eMINTS Competencies
4. Inquiry and Innovation: Educator promotes discovery, creativity, inventiveness and innovation in the learning environment.
f. Engages learners in using digital tools to explore, discover, create and engage in real-world issues and solve authentic problems. 6. Knowledge Construction: Educator cultivates complex thinking and knowledge construction. b. Provides scaffolds (e.g., reception, transformation and production scaffolds) to aid learners in organizing and evaluating information. c. Provides tools for students to collect evidence and to clearly communicate claims. 7. Self-directed Learners: Educator equips learners to become self-directed. d. Provides strategies, scaffolding and/or coaching to help learners become self-directed and self-reliant. |
ISTE Standards for Educators5. Designer: Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.a. Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
b. Design authentic learning activities that align with content area standards and use digital tools and resources to maximize active, deep learning. |