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November ITL Standard Focus-Empowered Learner

This month the LTR posts will be focused on Empowering Learners. Since this is the first post of the month on it, this post will focus on what standards are included in this heading.

EL1-Students leverage digital tools and strategies to take an active role in choosing and achieving their learning goals. Supporting Standards include: EL1.a: Set goals and reflect. EL1.b: Build network to support learning. EL1.c: Create personalized learning environment. EL1.d: Seek and utilize feedback.

Some things to reflect on with this standard that many of us already do are:

  • Setting goals and reflecting is something that many of us already do our classrooms and with the district going 1:1 it just makes sense to start modeling and expecting students to utilize digital tools like SeeSaw, Google Docs, Classroom and Gmail to make, reflect upon and modify goals on a regular basis. Show them the benefits and drawbacks of each and let them have the choice on how they choose to reflect. 
  • Personalized Learning Environments as we learned last spring is a way to engage students, by allowing them to explore in parameters students will be more engaged and thus will be able to delve deeper into making connections with your curriculum and the world around them.
  • Feedback is often given teacher to student, do you allow students to look for feedback from their peers or other professionals? 

EL2 - Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations and demonstrate the ability to choose, use, and troubleshoot current technologies. Supporting Standard EL2.a: Understand and apply functions and operations.

This one is a tad bit trickier and may not directly relate to many curricular areas, but the foundations do. Do you guide students through troubleshooting their devices or projects? If something isn't going exactly as expected do we contact support right away? No, our minds are our first line of defense and looking at why or how something is behaving in a certain way is important. 

Take a step back and go through the steps that you went through to get to the spot you are. Did you make a mistake? Maybe the website or file just needs to be rebooted. 

EL3 - Students are able to transfer knowledge to explore emerging technologies. Supporting Standard EL3.a: Transfer knowledge to emerging technology.

Many of us already ask students to make connections with our curriculum. The same goes here, many technologies have the same base and students should be making connections with current technologies with those that they are exposed to as new. 

Now that I have fully filled your brains with a bunch of OH, NO! I don't do this, or Psh, this doesn't relate to me. There are ways that it does. Please look for 3 more posts regarding Empowered Learners where I will pick each of these standards apart and give ideas of how they can be integrated or may already be integrated into your curriculum.



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