Chapter 1 Prompt: What standards do you feel are most relevant to your teaching and to your content area and that will challenge you the most? What strategies will you employ to become familiar with these standards so that you can more easily address them in your classroom? When discussing ‘standards’ in education, there are many different ones that educators use to guide their instruction. There are national standards; there are state-level standards; there are content-area standards. Here, in ITD 645, we are concerned with technology standards used to guide educators in integrating technology into their classroom. While there are no single ‘set’ to follow, the most common have been set by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). The ISTE has defined 7 different student roles of students in the 21st century: empowered learner, digital citizen, knowledge constructor, innovative designer, computational thinker, creative communicator, and global collaborator. Educators are no just charged with using technology in the classroom but to foster an environment where students become technologically literate in the 21st century. In my science classroom, technology is at the heart of many scientific advances, such as virtual dissection labs. One of the most novel and relevant ISTE student standard is being a global collaborator. According to the ISTE, “students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning” (2020). I think that it is so exciting that educators can connect with scientists all around the world and even the International Space Center to bring experts to the classroom at the drop-of-the-hat so to speak via video conferencing. Conversely, the most challenging ISTE student standard is teaching students to be a digital citizen and understand the permanence of their footprint in the digital world. Even before looking up the ISTE technology standards for students, I already adhered to and believed in many of their goal ideas. In this day-and-age, being technologically savvy is more than just learning how to type and use word processors. Moving forward, I plan to …
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