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).