Standard 4

• Standard 4: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

1. 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.

I think the only way we learned about this was in the beginning of the semester, and we had to research this to learn about it. As we are older students, we have been through much of these issues before and already know about the rules of safe and ethical use of digital information. For my future classroom, I will have to have a couple classes on this in order to make sure my students know how to model safe, legal, ethical, respect of copyrights, intellectual properties and documentation of sources. Since younger students have not gone through life as older students have it is important to teach this and practice it daily. 

1. address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.

To address the diverse needs of all learners I had to create a digital format for my students to follow along with if they needed remediation or enrichment. By having my students create and imagine their own work, it allowed my students to create their own learning environment. Before I began my lessons, I had the digital tools and resources set up that allowed my students access to these sources. I made sure the steps in getting to these sites and programs were clear and precise for every student to follow along with and understand easily. 

1. promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.

To promote digital etiquette and social interactions related to technology, my students were not allowed to go on other sites that were not monitored by myself. I think that to begin teaching this you have to set rules for the students to follow, and if the students follow these rules and guidelines, you can begin to ease off some of the restrictions. Because my students were posting on a blog, they were creating a social interaction online between themselves and their classmates. 

1. develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools.

I definitely want to in the future create a class that collaborates with other cultures using digital-age communication. I learned through this class how to set this up and find resources to help create a cultural class set up that integrates global awareness. This should be required in all classes to have students communicate with other students around the world, by doing this we are separating the boundaries that hold diverse countries apart. 

Standard 3

• Standard 3: Model Digital-Age Work and Learning 

1. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations.

This semester I learned and grew in learning about new technologies and in technological situations. I started this semester not knowing much about computers, and most definitely not about technologies found in modern classrooms. Being in this class really allowed me to explore the technologies out there and available to me in the teaching profession. This class let me be able to explore and discover how to use smart boards  promethium boards, dot cams, blogs, macs, pixie, and so much more to do with the world wide web. 

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

I wish I could have done more communicating and collaborating with other community members using digital tools and resources this semester. I learned how to and that there are resources out there for your classroom to collaborate with students all over the world. I think that in doing this, you are allowing your students to become cultured and understanding young people. In this class we had to collaborate with students and peers in our class which is also good because it creates an environment that allows for comfort. To establish this in a classroom supports success and innovation because it creates respect and responsibility for everyone involved. I know I will use this in my future classrooms and will want to build a class that collaborates and works with students, peers, parents, and community members all over the world.

1. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats.

During my teaching experience we learned about the Civil War, and to communicate relevant information and ideas to my students using digital age media, I created a lesson that incorporated the use of computers and the internet. While they were on the computers they were required to go to multiple sites to find information and create blog posts that they could contribute to as a class whole. To make the Civil War relevant I had my students research letters and speeches that were created back in that era and create a letter or speech from a different perspective. I wanted my students to put themselves in that situation to create an old topic of history to something they could relate to. 

1. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Like I stated above, my students were required to use technology to research their topics in order to facilitate their learning. By posting their speeches and letters to a class blog, I could use this to assess and evaluate their learning and understanding of the topic. Much like how we used this blog for this class, a teacher can always go back and reference to the students work. 

Standard 2

• Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

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

For my lessons I was doing history in the Civil War era, so to incorporate digital tools and resources I had my students go online and watch youtube videos that made ideas more clear and relevant to them. I think by having them respond to letters during the Civil War put into perspective what actual people were feeling during that time. It created an experience that was relevant to their own learning experience of American history. They could use the letters to be creative in story telling and reflection.

1. 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.

This class allowed myself to pursue individual curiosities by allowing projects that let me decide what I wanted to do and set goals with. I think by allowing students to manage their learning and assess and reflect of their own progress, it allowed myself to become a better more productive student. The instructor set out for an overall goal and let the students decide from there where they wanted to go with the project. I will use this in the future with my own students because I believe I grew so much in this class by understanding how to really set up an environment with technology and integration of subjects. I will want my students to have their own curiosities of education and want to explore that in the classroom and on their own time, I think by allowing students the freedom to do so, will allow for real development of information.

1. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

In order to customize and personalize learning activities for my students with diverse learning styles, I made sure that they could work at their own rate and have the materials available to them that would help them along. I made sure that throughout the lessons I presented that my students were able to be creative within their own means to learn in a way that works best for them. The activities they did were very open ended so that they were allowed to be their own person in their learning. To do this, I had them create their own writings that they came up with or were guided along with. 

1. provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

This class showcased formative and summative assessments that aligned with content and technology standards because this class allowed us to make projects that would show our ideas and methods of teaching and presenting. For my own teaching I provided formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology by having open discussions with my students about their work, followed by a summative assessment once they were finished. I could summatively assess my students by having their work for reference and to see the progress they made throughout the lesson(s).