An empowered learner is a student’s leverage of technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. Students Articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
Digital citizen is recognizing the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical. Students cultivate and manage their digital identity, reputation, and they know they cannot delete their actions in the digital world. Respecting the rights and obligations of using and sharing someones digital property.
Knowledge constructors critically curate a variety of resources from the digital world to collect knowledge, make creative things, and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and other students. Students who plan and employ useful research techniques to locate information, and other resources for their intellectual or creative adventures. Finding the accuracy, perspective, credibility, and relevance of information form the network.
Innovative designers are students that use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by making new, useful or imaginative solutions. Students that know and use a good design process for generating ideas, testing theories, making innovative things, and solve real problems.
Computational thinkers are people who can develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. Make problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, conceptual models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.
Creative communicators, communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media proper for their goals. Create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new works.
Global collaborators are people who use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively with people locally and globally.