With the development of the new ISTE Standards for Students 2016 we are seeing once again an emphasis on helping our students explore, create, and discover throughout the learning process. Most importantly these standards emphasize that students need to “learn how to learn” and become their own agents for change and discovery. Technology tools support these teaching and learning goals, but it is never about the devices. It is always about the learning.
As we expand our integration of technology throughout the curriculum we help students become:
Global Collaborators
Digital Citizens
Knowledge Constructors
Computational Thinkers
Innovative Designers
Creative Communicators
Global Collaborators
Digital Citizens
Knowledge Constructors
Computational Thinkers
Innovative Designers
Creative Communicators
Post worth reading:
The learning myth: Why I'll never tell my son he's smart by Sal Khan
Past recommendations:
1. Eight Digital Skills We Must Teach Our Children - from the World Economic Forum
2. How can we educate the next generation to succeed in the future job market, at the primary school level and in higher education? Edward Hess, Professor, UVA Darden School of Business explains: How to Succeed in the 'Smart Machine' Revolution.
3. Spoiled Rotten from Boston Magazine
4. Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?
5. Parents, Please Be Kind to Teachers
6. 63 Things Every Student Should Know in a Digital World
7. Parent's Perspective: A Mom's Open Letter to Technology
8. How do we prepare students for 21st century careers? Tony Wagner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education recommends these "Seven Survival Skills".
9. "The Year Reality Knocked."
The learning myth: Why I'll never tell my son he's smart by Sal Khan
Past recommendations:
1. Eight Digital Skills We Must Teach Our Children - from the World Economic Forum
2. How can we educate the next generation to succeed in the future job market, at the primary school level and in higher education? Edward Hess, Professor, UVA Darden School of Business explains: How to Succeed in the 'Smart Machine' Revolution.
3. Spoiled Rotten from Boston Magazine
4. Are We Raising a Generation of Helpless Kids?
5. Parents, Please Be Kind to Teachers
6. 63 Things Every Student Should Know in a Digital World
7. Parent's Perspective: A Mom's Open Letter to Technology
8. How do we prepare students for 21st century careers? Tony Wagner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education recommends these "Seven Survival Skills".
9. "The Year Reality Knocked."