Being an empowered learner revolves around you setting a goal. Over the course of your project you need to look back at that goal and make sure you are on track to reach that set goal. In the progress of your assignment you need to make sure you are using tools to further reach your goal, as well as classmates and teachers. When your peers and advisors give you feedback you should be able to refine your project to be better. An empowered learner uses a lot of technological tools and in order to reach this standard you need to be able to describe a problem you face with those tools and be able to fix that problem.
A Digital Citizen is a very important standard, it revolves around being careful and considerate online. As a digital citizen it is your job to always be responsible while online, so that you can keep yourself, school, and the device safe. Netiquette is the prime requirement to reach this standard, netiquette is your etiquette online, or how you act when on technology. When probing the internet it is essential that you make sure your site is credible and that it is safe for your digital device. If your source is indeed credible then you need to respectfully use that information without plagiarizing.
Knowledge Constructing is just like it sounds, it is finding information, however it is finding information using the internet. Using the internet is a great way to find information, however there is always false information. As a knowledge constructor you need to filter the good information from the bad and pick a good, reliable website. To reach this standard you need to be able to find your way around the internet such as, utilizing search bars, hyperlinks, and understanding cookies on a website. This is part of how you reach the standard of knowledge constructor but you must demonstrate the knowledge you learned by creating something involving your research.
The standard Innovative Designer is very easy to attach to your project. This standard is very much about making a plan to answer a question that you have. In the interest of meeting the standard innovative designer, it is important to test your plan a couple of times to make sure that it is the best way to complete your research. Once your plan is the most effective way to answer your question, then you need to use digital tools to research your inquiry. Once you have answered your question you need to make something to represent your answer.
When making a project you tend to run into problems, when you solve those problems and understand those problems you are a Computational Thinker. Although you do need to use digital tools to solve your problem and represent your knowledge of the process to solve that roadblock. Another thing that you need to understand to be a Computational Thinker, is computers and how they work or what their patterns are.
Being a Creative Communicator means that when completing your project you are choosing the best tools to get the best result. To meet this standard, look back on a few of these things. Did you choose the best online tool to communicate with others that you are working with? Did you choose the best digital app or site to share your work or ideas? Have you made an original work that you can call your own without risk of copyright? Congrats if you answered yes to all of these because that makes you a Creative Communicator.
The standard of Global Collaborator and the standard of Digital Citizen go hand in hand. This is because to be a Global Collaborator you must respectfully interact with others online, this is also a requirement for being a Digital Citizen. However, being a Global Collaborator is still different in a lot of ways, such as you need to be working in a group. You also must be a genuine contributor to your group. The project that you are working on should have been researched thoroughly and will solve either a global or a local issue.