The standards that the ISTE have put in place are a great resource for students and teachers. When it comes to technology, I think that the standards that are laid out are very practical for modern day teaching. I think applying the current roles of technology is important in order to achieve meeting the standards in order to help our students thrive. These standards help educators center their lessons around helping their students achieve certain goals, and the goals that the standards outline ae very important to the growth and development of skills that are necessary to succeed in the future. Technology can be very helpful for day-to-day life for students. For example, students can contact each other, and even create groups for studying and problem solving on social networking. These sites are very helpful when students are trying to contact other students or even past teachers for help.
To achieve the standards, it is important to integrate technology in a way that will promote learning and discovering in the classroom. It is also necessary in the way that our students must be able to use technology every day in the future, so it is important they have a platform to build their knowledge upon.
I agree that technology is an awesome way to teach today's students. I really like your ideas about students creating study groups and using social media to connect. I can think of so many times in the past where I was working on an assignment and wished I could have some feedback from other people in my class or even just talk to them to brainstorm. Online study groups would definitely be helpful to your students!
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