Learners and Technology

Leader

Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning. Educators:

a. Shape, advance and accelerate a shared vision for empowered learning with technology by engaging with education stakeholders. 

b. Advocate for equitable access to educational technology, digital content and learning opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students. 

c. Model for colleagues the identification, experimentation, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. 

Collaborator

Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. Educators: 

a. Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology. 

b. Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues. 

c. Use collaborative tools to expand students’ authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally. 

d. Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.

Creative Communicator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. Students: 

a. choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication. 

b. create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations. 

c. communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations. 

d. publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences

Computational Thinker

Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. Students: 

a. formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions. 

b. collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making. 

c. break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving. 

d. understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

Designer

Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. Educators: 

a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs. 

b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. 

c. Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.

Knowledge Constructor

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: 

a. plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

 b. evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources. 

c. curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions. 

d. build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

Facilitator

Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students. Educators:

 a. Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings. 

b. Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field. 

c. Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and/or computational thinking to innovate and solve problems. 

d. Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.

Innovative Designer

Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions. Students: 

a. know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems. 

b. select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks. 

c. develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process. 

d. exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.

Designer

Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability. Educators: 

a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs. 

b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. 

c. Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.

Empowered Learner 

Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. Students: 

a. articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes. 

b. build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process. 

c. use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways. 

d. understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.