Instructional Content
Standards:
Common Core ELA Standards: Production and Distribution of WritingWith guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Science
ISTE Standard:
Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals. Students:
- choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
- create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
- communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
- publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences.
Task Force Recommendations and ISTE Standards
Creative Communicator: In this lesson, students used a variety of resources to create an interactive poster that enabled them to communicate their knowledge of bees clearly and creatively.
Recommendation 1: In this lesson, the teacher provides the guidance and support needed as her kindergarten students work toward developing learner agency.
In the video above, this five-year-old kindergartener is developing learner agency by digitally annotating a visual text. She begins to struggle as she can’t seem to remember how to choose the text tool. She presses on the iPad several times and notices that an arrow appears. She knows this is not what she wants, so she deletes it. She stops for a second and suddenly realizes where the text tool is located. It is at this point that she seeks confirmation from the teacher.