What are ISTE standards?

 What are ISTE standards? That is the question we were asked to investigate and reflect on this week. If I am being completely honest, this is the first time I was hearing or learning about the ISTE standards.

  ISTE= International Society for Technology in Education

The ISTE standards are a set of standards for Educators, Students, Educational Leaders, Coaches, and Computational Thinkers. Going through the standards for teacher and students was a nice reminder of all the work we do/should do with our students. In the technology forward world that our students are entering, it is important for them to be aware of the impact they are making as well as the impact that technology is making on them. In exploring the website and some of the videos, I noticed that one of the teachers was using my favorite classroom tech tool, SKIES. Reminding myself that there are tools that allow for student engagement, student choice, and that are easy to use for teachers makes the application of the ISTE standards less intimidating. As a culmination of our understanding of the standards, we created instructional posters using Canva. In the past I had used Canva as a tool for creating simple buttons or helping to develop my Canvas page during virtual learning, but really didn't ever go back to using it once we were back on campus. Using Canva for this assignment inspired me to only only use it for my own projects but to use it as a learning tool for students. Overall, this was a great week of learning and application.