I may have a problem. My current board game collection runs slightly over 200 games – and excluding all the expansion, upgrades, and other fiddly bits I’ve acquired along the way. It’s getting to the point where storage is becoming an issue. I have a game group I game with once a week and I’ve … Continue reading “Gaming the System: ISTE Standard 6 and Fun and Games”
This week I’m looking at the ISTE Global Collaboration standard for students. My question this week was, how can students find experts to interact with online in order to expand their perspectives and collaborate with others? Our world is changing. … Continue reading →
Photo Credit:CNA Finance ISTE Standard 4: Professional Development and Program Evaluation Performance Indicator B Design, develop, and implement technology rich professional learning programs that model principles of adult learning and promote digital age best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. For the final blog post of this quarter, our cohort explores the triggering eventRead More
This week we looked at ISTE standard 6, students as Creative Communicators. Looking at Standards 6a and 6c, this led me to question, how can I create opportunities for my students to strive to meet state standards while incorporating a variety of digital tools as methods of differentiation? Evidence of Learning Beyond Paper and … Continue reading “Module 5 – Encouraging Creative Communicators”
Module 5 is about investigating ISTE Student Standard’s 6 and/or 7: ISTE Student Standard 6: Creative Communicator – “students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.” ISTE Student Standard 7: Global Collaborator – “students use digital tools to broaden … Continue reading “Doing math online (Module 5, Creative communicator, Global collaborator)”
Dot-to-dot puzzles. My kid loves them. Always has. Now in sixth grade, his favorites still start off 1-2-3, but now they’re cranked up to 11. Extreme puzzles like this one: This giraffe puzzle (sorry to spoil the surprise… it’s a giraffe) has over 1300 dots to connect, but the concept is still the same […]
As I prepared for my blog post this week, the word ‘essential’ kept running through my mind. What does e-s-s-e-n-t-i-a-l mean? How is it used in our world today? How does its real world use relate to school professional development? I think we would all agree about what is considered an essential when we travel […]
In my final week of reflection on ISTE Students Standards for my graduate work in Digital Education Leadership at Seattle Pacific University, I am focused on ISTE 7: Global Collaborator; specifically 7b students will us collaborative technologies to work with other to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints. Recently, I have been working on … Continue reading ISTE – Global Collaborator – Assessing Podcasts and their Creativity
I grew up in the golden age of educational gaming. I don’t know that any games have matched the cultural and educational impact of the 8-bit majesty of The Oregon Trail (play the 1990 version here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990) or the full-color wonder of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (play the 1985 version here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_1985) […]
ISTE Coaching Standard 4 provides three benchmarks for technology coaches to conduct needs assessments, develop technology-related professional learning programs and evaluate the impact on instructional practice and student learning. My focus is on per…
