Prompt #4

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) provides a set of standards that outline how technology can and should be used effectively in our schools. As a teacher of digital natives, or children who have grown up with technology, it will be my job to try and meet these six standards within my teaching. The standards include creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision- making, digital citizenship, and finally technology operations and concepts. While it is hard to say how I will implement each one of these areas specifically, (because let’s face it, some schools do not have the vast amount of technology that other schools have) I will say that I want to introduce these concepts to my students first and ask their opinion on what each category means to them. Instead of just expecting students to automatically meet these digital standards, I want to pick their brains on what the standards and goals actually mean to them. After finding this information out, I will then create lesson plans and activities appropriate to these standards as well as appropriate to my students and what they are learning.