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*09/01 ISTE Standards & Tool Commercial Project


1. ISTE Standards

There are all together 7 components in the ISTE Standards for students: empowered learner, digital citizen, knowledge constructor, computational thinker, creative communicator, innovative designer, and global collaborator. Let's watch an video overview of the ISTE Standards to get a whole picture of it. Group discussion: Work in groups of 3 or 4 to discuss the following questions and post your responses to the Padlet for your group (15 mins). When you finish your group discussion, you may check out another groups' posts and leave comments there.

  • You also read How classroom technology is holding students back. What were some of your big takeaways from the reading? With what did you agree? Disagree?

  • How do the ISTE Standards connect with this article? In the classroom vignettes that the author described, did you see examples of the standards?

  • Why should we care about ISTE standards?

  • What can we do to promote recognition to the technology-integration in K-12 classrooms? How can we equip pre-service teachers with the mindset?


2. Tool Commercial project

Sign up for the Tool Commercial project if you haven't done so. You have already started to explore how to use your selected tool. As a class, we will decide together what we want to know about the tools. We'll do this with a poll: PollEv.com/xiguiyang972. (You can text also XIGUIYANG972 to 37607 to join the poll on your phone.)


1) What should be covered?

Based on the word cloud generated in class, it looks like your tool commercial project should cover the following aspects of your tool:

  • Cost: Is it free or is there a free trial? Otherwise, how much?

  • Difficulty level: Is it user-friendly? Easy to use?

  • Accessibility: how can you access it? Does it work on a MacBook, PC, Android, or iOS device?

  • Use: What are the main features? Demonstrate how to use it.

  • Application: How to apply it to facilitate effective teaching and learning? Can you give an example?

  • Other: Any other aspects that you think are important to know

2) What could the final product look like?

You can choose your own creative form of your final product for this project. And whatever form it is, it will be added to your portfolio site on a page named "Tool Commercial Project" (Don't forget to publish the changes). Possible forms are:

  • Blog style - written description of the tool with texts, images and other elements.

  • Poster - design a poster for your tool on paper or digitally.

  • Video - make a cool video to introduce your tool. Talk with me if you need help with what video creation tools are good to use for your purpose.

  • Other - talk with me if you have other creative ideas.

3) How to present it?

You'll have 3-4 minutes to present your project next Tuesday when we meet as a whole class. No need to prepare slides. You just need to demonstrate your project (whatever form it is) and demonstrate how to use the tool. Think about how you can to "sell" your tool to your audience.

4) Point value

The Tool Commercial project takes up 5% of your final grade (3' for project + 2' for presentation). If you cannot attend class Next Tuesday either in person or via Zoom, you may recorded a video presentation and send it to me before class.

5) Due date

You need to post your tool commercial project to your portfolio website by Friday, 09/04. (Don't forget to publish the changes). Get ready for presentation when we meet again in class next Tuesday.


HOMEWORK

(DUE Friday, 09/04) 1. Compete your Tool Commercial Project. See instructions above.

(Due next Tuesday, 09/08, before class) 2. Reread the following articles and then answer these questions:

  • Chapter One from Howland, J., & Jonassen, D. (2012). Meaningful learning with technology (4th ed.). Boston: Pearson. 

  • Rose, D. H., & Gravel, J. W. (2010). Universal design for learning. In P. Peterson, E. Baker & B. McGraw (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (pp. 48-56). Oxford: Elsevier. (*** You will have to create a free account to read the chapter – but the web version has some nice accessibility features that might be useful to you, for example, there is an option to have any text that you highlight read to you. Only Chapter 4 is required (Pages 48-57). The videos included are not required to view but might help to explain UDL a bit better.)

  • Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society (Publication). (2011). Washington, DC: NEA.

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