Overview of ISTE Standards and their role in shaping 21stcentury education.
The ISTE Standards and their key components. • Presentation on the seven ISTE Standards for Students and their role in shaping the 21st century learning. • Discussion of how each standard applies to modern educational practices.
9:30 - 9:45
Coffee Break
9:45 - 12:15
Case Study: The ISTE Standards for Student: Enabling the development of “Knowledge Constructor”
• How students can critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others? • Use effective research strategies to find resources that support their learning needs, personal interests and creative pursuits. • Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.
Day 2
7:30 - 9:00
Why should teachers improve their practice by:
• Learning from and with others • Exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning
9:00 - 10:00
The teacher as a Learning catalyst and facilitator
• How can teachers inspire students to positively contribute and responsibly participate in the digital world? • How to create experiences for students to make positive, socially responsible contributions and build inclusive communities online? • How can teachers foster digital literacy by encouraging curiosity, reflection, and the critical evaluation of digital resources? • How can teachers mentor students in safe, legal, and ethical practices with digital tools and content?
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:15
Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.
• Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field. • Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and/or computational thinking to innovate and solve problems. • Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.
11:15 - 12:45
Case Studies from schools around the world which demonstrate how teachers:
• Understand and use data to drive their instruction and support students in achieving their learning goals. • Provide alternative ways for students to demonstrate competency and reflect on their learning using technology. • Use technology to design and implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that accommodate learner needs, provide timely feedback to students and inform instruction. • Use assessment data to guide progress, personalize learning, and communicate feedback to education stakeholders in support of students reaching their learning goals.
Day 3
7:30 - 9:00
Recapitulation of the previous day
Why and with whom should teachers collaborate? • To improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. • To create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology. • To co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues. • To expand students’ authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
9:00 - 10:00
Teachers as Learning Facilitators
• Teachers facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the 2023 ISTE Standards for Students. • Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings. • Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.
10:00 - 10:15
Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:45
Teachers as Empowering Leaders
• Leaders create a culture where teachers and learners are empowered to use technology in innovative ways to enrich teaching and learning. • Empower teachers to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning. • Build the confidence and competency of teachers to put the ISTE Standards for Students and Teachers into practice. • Inspire a culture of innovation, creative problem-solving, and collaboration that allows the time to explore and develop teaching practices using digital tools. • Support teachers in using technology to advance learning that meets the diverse learning, cultural, and social- emotional needs of individual students. • Develop learning assessments that provide a personalized, actionable view of student progress in real time.
11:45 - 12:15
Group Presentations
Present group projects that contain learning experiences beyond expectations driven by authentic passion and need