Standard 5

Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

          As a teacher, you are constantly growing as a learner. It is very important for teachers to continue to engage in learning new things not only about their students, themselves, and new things about teaching in general; they need to continually stay updated on technology for their classrooms. It is vital for teachers to participate in global learning as well as local learning. It helps get a better understanding of their surroundings in order to better teach their students.

          As a teacher, you are head of the classroom, which means you have a very important leadership role. It is a teachers job to infuse technology into students learning and also model leadership for your students. Teachers also need to evaluate and reflect on new technological developments and decide if they are a good asset to their classroom or not.

          It is also very important for teachers to contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and show that to your students. If you want your classroom to run smoothly, you have to continue to grow as a teacher. Teachers are students as well as teachers because everyday something is changing and as a teacher, you must stay on top of it. 

Artifacts: Blog, Website, Web tools

Standard 4

Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

          Standard 4 mentions the importance of copyright laws and intellectual property as well as modeling, advocating, and teaching safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information.. It a crucial part of being a teacher to teach what is right. When using technology in the classroom, it is a vital part of teaching it to make sure we teach copyright laws and teach what is ethical, safe, and legal. Digital information can be very tricky when it comes to copyright laws and what is ethical and not ethical to copy. It is very important that students know how to properly document sources of used data.

          Part d of standard 4 mentions developing and modeling cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of different cultures using digital-age communication. I interpreted this as using things like some sort of social networking to communicate with people across the world. Allow students to set up some sort of secure social network and as the teacher monitors what they are doing, allow them to meet students from different parts of the world. It is very important for the teacher to stay engage with the students while doing this though. It would be a fun way for students to learn about different cultures from across the world.

         

Artifacts: Turnitin assignment, blog

Standard 3

 Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

          Another word for teacher should me model, no, not the runway kind but the kind that is a representation of how something is done. All teachers must model for students how to do a project.  You should not just ask a student to do something without first showing them how it is correctly done. In a digital-age classroom, this is crucial.  Students must know how to use a computer and how to get on the internet and know so many different things before beginning to work in a digital-age classroom. Teachers have to be fluent in technological systems and be able to easily demonstrate how to use them before even beginning to teach the students. It is very important for teachers to also stay updated on the latest bits of technology information.

          Teachers can easily use technology to collaborate with students and parents and allow students to work with other students like by having a classroom website.  Students would love being able to help update the classroom website and parents usually love staying involved in the classroom  and using digital-age technology to do so is a perfect and easy way to accomplish this.  Classroom websites are a great way to share all sorts of information with parents and/or students.  Blogging is another great way to communicate through the digital world. It is an ideal way to model and facilitate how to use a current digital tool to communicate.

Artifacts: Website, blogging

         

Standard 2

Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
          Standard 2 seems to mean that we need to update our way of working with students. Rather than just give them a worksheet and take it up for a grade, we need to be creative with our assignments to them. Teachers need to give them more experiences with digital-age projects. The world is constantly changing and progressing. Technology is all around us and students need to know how to use it.
          Part B of Standard 2 states, develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress. I love this statement. It is so true. We as teachers should do all of this. We need to allow the students to set their own goals, give them a chance to manage their own learning, and let them asses themselves. They need the opportunity learn by doing.
          If we give the student the opportunity to customize and personalize their learning activity, it will allow them to be much more engaged in their work. They will be more interested in it and want to do a great job on it. Every student is different and they all learn differently so we should not hold them all to the exact same standard.
          We also need to give student multiple and varied formative and summative assessments. Do not use just one set way of doing something. Branch out with different forms of assessments and then use the information that has been gathered and utilize it as a teaching tool and a learning tool for yourself and the students.
Artifacts: video assignment, blogging, online quiz, rubrics

Standard 1

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
          Being a teacher means so much more than just teaching. As teachers it is your job to inspire students as they work. Teachers inspire students to do their best work and be creative with it. We encourage them to let their personality shine through their work. Using technology gives them so many more options and opportunities to be creative with their work.
          In order for teachers to facilitate creative learning, we must first model it for the student. We then let the students engage in it. It is very important to give the students as many different experiences in the classroom as possible so they will be better prepared for the real world. The more problems students are faced with or things they may encounter while being supervised will give them the best chance to succeed.
          In order for teachers to properly model for students, they have to know the subject matter they are teaching. Which is why it is so important for teachers to be overly prepared for class, especially in a technology based classroom. They need to be prepared for anything and everything.
          Teachers also need to be prepared to learn with the students. It is very important for teachers to be open to what students have to say because you never know when an opportunity will present itself for a student to teach you something.
          What I have learned over this semester in IT365 helps promote all of these, every activity we did allowed us to incorporate a little of ourselves in each project. The more creative students are allowed to be, the better they will enjoy the work.
Artifacts: Concept Mapping, Blogging, website

My Artifacts

Blog

Concept Map Link

Web Tools

          Rubric

Online Quiz

            Username: Fredala

            Password:IT365FALL

Worksheet

Puzzle

Web Site

Assistive Technology

Turnitin-Gender Bias

Video Assignment

Introduction to My Blogfolio

My Blogfolio consist of a collection of my work created throughout my time spent in IT365. We have worked very hard this semester on learning how to incorporate technology into the classroom. We have learned several very important and helpful ways of doing so.

This Blogfolio consists of several different parts. The first part of this project discusses the 5 NETS standards. The next section of this project consists of a list of all the artifacts that I have created along with links to each one, and there really are some very interesting features so I encourage you to check them out. The next part discusses in detail the 5 NETS standards as well as my thoughts about each one and how my artifacts relate to them. The last section consists of my reflection of my time spent in IT365. This blogfolio was a lot of hard work and I hope you can enjoy it.