Robin Green EDUC 5373

ISTE Standard Empowered Learner 1.a says learners “set learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process to improve learning outcomes.” Educators focused on brain-based learning understand that cognitive processes including metacognition, self-regulation, and executive function work in concert with memory to help students have rich, meaningful learning experiences (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). Self-regulation, for example, involves students managing their cognitive activity to set goals and figure out how to achieve them. Additionally, in Fostering Student Creativity , Gura notes the importance of making creativity a priority (2020). Each of these processes can be supported with the disciplined integration of technology that help students create and produce meaningful content.

  Part 1: AIW Authentic Intellectual Work focuses on learning opportunities that are complex and personally meaningful, where students produce artifacts that are the result of “disciplined inquiry” (Newmann, et. al., 2007, p. 3). AIW focuses on students constructing knowledge to solve real-world problems rather than on learning discrete skills developed without any contextual relevance. These are the major components of AIW: construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry, and production of artifacts with applications beyond school (Newmann et. al, 2007). Applications of this type of authentic work are supported by empirical research. The most remarkable result showed significant gains on standardized exams for students in high authentic pedagogy classes versus those in low authentic pedagogy classes (Newmann et. al, 2007, Chapter 2). This result is significant particularly because it directly disputes arguments that, in order for students to make appropriate gains on standardized, ...

 Part 1 Introduction My name is Robin Green, and I am an instructional designer for an EdTech company. I am currently working on adapting Algebra I source content to create interactive, engaging online lessons for our students. I've worked in the EdTech space for over 16 years and taught in small rural schools in Oklahoma for 10 years before that. My goal now is to couple my teaching and EdTech experience with the academic background needed to continue growing in my career.  Outside of my professional life, I'm a mom to 3 adult children in their 20s, and my husband and I just returned from a terrific leaf peeping trip through Vermont and New Hampshire.  Part 2 Learning Activity Computational Thinker standard 5.b asks students to collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making. Students in a 7th grade math class could meet OAS standard A.2 by using Google Sh...