Correlation to the ISTE Standards

How does the Mobile Makerspace Program integrate the ISTE Standards for digital age learning?

Today's students need more access to a variety of learning experiences and the opportunity to create. As educators we need to mentor and model students in authentic problems solving, global issue exploration, growth mindset, perseverance, and reflection on their learning experiences . The ISTE Standards for Students and the ISTE Standards for Educators frameworks guide our work as we empower learners and rethink our approach to student driven learning. This website is a meant to be used as a model to mentor students as they become empowered learners, knowledge constructors, innovative designers, and computational thinkers. It is also meant to provide assistance to educators as they continue to be learners, leaders, designers, and facilitators in the maker landscape.

ISTE Standards for Students:

• Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
• Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
• Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
• Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

ISTE Standards for Educators:

• Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning
• Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning
• Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability
• Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.