ISTE Standard 4: Collaborator
Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. Educators:
- Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
- Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.
- Use collaborative tools to expand students’ authentic, real- world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
- Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
Artifact 4
In this artifact, I demonstrate the use of a collaborative online tool in a French language classroom. In this activity, students connect with a francophone country such as Québec or Cote d'Ivoire via ePals, a digital penpal service and using Skype or Google Hangouts for face to face interaction. In the activity, students come prepared with some topics and engage with their international peers in the target language. Afterward, students will write a reflection about what they learned and what they struggled with, in French. They can supplement English to convey something they don’t know how to say. This is an activity I think would be valuable to perform two or three times over the course of the year to remind students of the value and growth of their language speaking abilities. Each time, students would experience an increase in proficiency / grow more comfortable