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Standard # 2: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

__NETS Addressed__:

Teachers design, develop and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes identified in the NETS*S.

Teachers: A. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. B. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to prusue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning and assessing their own progress. C. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities using digital tools and resources. D. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

Artifacts to demonstrate knowledge of this standard: = **__Nonlinguistic Representations__** = =Marzano spoke to the fact that research shows that knowledge is stored in 2 forms: Linguistic and Visual. Most students are bombarded with the linguistic part, and the nonlinguistic can be overlooked. Nonlinguistic representations can "stimulate the brain and increase brain activity". Plus, I think they are a lot more fun for the students to create. I have become a big fan of graphic organizers and enjoy finding new styles to use with my students. They enjoy the creativity and this is helping my students learn the science concepts we are studying. I found a very useful Graphic Organizer site while visiting the citwtech Wiki. I visited the "cues, questions & advanced organizers" page and was pleasantly surprised by the number of websites that offer unique graphic organizers. There was even one devoted to science.= Reflections on meeting this standard: ﻿I was talking to our school librarian about online graphic organizers, and she showed me a very helpful application on google.com. It is called: "Wonder Wheel". We put this app. into action when my students were working on an Endangered Animal report. Talk about an easy way for the kids to find topic-related websites! It was easy for the kids to follow because of it's graphic organizer feel. Goals for the Future : I will continue to teach Wonder Wheel when kids are doing online research, and the graphic organizer apps. we looked at have broaden my possibilities in the classroom. 