Technology and Leadership: ISTE Student Standards: Programs and Activities

Programs and Activities:

Addressing ISTE Student Standards in Schools

Schools can best address the ISTE Standards for Students by embedding them into their teaching and learning outcomes. The standards can be addressed within collaboration, productivity and accountability, critical thinking, complex communication, and creativity. Technology integration can transform what we teach and how we teach. The ISTE Standards pave a pathway for teachers, leaders, coaches, and administrators to redesign their schools and classrooms for digital age citizens

ISTE Standards for Students

Students are driving their education now more than ever. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to provide students with the tools to navigate in the ever-changing digital world. To view programs and activities that schools can address through the ISTE Standards for Students, click on the link below the Standard descriptions.

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