Collaborative YouTube Playlist
5. Designer
Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.
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.
6. Facilitator
Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students.
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 computational thinking to innovate and solve problems
d. Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.
Description
During the creation of this artifact, I found that YouTube is a much more valuable resource than I had once perceived. The ability to collaborate, share and create makes YouTube invaluable within a classroom. In today's society, students grow up in a digital world, and removing this connectivity to teach lessons seems like moving backwards. With the use of YouTube, we can continue to move forward with technology and teaching, and give our students an experience that engages them, pushes them, and enlightens them in ways that we may not have been able to do in generations past. The accessibility of knowledge for our students is something we should use to our advantage, so that each student can find their way without the hardships of the past.
I also found that, not only is YouTube a fantastic resource, but it is easily integrated into a classroom setting. Instead of watching an instructor search for video after video, a playlist can be created to easily jump from one topic to the other. In addition to this, departments can create collaborative lists to ensure all classes are on the same track.
