IDEAcon Sessions Connected to the ISTE Standards for Students

ISTE STANDARDS FOR STUDENTS

Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process.

The best professional development for educators should always connect to what is best for students. This is one of the reasons why IDEAcon is one of my favorite teaching and learning conferences.  I love how many sessions I can connect to the ISTE Standards for Students. Here is a sampling of some of the sessions that I think connect to these standards.

Empowered Learner - Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

• Being the Educator Your Scholars Need
• Empowering Learners through UDL and Student-Determined Assessments
• Student Voice & Choice in the Classroom
• The Big Ask
• We've Got SOLE: Integrating Technology with Inquiry-Based Research for 21st Century Learning
• Student-Centered Learning Using Choice Boards

Digital Citizen - Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

• An Intensive Field Trip: Foundations for Conversations on Justice and Equity
• Be a DigCit Superhero! Empowering Students With Embedded Digital Citizenship
• #KidsCanTeachUs: Reading, Thinking, and Kid Voice Believing
• Edtech Projects for Global Impact: Digital Storytelling, Coding, and AR/VR for Social Good
• Taking the Digital out Citizenship
• Teach Boldly: Using Edtech for Social Good

Knowledge Constructor - Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

• Reader’s Choice! Leveraging Technology to Allow Student Choice in Reading
• Student Choice/Student Voice: Using HyperDocs to Expand Student Learning
• Engaging All Students With Creative Student Voice Activities
• Using Google MyMaps to Explore Our World
• Holy Sheets! Google Sheets Activities for all Subjects
• Engage All Students with Formative Digital Feedback the Fun and Powerful Way

Innovative Designer - Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

• PBL, Virtual Reality and Inquiry: Make Learning Immersive and Meaningful
• Using Design Thinking and Technology To Foster Creative Problem Solving
• Design Sprint: Quick & Creative Moments In The Classroom
• Creating Collaboratively: Teaching teamwork, building soft skills, and making amazing things
• Going Beyond Foil & Popsicle Sticks: Advancing Design Thinking at School

Computational Thinker - Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

• Applying Digital Skills to “Non Digital” Classes
• Coding Can Take your Teaching to Infinity and Beyond
• Machine Learning for Kids
• GameStormEDU: Discover How Students and Educators Can Design Physical and Digital EduGames!
• Girls Who Code: Teaching Girls to Code and Change the World

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.

• Maria and Jen’s Green Screen Magic Show
• Dive Deep into Creative Digital Storytelling!
• I Teach YouTube to My Middle School Students... and You Can Too!
• 3, 2, 1 Take Videos for in-class engagement
• The Power of Building Creativity and Communication Skills in Students
• Podcasting With Your Students
• Creating with Chromebooks: Filling Your Toolbox with Options for Every Learner

Global Collaborator - Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

• Virtual Field Trips & Connected Educators
• Creating Collaborative Spaces: The Modern Learning Environment
• Empowering Students through Issue-based Photography
• It's time to Flip for Flipgrid!
• No Purpose? What a Waste! Service Leadership for Students 101
• Virtual Field Trips & Connected Educators

This is by no means a complete list of incredible sessions connected to the ISTE Standards. I challenge everyone, presenters or attendees, to find a session they can connect to one of the ISTE Standards of Students, Educators, Educational Leaders, or Coaches. Please share your suggestions in the comments below and with the #IDEAcon hashtag.