Overall Opinion…

I think the standards of the ISTE are a good structure or outline for using technology in the classroom. They briefly explain how students can thrive in an ever changing technological world. Students are able to understand the affects of their actions online when it comes to social interactions, respect for the rights of using and sharing intellectual property, and managing their personal data for something like maintaining digital privacy and security. Not only that, students can learn how to think creatively, abstractly, and can connect with many different people throughout the globe.

Mini Lessons

Standard 3: Knowledge Constructor

According to the knowledge constructor standards:

1. “Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits”
2. “Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.”
3. “Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.”
4. “Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.”

https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students

• For students employing effective research strategies to locate information, as a lesson a teacher can provide a slideshow on how to find reliable and trustworthy information from a variety of sources. The teacher could also provide a graphic organizer for students to use if ever assigned a project. This graphic organizer could contain reminders on how to find reliable information and there would also be different boxes for students to use multiple resources such as websites, magazine articles, or passages from books to help organize their thoughts about the main topic of the project.
• For students evaluating the accuracy, credibility, and relevance of the information they are looking at, a teacher could do a lesson involving current events. In my high school classes we did a lot of those. We had to read a few articles every so often and tell what the article was on, who it was written by, and where the information was published. But with that lesson, I learned about things that were happening around me, I learned about the credibility of the sources I was getting my information from, and how to use the information I was given to create my own thoughts and opinions.
• For students being able to curate information from digital sources, a teacher could use something like a webquest for a lesson. The teacher could give out a list of websites with a few questions to be answered by students. The students would then search through the websites for the answers. Similarly, a teacher could also use a Thinglink like the one we recently created for this class. The information could be given to students, they would have to interact with the site to gain a better understanding, and then answer questions to solidify their understanding.