One of the things I put on a "21st century learning wish list" is, "Implementation of the ISTE Standards for Students." Now, before you go running for the hills ("Please, Renee, we already have enough learning standards!!!"), please don't panic! Adding some new standards to our students' learning experiences, especially these standards, will only serve to enhance what we already do in the classrooms with our kids. Having these standards will also help our kids be ready to tackle the future of learning!
This series of posts will help you become familiar with these standards and hopefully inspire you to augment your curriculum to address some of these standards. There are 7 total standards, and I am hoping to implement all 7 over the course of the next 3 school years, so we can take this slow and make sure we have our brains wrapped around what we are doing!
Today, all I want to do is share the standards briefly with you so you have a basic understanding of them. So without further ado:
- Empowered Learner: Students take an active role in choosing the technology they want to use in order to demonstrate competency or proficiency.
- Digital Citizen: Students recognize their rights and responsibilities living in a digital world; they act in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical.
- Knowledge Constructor: Students curate a variety of digital resources they can use to learn from and create meaningful artifacts.
- Innovative Designer: Students use a variety of technology to work within the design process to create new, imaginative, and useful solutions to problems.
- Computational Thinker: Students use technology to solve problems and develop and test solutions to problems.
- Creative Communicator: Students use technology to communicate clearly and creatively in different formats and for different purposes.
- Global Collaborator: Students broaden their learning experiences by communicating and collaborating with others locally and globally.
Where are we putting these standards? What class? All classes? I believe I touch on all of these standards during the year but will we be attaching grades.
ReplyDeleteGreat questions! As of now, there is not intention of adding these as "graded" standards. When I added the implementation of these standards to my wish list, I never thought about making them something teachers are required to assess (and no one has broached that subject, either). Teachers have enough formal standards to assess, in my opinion :-) But even though they're not formally "graded" doesn't mean they're not good standards to aspire to! The teachers in this district have worked hard over that past 5 years to really embrace educational technology integration and 21st century learning. I believe looking at these standards can help teachers further step up the learning experiences that are happening in their classrooms and really move students along in being 21st century learners. These standards are meant to inspire!
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