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.