standard 2 evidence

NETS Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

ISTE Definiton: Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS'S. Teachers:

1. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
2. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
3. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.
4. provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

How I apply this standard in my teaching.

In designing and adapting relevant learning experiences with digital tools, I do many activities. We use twitter as a professional development tool. Students create a "professional" twitter that is not used for personal means, (this supports instruction in personal vs. professional use of technology for teachers), and students follow educational professionals and groups. We have collected books to create a professional library from which students will pull books for research and learning. We use Voicethreads as a means of relfecting on the content of the books. We follow many teacher lesson plans sites which are used by students when they are creating lesson plans for their teaching experiences in the classroom, and we share a catalog of resources on Delicious.

I provide a technology-enriched environment to allow students to pursue curiosities, set their own professional goals, manage learning, and assess themselves and others. Students are working with a company called TapTeach to find innovative ways to share information about CAPS programs by using bluetooth on mobile devices when visitors are in our building. Students create portfolios on WIX that contain evidence of learning and feature videos and pictures of their teaching experiences and also include their written philosophies of education, resumes, 30-second elevators speeches, etc. Students keep professional development logs up-to-date which reflect learning activities in which they have taken part, and they take on leadership roles when conducting a summer camp for middle school students, planning, executing, and assessing all activities during the four-day camp.

I also manage assignments and projects to allow customized and personal learning for my students in a variety of forms to accommodate varied learning styles. Students have exhibited research practices and knowledge synthesis by doing various assignments. Students have visited other school districts to sample teaching and learning experiences other than their own. Students have studied gaming as a teaching/learning tool and have created games to take to elementary students for trial, get feedback, and revise. These students' work was actually featured as the cover story for the November 2012 issue of T.H.E. Journal.

Students also use many tools and methods of assessment, both formative and summative. Students may use an online or physical textbook, and they also have many choices for learning such as using quia.com, edmodo.com, speaking opportunities, and creation tools.

Students use oovoo.com or flip cameras to record themselves teaching and then use those videos for both self and peer evaluations. Students use Basecamp, project management site, to organize projects and communicate with business partners, and they receive feedback evaluations from their host mentor teaches. To authenticate learning, I send their resumes to professionals for feedback.

Examples of my work for this standard.

1. Professional Development Log (.pdf)

2. Lesson Plan Development (.pdf)

3. Video Self-Evaluation (.pdf)

4. Video Peer-Evaluation (.pdf)

5. Project Evaluation Other District Visits (.pdf)

6. Teacher Evaluation (.pdf)

7. Business Partner Evaluation (.pdf)

My favorite web resources for this standard.

1. Delicious

2. Voicethread

3. Oovoo