ISTE Standards

• ISTE Standards for Students (2016) from the International Society for Technology in Education
  • Empowered Learner
  • Digital Citizen
  • Knowledge Constructor
  • Innovative Designer
  • Computational Thinker
  • Creative Communicator
  • Global Collaborator

ISTE Standards for Educators

• Learner
• Leader
• Citizen
• Collaborator
• Designer
• Facilitator
• Analyst

Typology of Free Web-Based Learning Technologies (2020)

• The Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies (2020) provides educators with a list of 226 technologies arranged into 40 types and 15 clusters that can be used via a browser to promote more productive and interactive learning.

21st Century Literacies, Skills and Standards

21st Century Student Outcomes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Framework for 21st Century Skills from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

21st Century Information Literacy Standards for the Digital Learners of New York, from the New York Library Association.

Types of Literacies

Common Core State Standards

The following chart shows how Chapter 3 Tech Tools integrates the technology learning standards from ISTE and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

Traditional vs. Transformative Learning Environments

Using Technology to Inspire Creativity Boosts Student Outcomes, Gallup (2019)

In general, the results show that educational technology is not in itself the main driver of improved student outcomes — its impact comes primarily in helping teachers reorient around more active forms of learning that build students’ creative capacity.

• Teachers who use technology in "transformative ways" and focus on creativity in learning can increase the number of students who are able to engage in problem solving, according to a new report from Gallup. Transformative technology uses include using tablets or computers to create multimedia projects, conduct research and analyze information.
• Technology used in "substitutional ways," such as replacing pens and pencils with tablets or computers to do similar tasks, were 10 percent less likely to see some benefits when it comes to problem solving skills. For teachers who do not focus on creativity or transformative technology, problem solving outcomes drop by 25 percent points to 50 percent.
• Creativity was documented by the number of times students could:
  • Choose what to learn in class.
  • Try different ways of doing things, even if they might not work.
  • Come up with their own ways to solve a problem
  • Discuss topics with no right or wrong answer.
  • Create a project to express what they've learned.
  • Work on a multidisciplinary project.
  • Work on a project with real-world applications.
  • Publish or share projects with people outside the classroom.

Is Technology Good or Bad for Learning? Brookings (May 8, 2019)

• A review of research and a list of technology dos and don'ts
• "When technology is integrated into lessons in ways that are aligned with good in-person teaching pedagogy, learning can be better than without technology" (Saro Mohammed, quoted in Is Technology Good or Bad for Learning?)

What Does Research Really Say About iPads in the Classroom. e-School News, February, 2016

The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking, Psychological Science, 2014

Project Tomorrow (2012), Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey: K-12 Kids and Parents Connect the Dots with Digital Learning

• One finding is that students are likely to develop interests in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields when teachers use instructional practices that feature digital technologies, social media and student-driven learning.

Student-Centered Learning

Student-Centered Learning: Nine Classrooms in Action. Bill Nave. Harvard Education Press, 2015.

What's Your Learning Style? a Multiple Intelligences Assessment from Edutopia.

Grasha-Riechmann Teaching Style Inventory

• Assesses different styles including Expert, Formal Authority, Personal Model, Facilitator, and Delegator

The Six Principles of Genius Hour in the Classroom

Click here for an overview of Learning Theories from InstructionalDesign.org

Why School? How Education Must Change When Learning and Information are Everywhere by Will Richardson, TED Blog, September 14, 2012.

Learn Now, Lecture Later, a report from CDW (August 2012). The report is based on surveys of 1,000 high school and college students, teachers and IT professionals

• 47 percent of teachers are moving beyond lecture only teaching methods.
• 71 percent of students and 77 percent say they are using technology more today than two years ago.
• Technologies on the rise in classrooms include laptops/netbooks, digital content, learning management systems, smartphones, student response systems and blogs.

Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say, New York Times, November 1, 2012

Active Learning Research

Deslauriers, L., et al. (2019). Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821936116

• Study, published Sept. 4 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that, though students felt as if they learned more through traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in classrooms that employed so-called active-learning strategies.