Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Teachers 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.
Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.
Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.
Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
Reflection
It is important to think about what you would like for your students to gain from their learning experience. By promoting and modeling different ways to collaborate and perform a task students become more successful.
I selected to use the Destiny Quest unit that I created for IT 636 because it exemplifies how well rounded an online units should be. This unit was created to promote the use of an online card catalog for an elementary school library. The activities within the unit engage students via videos, hands on experience, and online game play. I feel this artifact shows how even in a non-traditional classroom setting that online tools can be utilized to help students learn and grow.
I selected my Blogfolio for IT 645 to showcase the many different methods that I have collaborated with fellow classmates and reflected on my course work. For this Blogfolio we were required to complete the standards and explain how all of our assignments met the NETS-T Standards. I enjoyed the blogging experience more than I thought I would.
I selected my Instagram for the Classroom site to demonstrate how I have encouraged student participation through social media. I believe that this was one of the more creative assignments that I completed. I found a new way to use Instagram in which I had never thought of before.
Artifacts
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Future Goals
In the future I hope to inspire my coworkers to use different formats when teaching their students. I want to share my experiences with them so they too can see how easy it is to incorporate these tools in learning and how they can better engage their students.