ISTE Standards - Designer

CT skills can empower students to create computational artifacts that allow for personal expression. Educators recognize that design and creativity can encourage a growth mindset, and work to create meaningful CS learning experiences and environments that inspire students to build their skills and confidence around computing in ways that reflect their interests and experiences.

4.a Design Activities with Data in Mind

Design CT activities where data can be obtained, analyzed and represented to support problem-solving and learning in other content areas.

4.b Design Authentic Learning Activities

Design authentic learning activities that ask students to leverage a design process to solve problems with awareness of technical and human constraints, and defend their design choices.

4.c Teach Human-Centered Design

Guide students on the importance of diverse perspectives and human-centered design in developing computational artifacts with broad accessibility and usability.

4.d Promote Varied Viewpoints & Agency

Create CS and CT learning environments that value and encourage varied viewpoints, student agency, creativity, engagement, joy and fun.

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Link to Hero Story 🖥️⬇️- https://www.childbook.ai/book/clo979euk0001md08lysi3r01

💎Standard 4.C Tech Human-centered Design

Guide students on the importance of diverse perspectives and human-centered design in developing computational artifacts with broad accessibility and usability.

For this Star Hero story activity, students will be using digital resources to access and participate in a hero story-based activity. Students will learn about soil types in a variety of ways to facilitate computational thinking. This activity seeks to "guide students on the importance of diverse perspectives and human-centered design in developing computational artifacts with broad accessibility and usability. " (ISTE CT.4c)

Use of Collaborative Tools

The implementation of AI and other digital software is how we expand learning for students. Incorporating 21st-century skills within our core subjects is a fun way of engaging students virtually while still relating and building real-world skills. Child book AI is a cool resource that I will be using in the future.

💎Standard 4.D Promote Varied Viewpoints & Agency

Create CS and CT learning environments that value and encourage varied viewpoints, student agency, creativity, engagement, joy, and fun.

This activity required students to learn about soil types and indirectly invited them to think about how soil types affect plant growth. Not only was this activity authentic and sensory-friendly, but it also allowed students to apply what they have learned to the real world. Metro has planted a garden, and the knowledge they have learned during this activity could continue to be recalled through other garden activities.

💎Standard 4.B Design Authentic Learning Activities Design authentic learning activities that ask students to leverage a design process to solve problems with awareness of technical and human constraints, and defend their design choices.

This activity had value beyond the classroom. I grew up surrounded by gardens, which might be the same for some students. Regardless of that, every student gets to participate and observe the garden that was built at Metro. This activity gives them information about soil that is used both inside and outside the classroom. Because the activity was mainly centered on students observing the physical characteristics through looking and feeling the soil types, it was accessible to everyone. I love activities that add sensory stimuli.