NETS-T2

 

2. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments

 

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the Standards.

 

 

a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity

 

 

b. 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

 

 

c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources

 

 

d. 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

 

 

Reflection-2: 

 

With the advent of technology and its intrinsic role in shaping citizens of the 21st century, it is the utmost responsibility of educators to use resources, contemporary, and technological tools to engage students in the learning process. Facilitators ought to identify their students' learning styles and further design and develop corresponding technology-packed content learning. To accomplish any degree of academic success in such endeavor, educators have to subject their students to different forms of assessments that will help edify methods that either work or do not work. Those assessments may be formative and summative. In a formative assessment, students' work require constant monitoring throughout the course of the semester in order to address academic concerns that might otherwise impede their own educational goals. Learning activities can be customized and personalized to assist specific students whose learning style may differ from the rest of the class. In a summative assessment, students go through a series of tests, such as midterm, final exams, and so on to help measure performance at specific periods over the course of the semester or the school year. These two types of assessements, when used concurrently and enriched with technology, will help calibrate educators' objectives and academic goals. 

 

Artifacts-2: 

 

This  digital story was part of the master's program, Educational Technology, at New Jersey City University in which I had to use digital tools and choose a topic of my choosing as a way of being creative. This project was also designed to enable students to pursue their personal curiosities.  

 

This Pecha-Kucha presentation is technologically-enriched and is loaded with resources. It uses digital tools to help promote students learning and creativity. It consists of 20 slides at 20 seconds each. It is based on the book called "Where Good Ideas Come From" by Steven Johnson. 

 

Unit Plan-2:

 

These artifacts fall within the framework of the NETS-2 standards, especially 2a, 2b, and 2c. In these artifacts, students are able to use digital tools to pursue their individual curiosities. They are able to design relevant learning experiences and express them creatively through digital tools made available to them. Teachers are advised to design learning experiences like these artifacts in order to encourage students in their creative works.