Patterson - EDU570 Resources by Rachel Patterson

See The ISTE Standards - Empowered Learner

regray998 — 2025-08-30 17:18:12 UTC

This website provides an in depth look at the qualities that students demonstrate as an Empowered Learner, and breaks apart 5 key areas of development within the standard: Student Motivation, Social Emotional Engagement, Self-Direction, Constructive Use of Feedback, and Digital Fluency. For each key area, a description of skills and traits a student should demonstrate by answering the question "what does the student look like?". As a teacher, using these guiding qualities would help me understand where students are at in the development of these key areas and ideas of what can be done to support students in continuing to develop.

Possible Tools for Empowered Learners

regray998 — 2025-08-30 17:22:33 UTC

This website provides specific tools that teachers can implement in the classroom to support students in meeting this ISTE Standard. The resources range from simple to more complex, giving teachers a starting point no matter their current comfort level with integrating technology. As a teacher, I can use this list as a starting point of resources to integrate into my lessons to build empowered learners, adding to the resources as I find my own resources that work well for my students.

UNC - Digital Citizen

regray998 — 2025-08-30 18:00:57 UTC

This website provides a breakdown of each substandard in ISTE Standard 1.2 Digital Citizen, including 2a. Digital Identity, 2b. Safe and Ethical Behavior, 2c. Intellectual Property Rights, and 2d. Personal Data Privacy and Security. For each substandard, instructional activities are included with a recommended age range for each resource. As a teacher, I can use this resource to select activities appropriate for my students while ensuring I am using vetted resources to effectively help my students become responsible digital citizens.

9 Resources for Teaching Digital Citizenship

regray998 — 2025-08-30 18:11:30 UTC

In this blog post from the ISTE website, 9 resources for teaching digital citizenship are shared. A variety of resources and strategies for embedding digital citizenship lessons into instruction are linked, providing teachers with easy to implement resources. As a teacher, I can use this resource to help remind myself of ways to teach digital citizenship within existing lessons, as well as remind myself of the importance of teaching and modeling how to be a responsible digital citizen.

ISTE Standards in Action

regray998 — 2025-08-30 18:27:32 UTC

The linked playlist of ISTE Standards in Action show how teachers are implementing strategies to support students in meeting the third ISTE standard Knowledge Constructor. There are three sub-standards: Effective Research Strategies, Evaluate Information, and Curate Information. The videos provide examples of how activities planned in the classroom also meet this ISTE standard and reiterate the importance of students being able to effectively use technology resources to construct knowledge through research. As a teacher, these videos serve as examples for me to show how relevant this standard is and how important it is to teach my students to effectively research and evaluate resources.

UNC - Knowledge Constructor

regray998 — 2025-08-30 18:32:15 UTC

This website breaks down the sub-standards of ISTE Standard 1.3 Knowledge Constructor and provides engaging activities to use with students to teach principles of this standard. There are multiple activities for each substandard, and a recommendation for grade levels to use each activity with is provided. As a teacher, this provides me with premade activities that I can adapt and implement with my students to ensure I am teaching to this standard.

ISTE - Innovative Designer Standard and Resources

regray998 — 2025-08-30 18:41:43 UTC

This website provides an in-depth analysis of ISTE Standard 1.4 Innovative Designer and the four sub-standards. For each substandard, a working definition is provided to help educators understand what a student looks like and can demonstrate when meeting the standard. Additionally, a tool is provided for each substandard for teachers to explore and implement to support students in becoming innovative designers. As a teacher, this provides me a good idea of what is required of the standard, what students should be able to do, and new resources to try with my students to demonstrate their understanding.

ISTE Standards in Action - Innovative Designer

regray998 — 2025-08-30 18:56:24 UTC

The linked playlist shows how teachers use technology to support students becoming innovative designers, meeting sub-standards 4a. Design Process, 4b. Design Constraints, 4c. Prototypes, and 4d. Open-Ended Problems. This allows viewers to see real-life examples of how teachers are using technology to support learning and support students in being innovative in solving problems using technology. As a teacher, I can use these examples to craft ways to support my students in engaging in the design and problem solving process to support their learning.

ISTE Computational Thinking Teacher Resources

regray998 — 2025-08-30 19:51:37 UTC

This Teacher Resources guide by ISTE provides in-depth information regarding ISTE Standard 1.5 Computational Thinker. I found the Vocabulary and Progression Chart on pages 8-9 helpful in understanding each skill and how it should look for students at each age range. The guide also provides examples and resources of technology tools that can be integrated into content-specific standards at various grade levels to support computational thinking. This guide will be impactful to me as a teacher because it provides explicit information, examples, and resources applicable to this standard that can be implemented in the classroom.

ISTE Blog - How to Develop Computational Thinkers

regray998 — 2025-08-30 19:56:17 UTC

This blog provides ideas and strategies for developing computational thinkers in the classroom to support problem-solving. There are four main components of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm design. There are resources linked within each component to support further learning for teachers, as well as a section with resources for teachers to get started in expanding on practices in the classroom to support computational thinkers. As a teacher, this resource allows me to learn more about the key components of developing computational thinkers, and provides new tools to implement to support my students.

UNC - ISTE Standard 6 Lesson Ideas

regray998 — 2025-08-30 21:05:36 UTC

This resource provides ideas and sample lessons for using technology to support students in becoming creative communicators. Technology tools used vary from low tech options to higher level tools, and span across grade levels. As a teacher, this resource is helpful in seeing how technology can be used during instruction, and the language to use with students, even the youngest students, to support their understanding of using technology to support creative communication.

Edutopia - Edtech Tools Can Enhance Creativity

regray998 — 2025-08-30 21:35:32 UTC

This website provides two tools that can be used at the elementary level to support students in communicating what they learned in a creative way. The site recommends Seesaw and Flip as tools to use for students to share their work, with options for students to record themselves and share their thinking and their work. As a teacher, these tools would be great to use for students to not only share their work with me, but also share their learning with their families.

Teaching Ideas for the Global Collaborator ISTE Standard

regray998 — 2025-08-30 21:46:18 UTC

This blog shares a variety of ideas that can be implemented to encourage students to be global collaborators, including tools such as Skype and Zoom, Google Chat, social media, and Google Translate to connect and collaborate with others. It also reiterates the importance of responsible digital citizenship while using these tools. As a teacher, it gives me ideas for how to help my students learn from others who may be close or far away using technology tools to support their communication and collaboration.

ISTE Standards in Action - Global Collaborator

regray998 — 2025-08-30 21:51:46 UTC

The linked playlist shows how technology can be used to connect students to learning with and from others around the world. There are four videos linked that represent each of the sub-standards under ISTE Standard 7. As a teacher, it is helpful to me to see how other educators have created and applied activities that align to this standard and connect students to international issues and learning outside of their own community. This, in my opinion, is the most challenging standard for me to think of how I would implement activities in my classroom, and the videos help me deepen my understanding of how I can engage students in this work.