TIE 300: NETS and MS Office

NETS
1.c. Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

• To me, this standard means that technology should be used as a tool for students to use that will help present what they have learned. If I wanted the students to do a visual presentation, I would ask them to create an interactive Power Point. I feel that this meets the standard because the students will have to display what they have learned and be able to organize it and create a presentation that is engaging for the class.

3.b. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.

• This standard says that teachers need to use technology to communicate how a student is doing to his/her parents, guardians, peers (if showing a graph without names), and staff members. To achieve this standard I would use Excel to create a grade book and graphs that reflect growth, progress, intervention, and averages. I feel this meets the standard because the grade book and these different graphs can be shown to parents, for example, at conferences to decide what plan of action is best for the student.

2.c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

• This standard means that teachers need to use technology in lessons that are engaging for all students, no matter their learning style. I would use PowerPoint to create presentations. Through PowerPoint I can embed education video clips and sound bites. Using PowerPoint will address the needs of visual learners, auditory learners, and kinestetic learners as the take notes on the presentation.