Standard 4.3 Diversity, Cultural Understanding & Global Awareness
Candidates model and facilitate the use of digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs, enhance cultural understanding, and increase global awareness. (PSC 4.3/ISTE 5c)
Artifact: blog post
Reflection:
The artifact used is a blog post from the ITECH 7430 class. Before completing this post, we were assigned to watch a video post by Alan November. The video was about the culture of today’s digital natives and how it affects the way they learn. One of the most eye-opening piece of information he starts with is that students can google everything you teach and learn the same information. Throughout this post, I discuss how students should take ownership of their learning.
Throughout this activity, I model and facilitate digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs by using several web 2.0 tools with my students. I have explained in my post how I enhanced cultural understanding by sharing the use of digital tools for my students to create products of the digital world in which they live. By having access to web 2.0 tools, teachers can keep students more engaged throughout their lessons and activities. Utilizing web 2.0 tools such as PenPal and others will increase global awareness among students because these tools are being used to venture students outside of their own classroom.
After completing this artifact, I explained that I want to know more about how to incorporate Flipgrid into my classroom more. Since then, I have used Flipgrid often within my classroom and students enjoy it. Not only do they use it in class, but we use it once a week for homework assignments. One such assignment was to interview their parents about inherited and acquired traits. I have enjoyed learning about Flipgrid and how to use it with my students. One thing I would do differently would be to add information about how teachers can inform their students about cultural understanding through different lessons and activities.
This artifact impacts faculty development because it gets them to question the digital age we live in. Through this post, teachers can become aware of the many different tools that are available to them that could enhance student learning and engagement. To measure this, different professional development can focus on digital tools and how to use them. Administration can monitor this through walkthroughs and observations.
The artifact used is a blog post from the ITECH 7430 class. Before completing this post, we were assigned to watch a video post by Alan November. The video was about the culture of today’s digital natives and how it affects the way they learn. One of the most eye-opening piece of information he starts with is that students can google everything you teach and learn the same information. Throughout this post, I discuss how students should take ownership of their learning.
Throughout this activity, I model and facilitate digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs by using several web 2.0 tools with my students. I have explained in my post how I enhanced cultural understanding by sharing the use of digital tools for my students to create products of the digital world in which they live. By having access to web 2.0 tools, teachers can keep students more engaged throughout their lessons and activities. Utilizing web 2.0 tools such as PenPal and others will increase global awareness among students because these tools are being used to venture students outside of their own classroom.
After completing this artifact, I explained that I want to know more about how to incorporate Flipgrid into my classroom more. Since then, I have used Flipgrid often within my classroom and students enjoy it. Not only do they use it in class, but we use it once a week for homework assignments. One such assignment was to interview their parents about inherited and acquired traits. I have enjoyed learning about Flipgrid and how to use it with my students. One thing I would do differently would be to add information about how teachers can inform their students about cultural understanding through different lessons and activities.
This artifact impacts faculty development because it gets them to question the digital age we live in. Through this post, teachers can become aware of the many different tools that are available to them that could enhance student learning and engagement. To measure this, different professional development can focus on digital tools and how to use them. Administration can monitor this through walkthroughs and observations.