2c.   Design and Develop Digitalā€Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 

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.  Specifically, teachers customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.


REFLECTIONS ON NETS-T-2c:


Although many instructors teach to higher-order cognitive, affective, and psychomotor outcomes and to specific objectives derived from their disciplines, they ignore critical conative [VOLITION] outcomes. Fortunately, technology has potential to foster engaged learning and authentic assessment that address the full range of cognitive, conative [VOLITION], affective, and psychomotor outcomes in undergraduate education. [BRACKETS MINE]

Thomas C. Reeves (2008) -- ELI Podcast: Technology and the Conative Learning Domain in Undergraduate Education


In 2006, Time Magazine named YOU and Web 2.0 Technology as its Time’s Person of the Year. The pronouncement made me realize that the YOU’s that fill my classes in the new millennium will need to be understood as whole brain individuals who learn in social settings but need to believe in their own self-efficacy in this digitized age. The first step in working with these students and in addressing NETS-T-2c standard is to determine what the “diverse learning styles,” the varied “working strategies,” and the multiple “abilities” of those who populate “distributed learning communities.” Thomas Reeves’ quotation rekindled my curiosity about the role of volition (conation) in a world mediated by computers. Thus this page was developed for my online course website. It depicts all the YOUs I will teach, their need for synchronized minds, and their need to embrace web 2.0 technologies:

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To gain information on the perceptual, cognitive, and volitional abilities of my students, I created a battery of surveys to ask students to self report what they believe about their own efficacies in these dimensions of the SELF as teacher/learner. With information from these self-reporting surveys, I will be able to tailor assignments, activities, and assessments to capitalize on modality strengths, their cognitive capabilities, and the volitional variabilities. Click here to see surveys used to determine
The Learning You, The Intelligent You, The Willing You. In addition, there is a survey that gives you clues to your Technology Tolerance.

Click here to see the
Rationales for Artifacts for this Standard.