Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

 

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

I provided real-world experience connections through the metric conversion unit through using it in cooking. Through the online game and textbook information, the students came up with various other ways they could use conversions in reality. They talked about weighing items to understand how much produce would cost, and measuring furniture in order to make sure that it fits in a room. They were able to work on activities such as the horrendous soup game and activities in the textbook where they could come up with creative methods of using conversions and how they could apply it to their everyday life.


2. 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. 
I feel that I accomplished this through the KWL charts especially since it helped with whole group and individual self learning and assessing. By having students talk about what they know and want to know openly as a class, I was able to write up on the board all of the facts and blurbs of information that my students knew about the upcoming lesson. It also helped students realize that they had a lot in common with what they knew and wanted to know. This created a comfortable environment for the students not to feel embarrassed about what they knew or didn't know about the solar system. The chart helped them build their goals as a class and then, after the lesson, they were able to come back to it to express what they learned from the activities, presentations, and lesson as a whole.

3. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources. 
One of my students, Ronnie, cannot read or write at a fourth grade level. I helped him out a lot visually with the charts and how to use the chart in his math work for conversions. He told me that the charts were the greatest help he has ever had in class when it comes to math. He felt like he was unable to perform math facts efficiently because of his lack in being able to read or write. When I had the chart on the board and I walked my students through how to use it, it became more simplistic for my student Ronnie. I also helped my students by pairing them up with others so that they could work together and learn from each other.

4. 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.
During the science lesson that I taught my classmates, they followed the technology standards of using the computer in order to conduct research on the planets that were provided to them. It was teaching them how to use proper researching methods while they were learning the content of the solar system. There were multiple points that I was assessing; which sources they were using for their individual research, how they implemented the research into a Prezi slideshow, and what they each took away from viewing the presentations (what did they learn?). The standards covered the technology aspect of researching while the content was meeting the standards of fourth grade science topics.