I believe I met this standard of being an Empowered Learner because I developed strategies by leveraging the technologies my students would use for certain collaboration techniques, and I reflected on each of the collaboration processes I planned to implement. I built collaboration networks and customized learning environments in regard to asynchronous and synchronous learning, which I needed to heavily consider the differences between each, as well as cross-over collaboration in regard to students who need to peer review assignments. I demonstrated my learning by breaking down the different ways students can collaborate and choosing which methods best work for them, and I was able to pick and choose which technologies would work best and which ones would not, depending on the assignment and method of collaboration needed.

I would use the collaboration assignment sheet to help me figure out how I want my students to collaborate with one another and how I would grade them fairly. Maybe I would break my students up into groups and use this collaboration assignment to help me grade them fairly, or maybe I would do this for individual students.