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Standard 1. 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:
articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
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.
Tech Tools for Empowered Learners
Assistive Technologies
Creative Communication Tools (Adobe Spark, Powtoons, Padlet)
Google Drive Apps (ex. Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms)
Google Classroom
Assessment tools (ex: Plickers, Kahoot)
Bubbl.us (graphic organizer site)
Reflection Essay - How PBL Unit Plans relate and demonstrate the ISTE Standard|Empowered Learner?
Empowered Learner
Unit Planning for project-based learning must be grounded in standards that incorporate best practices and prepare students for the real world. ISTE's first standard 'empowered learner' enables educators to explicitly scaffold and assess student's skills. The project-based plan begins with the end in mind by brainstorming authentic projects for students. Empowering students, especially now with learning being shifted to full virtual due to the pandemic, and emerging trends such as artificial intelligence is paramount. Increasingly, online learners are plunged into asynchronous and synchronous modalities and have to be empowered to navigate the changes in these modalities.
In planning, educators lessons must leverage technology that engages students to actively demonstrate competencies in their learning and personal goals. BCIT unit plans needs to cooperate the fundamental concepts of technology operations so that demonstrate the interest, skills and abilities as well as their creativity in a self-directed environment. Empowerment brings students to the center of the learning experience and increase self-efficacy. Students should be given a voice through feedback and decision making to improve practices and demonstrate learning. This increase students engagement with the implementation of a combination of content and activities to present information in multiple forms to cater to the various learning styles to include audial, kinesthetic, tactile, visual and textual.
An example of how PBL Unit Plans demonstrate the ISTE Standard to Empower learners are backward planing instructions with reasonable expectations for students to achieve goals based on grade levels. These standards are also used to evaluate the effectiveness of the subject based on established standards. This can be seen the unit plan for introduction to code which is included in this ePortfolio. The unit was designed for students to create their own games using Code.org gaming lab simulator. The skills learned can be transferred to programming languages as students gain the understanding of pseudocode.
References:
Standard 1: Empowered Learner. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://sbtechpd.weebly.com/standard-1-empowered-learner.html
Ascd. (n.d.). Turn & Talk / John Spencer on the Shift to Student Empowerment. Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar20/vol77/num06/John-Spencer-on-the-Shift-to-Student-Empowerment.aspx
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