Standard #11: Technology Standards for Teachers
Effective teachers model and apply the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS•S) as they design, implement, and assess learning experiences to engage students and improve learning; enrich professional practice; and provide positive models for students, colleagues, and the community.
The artifact that connects to standard 11 is my technology archive. The technology archive provides teachers with social studies technology resources that can be implemented into their students learning. The artifact helps model and apply the National Educational Technology Standards for Students. The technology resources help design, implement, and assess learning experiences to engage students and improve their learning. Implementing technology resources into lesson plans and units helps provide models for students, colleagues, and the community. The technology archive helps connect to standard 11 because the technology resources that are shown in the technology archive can be used in many different lessons and social studies units. These resources help deepen and expand students understandings about different topics and lessons that they are learning.
This artifact helps expand my pedagogical knowledge and will improve my future practice as an educator. This assignment allowed me to understand how important it is to model and apply the National Educational Technology Standards for the students. This will improve my future practice as an educator because it allows me to gain knowledge on how to use technology within a lesson or unit. I will make sure that my students are familiar with technological resources in order to improve their learning. As a future teacher, having technology resources that can connect to social studies and other topics within the curriculum already ready to use will help provide a positive model for the students and other colleagues. In my future classroom, I will model and apply the National Education Technology Standards for my students, colleagues and the community.
The artifact that connects to standard 11 is my Digital Citizen Lesson that I created and taught to a first grade classroom for Supporting 21st Learning through Technology. The digital citizenship mini lesson provides teachers with a resource to teach their students how to be a good digital citizen. When reviewing this artifact, it clearly models the use and applies the National Technology standards for students. This mini lesson plan creates a learning opportunity that was designed and implements experiences that engages students and improves their learning about how to use technology in a safe and responsible way. Implementing a mini lesson like this artifact provides a positive model about technology use and standards for students, colleagues, and the community. The Digital Citizen Lesson connects to standard 11 because this lesson can be used within classrooms to model and and apply the National Educational Technology Standards for students at an elementary level. It provides resources such as a matching game that is already created for teachers.
This artifact helps expand my pedagogical knowledge and will improve my future practice as an educator. This assignment showed me how important it is to design, implement, and assess learning experiences that connect to the National Educational Technology standards. As a future educator, this will improve my practice because it will allow me to teach my students about the importance of digital citizenship and how to be a good digital citizen. Teaching this among a classroom of first grade students allowed me to expand my pedagogical knowledge and improve my practice as an educator. Teaching this mini lesson allowed me to reflect on components of the lesson I could improve on and did well on. As a future educator, having a lesson already designed and taught will allow me to provide a good model of the National Educational technology standards for my students, colleagues, and the community. In my future classroom, I will make sure to model and apply the National Educational Technology Standards.
The artifact that connects to standard 11 is my Technology Tool Project that I created for Supporting 21st Learning Through Technology. I created my technology tool project based on the technology tool, Canva. Canva is a multimedia platform that has many different design options. It allows both students and teachers to create visual content, presentations, graphics, materials and more. This artifact connects to standard 11 because it demonstrates the model and application of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students. Canva is a tool that will design, implement, and assess learning experiences that engage students and learning. Canva allows students to be creative and take control of their learning. This artifact shows that Canva helps enrich professional practice and provides positive models for students, colleagues, and the community. Canva can be used by both students and teachers in order to create different multimodal learning experiences, posters, and other content.
This artifact helps expand my pedological knowledge and will improve my future practice as an educator. This assignment allowed me to see the different ways that the National Educational Technology Standards can be implemented in the classroom. As a future educator, I will use Canva in my classroom in order to design, implement, and assess learning experiences that engage students in their learning. For example, in the presentation Alyssa and I created a mini lesson for second graders that allowed them to create a fake Instagram post on canva around a book character that they learned about. This would engage and enrich students learning within the classroom. I will use Canva in the classroom to enrich my professional practice and provide positive models for students, colleagues, and the community. Within the classroom, I will use Canva to create multimodal presentations, announcements for families and other teachers, and other posters and projects. This artifact has helped expand my pedagogical knowledge and will be used within my future classroom.
