Think Aloud

ISTE- Nets Standard

Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning 

"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.
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 pursue 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 student's 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."

I believe that being able to use iPads in schools most closely relates to Standard 2 (as described above). With using iPads in schools, the children and the teachers can be more creative in learning and teaching. With all the apps out there, teachers could find fun and interesting ways to teach that would draw the students in. The Think Aloud project will definitely help me integrate technology into my classroom later on down the road because this project helped me in many ways. It helped show the relationship between websites, and by looking at mine, it draws your attention to the most important aspects of the website. The Think Aloud project can be used for all ages and with all kinds of subject matters. Doing a project like this in class can help students, as stated above, in helping them with learning experience as well as to promote student creativity by incorporating digital tools into the mix.