In this pathway, educators progress from building foundational technology skills to designing innovative, student-centered learning experiences. Aligned with ISTE Standards for Educators, this pathway empowers teachers to integrate digital tools purposefully, foster collaboration, and lead transformative practices that personalize learning and improve student outcomes.
Whether you want to progressively build your expertise through our tiered levels to earn badges or just explore a single tool in a standalone session, there's a path for you. Join us as we harness technology not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for deeper learning, creativity, and student engagement in the modern classroom.
This level focuses on building confidence and proficiency with core digital tools and establishing a well-managed, tech-rich classroom environment.
This level shifts from tool proficiency to pedagogical application, focusing on designing and facilitating learning experiences that are thoughtfully enhanced by technology.
This level focuses on innovation and transforming the learning experience for students through personalization and differentiated instruction .
Building confidence with core tools and digital citizenship
Instructional Design with Technology
Creating engaging, tech-enhanced learning experiences.
Thoughtfully integrate digital tools to support instructional frameworks like the 4 C's (Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking).
Design and facilitate lessons using interactive presentation tools (e.g., Pear Deck, Nearpod) to foster active student participation.
Curate digital content into organized collections or modules for student access within the LMS.
Facilitating Student Collaboration & Creation:
Facilitate student collaboration on shared documents, presentations, and digital whiteboards (e.g., Google Jamboard, Miro).
Guide students in using basic multimedia tools to create simple projects like slideshows, screencasts, audio recordings, or short videos (e.g., using tools like Adobe Express, Canva, Flip).
Introduce students to the use of digital tools for brainstorming, planning, and organizing their work.
Formative Assessment & Feedback:
Use digital tools (e.g., Google Forms, Plickers, LMS quizzes) to create and administer formative assessments to gather real-time data on student understanding.
Provide timely and specific feedback on student work using digital commenting and annotation features within the LMS or productivity suites.
Teach students how to participate in digital peer feedback activities.
Differentiating Instruction with Technology:
Use technology to provide students with access to information in multiple formats (e.g., text, audio, video) to support varied learning needs.
Create tiered assignments or digital playlists that allow students to work at their own pace and level of challenge.
Utilize accessibility features built into devices and software to support students with disabilities (e.g., text-to-speech, dictation, screen readers).
Personalized Learning Pathways:
Leading transformation through personalization and impact
Utilize adaptive learning software and digital platforms that adjust to individual student performance.
Create dynamic and interactive choice boards, hyperdocs, or project menus that guide student-led inquiry.
Data-Informed Instruction & Student Agency:
Analyze data from multiple digital sources (LMS, assessment platforms, student work) to identify learning patterns and inform instructional decisions for individuals, small groups, and the whole class.
Empower students to set their own learning goals, track their progress using digital portfolios or data trackers, and reflect on their learning journey.
Authentic, Project-Based Learning:
Design complex, long-term projects where students use a variety of digital tools to solve authentic, real-world problems.
Facilitate student creation of sophisticated digital products for an authentic audience (e.g., producing podcasts, coding an app, designing a website, creating a documentary).
Connect students with experts and other classrooms globally using video conferencing and other collaborative platforms.
Innovation & Emerging Technologies:
Integrate principles of computational thinking, design thinking, and media literacy into their core subject area.
Explore, pilot, and thoughtfully evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence tools, virtual/augmented reality, coding and robotics) for their potential to enhance student learning.
Model lifelong learning by continuously seeking out new tools and pedagogical approaches.
Complete them all? Request Your Level 1 Badge
Creating Effective Supports and Scaffolds for ELL/ML Learners
How Language Impacts Learning for ELL/ML Learners
Choice Boards
Escape Rooms
Complete them all? Request Your Level 2 Badge
Personalized Learning Networks
Project Based Learning
Universal Design for Learning
Supporting ELL/MLL Learners
Supporting Students with Unique Abilities: An Introduction Course
Supporting Students' Self Confidence and Motivation: An Introduction Course
Complete them all? Request Your Level 3 Badge
Once you have successfully completed all courses in a level, you can request your completion badge through this Form. You will receive a digital badge icon and a certificate that can be used as part of your professional portfolio. Each badge earned ensures the acquisition of a specific skill set that advocates for a holistic, human-centered approach to AI literacy.
No! For those interested in earning badges, levels are not meant to be strictly followed from start to finish. Rather, they provide participants with a flexible roadmap to help inform their choices over time, pace and place of learning.
Once you complete all courses in a particular level and your attendance is marked "complete", a course registrar will provide a digital badge and certificate that you can use as part of a professional portfolio, social media profile, and/or email signature. The certificate will celebrate all the skills you have achieved for each badge level earned.
While our badging levels provide a comprehensive, structured approach to building your expertise over time, standalone sessions are perfect for supplementing your journey or diving deep into a specific topic that interests you right now. Whether you're working toward a badge or just curious, we invite you to explore and register for a session today:
Google Basics
Microsoft Office 365
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Wakelet