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Students must take an active role in achieving their learning goals. They have the option to set their own learning goals and develop the strategies they will use to demonstrate competency.   They will also be able to choose what technology they will use to improve and demonstrate learning. When students are empowered learners they take an active role in the learning process. This allows for more meaningful learning to take place as students are engaged in the process and not just passively processing information.
Source: ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students.
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How can I foster the skill of empowered learning in my students?

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How can I foster the skill of empowered learning in my students?

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A big component of being an empowered learner involves choice. Teachers can facilitate choice by allowing students to choose what book they want to do for a book club or independent book study. Teachers could also set up a task rotation where students choose what tasks they wish to complete and in what order. Students should also be given the chance to demonstrate competency with technology. Teachers can allow students this opportunity by having them create an online journal using a program they have learned about.

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With technology becoming more present in classrooms, students must learn how appropriately interact online and use technology. Students should be aware of the permanence of their actions online. Everything on the internet is there forever. Students should also know how to engage in positive, safe, ethical, and legal interactions online. Students should also be aware of the rights and obligations of sharing intellectual property.
Source: ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students.
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How can I help my students become good digital citizens? 

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How can I help my students become good digital citizens? 

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It is the teacher's job to make sure students understand what it means to be a digital citizen. Teachers can review their district and school digital policies, and present them in a comprehensive way to students. This could involve a breakdown of policies into age-appropriate language and/or allowing small groups to rewrite the policies in their own words. There is also an abundance of online curricula available to guide students through digital citizenship skills. An example of this is Common Sense Media which provides a free training for teachers and also pdf versions of lessons for students. Also make sure students know that it is okay to approach an adult when they think they may have misused technology or found something inappropriate. Open communication allows for students to learn from small mistakes.

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Students must collaborate with a teacher to construct inventive learning experiences for themselves and others around them through the use of technology.  A knowledge constructor is expected to plan and perform research strategies with digital tools to help construct  knowledge and explore real world issues with meaningful connections. Through their research they should be able to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of data resources, collect information with a variety of digital methods, and thereby build their knowledge to create ideas and come up with solutions to real world problems.

Source: ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students.
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How can I incorporate knowledge construction into my classroom?

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How can I incorporate knowledge construction into my classroom?

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In order for a student to meet the adequate knowledge constructor standard, teachers must be very hands-on. We are expected to not only help them figure out how to properly employ various digital tools into their research methods, but we also must encourage them to use their own creativity to come up with with the types of technology they would like to use. With our help, they will likely be able to confirm on their own whether or not a website is reliable, relevant and accurate. This will open up a new world of independence and meaningful learning for your students that they can use not just for educational purposes, but in every day life.

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Innovative designers grow and develop sets of skills that will promote powerful levels of creativity. Brainstorming, researching, presenting, and reflecting. Digital journals, blogs, or making videos. They should have a choice of how to learn and what to learn. Educators will have to introduce design  processes which the students will have to learn to use to solve problems with new, unique ideas. The students will have to develop and test their design process to answer the question.

Source: ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students.
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How can I encourage my students to become adequate innovative designers?

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How can I encourage my students to become adequate innovative designers?

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Since being an innovative designer requires answering complex, open-ended questions, educators have to ensure students that they are capable of doing so. We must encourage them to collaborate with each other, think outside of the box, ask questions, and really reflect on what they are researching. Praise them for making meaningful connections with the topic and let their creativity flow!

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What Makes An Innovative Designer? Unpacking ISTE Student Standard4 - Educated By Design - Episode 4

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A creative communicator has knowledge and access to different sites and platforms as well as having the strength of choosing which one would best fit the task at hand. A creative communicator is aware of his/her audience and adapts to which platform would be most efficient. Creative communicators also are able to communicate their ideas on these platforms in a organized, clear, sufficient way.
Source: ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students

Image source: https://www.itpartners.co.nz/your-collaborative-tool-for-communication-microsoft-teams/

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Students take an active role in problem solving and breaking down questions in a way any form of technology could, such as a computer. The student demonstrates unique methods and strategies to answer and understand give questions. Computational thinkers explore their abilities and have a number sense that demonstrates skills that replica a computer like system. A different way of thinking, recording data, calculating numbers, collaborating and analyzing.

Source: ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students

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Fostering Computational Thinker Skills. 

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Fostering Computational Thinker Skills. 

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This generation is filled with technology and digital citizens however, as teachers it is important to foster the skills of our students. Participating in brain games such as crossword puzzles, sudoko, and other pattern recognition games/activities. Incorporating algorithms within the classroom foster computational thinking. Thinking about sequence in a story you read and then talking about it as a class is a way to develop computational thinking skills. Another way within the classroom to grow these skills is give students facts or questions they need to answer from a longer movie. This teaches them to single out what is important and decipher what they really need, abstraction. Finally, allowing students to work creatively in groups and bounce ideas off each other to foster these skills.

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In order to foster skills and become a creative communicator you need to familiarize yourself with sites and platforms. One way to do this is to utilize youtube and google crash courses on different creative sites; word, padlet, Flipgrid, google docs, and etc. These videos and broaden your knowledge on these creative outlets and  provide you with tips to improve how you communicate through them. Another thing to facilitate these skills is to utilize visuals including charts and diagrams within platforms to help communicate your ideas and connect with your audience. Finally, taking time to yourself to think and collect your own individual thoughts and ideas. Doing something as simple as this allows you to creative individual ideas that are unique and bring something new to your audience.

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Global collaboration is the use of technology to help join students and instructors to communicate with one another across the globe. The opportunity for students and educators to stay in communication with individuals outside of their own culture is a great tool. It is very important for students to be exposed to these opportunities and have a deeper global awareness and understanding of other cultures. There is no better way to learn about another culture than to interact with someone who lives in it.
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How to Incorporate Global Collaboration in the Classroom

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How to Incorporate Global Collaboration in the Classroom

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One way an educator can incorporate global collaboration in the classroom is providing their students with pictures and videos of different cultures. This would be a great way to help your students see what a culture outside of their own looks like.
The second way to incorporate global collaboration as an educator is creating a lesson plan for your students that gives them insight on the culture you are studying. This helps students not feel lost when communicating with other students from those parts of the world. My last thought of how an educator could incorporate global collaboration is by providing the needed resources to connect with other students in different cultures. First, we had students see what other cultures looked like by showing videos and pictures. Then, we taught them about the culture throughout the lesson, and now we have the students start their personal global connection. With technology growing in the classroom, there are many different ways a student can collaborate with another. One interactive example could be Pen Pals, where students write emails back and forth to one another. The teacher just has to provide the the computer, students email, questions to ask one another, etc.
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