Read the following ISTE standard on Student Communication and answer questions 1-2 in your blog:
"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.
-6a: Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
-6b: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
-6c: Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.
-6d: Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences."
1. How are you currently incorporating this standard with your students?
2. How could you implement more of this standard with you students?
I use this standard with projects that we do, particularly Genius Hour. We work to choose the sources we will use, the way we will present and who our audience is, which will determine what we will choose as our presentation media. We have a step by step process that we tweaked that made it a process where they brainstorm, ask questions, choose their audience and media for their process, they research, then they create their presentation whether it is a website, a video, a poster, a model or whatever, then they present to the class.
I could implement this standard more if I had more time to plan with the fourth grade team to create STEAM projects. Then we could build projects that are more meaningful and related to everything we're learning, and they can incorporate great technologies.
I commit to having my students practice communicating more kindly to each other because that is a struggle in our classroom.
