ISTE Standards

This section was a little difficult to understand , but I have a better understanding now. I used iste.org/standards


ISTE Standards: International Society for Technology in Education


Teachers: driven teachers strive to model and implement ISTE Standards for students while they assess, design, and implement experiences to engage students and aid in successful learning; provide positive models for each student, colleague, and community; and enrich professional practice.  All teachers should meet each of the standards listed below.

Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity:  Teachers utilize their knowledge of technology, teaching and learning, and subject matter to facilitate experiences that improve student learning, innovation, and creativity in both visual and face-to-face environments.
-Support, promote, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
-Encourage students to explore real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
-Support student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, creative processes, and thinking.
-Model collaborative knowledge construction by being involved in learning with colleagues, students, and others in virtual and face-to-face environments.

Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments:


-Create or adapt relevant learning experiences that include digital tools and resources to encourage student creativity and learning.
-Develop technology-filled learning environments that allow all students to pursue their individual goals and become involved in setting their own educational goals, assessing their own progress, and managing their own learning.
-Provide students with many formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use resulting data to inform teaching and learning.
-Customize and personalize learning activities to aid in students' diverse learning styles, abilities, sand and working strategies using digital tools and resources.


Model digital age work and learning:


Teachers have knowledge, work processes, and skills representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital world.
-Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of knowledge to new technologies and systems.
-Collaborate with students, peers, and parents using many digital age media and formats.
-Facilitate and model effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, use, and evaluate information resources to support research and learning.


Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility:


Teachers exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices because they understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture.
-Model, advocate, and teach legal, safe, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, the appropriate documentation of resources, and intellectual property.
-Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.
-Model and encourage digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.
-Create and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools.


Engage in professional growth and leadership:


Teachers always improve their professional practice, exhibit leadership, and model lifelong learning in their school and community.
-Participate in local and global learning communities to learn more about creative applications of technology to improve student learning.
-Show 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.
-Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice to make use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.
-Contribute to the vitality, effectiveness, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community.

Concept Mapping

The first time we worked on our concept maps I was having a difficult time. I did not quite understand, but the more we discussed the topic I think I have a better grasp on everything. I actually changed my topic that I began working on, so I have more work ahead of me. I like the software we use to create the concept maps. Most of my plans are already done. I just have to incorporate everything to make it tie in with each other. My topic is the five senses and I am so excited because there is a lot of information to be used. I will post a picture of my concept map whenever I finish.


***Note:  Since you actually need the program to see the actual concept map, all I could do was post a picture:

Introduction

I am frequently asked what it feels like to be an only child.  My answer is always the same and I continuously smile when I respond.  Being an only child is the most incredible thing I have been able to experience.  It has allowed me to have a strong relationship with my mother.  Considering I have been raised by a single parent, I have been blessed to have been provided for as if I had both parents.  If I had other siblings I do not think I would have the same opportunity to be as close as I am to my mother.  I am twenty years old and am a native of Long Beach, MS.  I absolutely love living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast!  I enjoy eating seafood to say the least.  I have four Chihuahuas named Lilo, Stitch, Tiki, and Maui and they are the only children I will be having for an extensive amount of time.  I thoroughly enjoy running alongside the beach and am currently training for a half marathon.  I am also going to be competing for the title of Miss University of Southern Mississippi to compete for Miss Mississippi.  I have a passion for volunteering and am always finding things I can do to help others.  I eventually would like to become an English professor and be able to inspire others in some sort of way.  I hope to learn many things from this class and am excited to see how my technological skills improve.

- Bethany Noelle