Ferdi’s Assignment for Leigh Zeitz’s Class

1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
A. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
B. create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
C. use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
D. identify trends and forecast possibilities
Student can use inspiration software to create a time line of events or brainstorm ideas.

2. Communication & Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
A. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
B. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
C. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.
D. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
Students taking online courses through WebCT. Students being placed in groups. This helps build a learning community. Students working collaboratively to complete assignments. At the end of the course students have to complete a final project using an emergent technology of their choice. (For example, Wiki's, podcast, and bloggs)(being used)

3. Research & Information Fluency
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
A. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
B. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
C. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.
D. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.
Students can use the del.icio.us website to organize research articles and to search database for relevant content. Delicious is a bookmarking database you can access from any computer.

4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Decision-Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students:
A. identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation.
B. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
C. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions.
D. use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions.
Math project (Who’s Your Mathematician?) Using google pagecreator to create a webpage on a famous mathematician. Students can work in groups to complete this project. Students will plan and conduct research on the famous mathematician. The students webpage will be the complete project. Students can visually display content by using pictures and text.

5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
A. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
B. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
C. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
D. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.
Students can create netiquette content for technologies being used in the classroom. Students can work collaboratively to create a classroom list of policy and procedures on how to conduct themselves when using technologies. Students can research the term netiquette using any search engine such as google or yahoo.

6. Technology Operations & Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. Students:
A. understand and use technology systems.
B. select and use applications effectively and productively.
C. troubleshoot systems and applications.
D. transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies.
Podcast Journaling- Students can podcast thoughts, ideas and reflections on classroom content.