Tiana Visser's List: NETS-T standards

This website provides a place for teachers to expand on their knowledge of classroom activities and also a place for teachers to convey their own experiences in the classroom in order to help other teachers. On this website, teachers can upload and download lesson plans. They can find out and participate in knowledge expanding classes and workshops. There is even a place to learn about and download forms for school grants.

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5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:


c. evaluate and reflect on current research and professional practice on a regular basis to make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and resources in support of student learning.

This article is about an invention fair that takes place each year in San Francisco. The fair is designed to allow students from different schools to meet with inventors and learn about their projects. At the "Maker Faire Education Day," the name given to the event, 500 students and teachers gathered on a single day to learn from inventors and participate in hands-on projects. In one project, students create electromechanical insects that respond to movement, wind, and vibrations by blinking their eyes. Teachers can duplicate the project, which uses simple materials, in the classroom to teach basic lessons in conductivity to elementary school and middle school students. This article speaks of other projects that the students participated in and ones that can be duplicated in the classroom.\n\n\nThe NETS-T standard that this article exemplifies is:\n1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity\n\n\nTeachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:\n\n\na. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

This website is for teachers. It gives teachers the tools they need to model and teach the safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology. This website goes step by step through the different digital tools, teaching teachers the rules for each type of technology. There are also websites that teachers can give their students that will help them learn the digital rules. There are also websites for teachers who want additional information or clarification on any of the rules.

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4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers:
a. advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.

This website is designed to facilitate collaboration between students and teachers around the world. There are places for peer reviews. There are places to find out about different collaborations and local groups in your community. There is also a place on the site to download photos, video, and ideas from your school and your students. This website also provides links and information for other digital learning environments.

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3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:

b. collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation

This article is designed to teach teachers how to develop podcasts in their classroom. There are step by step instructions on how to start a classroom podcast. The reasons for developing a classroom podcast are also given. Teachers can learn a lot from this website and can develop a podcast that they can run or that they can have their students run. Podcasts are the new digital tool that students need to learn about and understand.

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2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity