
- Coding: Students can work in teams to create animated stories using block-based coding. After creating it, they can talk about their creation. They can practice communication.
- Audiobooks: Students can listen to or read along with audiobooks to hear how the speaker pronounces and enunciates different words or phrases.
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