Prompt #3

Prompt #3- Review the ISTE Standards for Students and describe how you can apply the current use/role techonolgy plays in the day-to-day life of students (to include social networking) in your classroom to help achieve the six educational standards identified by ISTE for students.

Giving the students different options on how to do projects or presentations will help the students achieve some of the standards of ISTE. If students are not limited to using just power point or just microsoft word it is allowing them to think outside of the box and helps them problem solve which are two standards of the ISTE. When I am a teacher I hope that I will have a smartboard in my classroom because then I feel like I can have interactive and engaging lectures. I do not want to limit technology in just my lectures but I would use it to do presentations like webquests infront of the whole class and all the students would be able to see what was going on. I think that computers and smartboards when used the correct way and not over used are great tools that engage kids in learning. Student's get excited and want to go up to the smartboards and draw on them or high light things. I am not really sure how I would include social networking in my classroom. I know that when I am a teacher I will use blogger.com for students because I like that you can follow your other classmates posts.