21Things4Students Poster |
Participate and share : Poster
Kate Grunow Dr. Jennifer Parker
Join us for a tour of 21things4students — an ISTE Seal of Alignment honoree. Explore our free activities to integrate technology into the middle school classroom curriculum (grades 5-9). Learn to use our free curriculum and curated digital tools to build student technology proficiency based on the ISTE Student Standards.
Audience: | Curriculum/district specialists, Library media specialists, Teachers |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices required |
Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
Participant accounts, software and other materials: | We will be using the Internet |
Topic: | Using the ISTE Standards |
Grade level: | 6-8 |
ISTE Standards: | For Students: Empowered Learner
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The purpose of the 21things4 project and the resources shared here are for K-8 educators.
There are 21 "Things" - which are Ed Tech topics.
Personalize the learning by choosing a "Thing", which has several "Quests".
Each "Quest" is a project based learning experience based on free digital tools and resources to meet the ISTE Student Standards.
Move through the "Quests" and create digital artifacts, experience interactives and formative assessments, and earn Certificates and badges.
All of the resources are FREE and were created and annually updated by a team of instructional technology consultants in Michigan and supported by the State REMC Association.
Educators facilitate the web sites live or place content in their LMS to monitor students progress.
Lu, J. (2004). A personalized e-learning material recommender system. In International Conference on Information Technology and Applications. Macquarie Scientific Publishing.
Grant, P., & Basye, D. (2014). Personalized learning: A guide for engaging students with technology. International society for technology in education.
Turnip, B., Wahyuni, I., & Tanjung, Y. I. (2016). The Effect of Inquiry Training Learning Model Based on Just in Time Teaching for Problem Solving Skill. Journal of Education and Practice, 7(15), 177-181.
Watson, J. (2008). Blended Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education. Promising Practices in Online Learning. North American Council for Online Learning.
Kate Grunow has been in education for over a decade as a K-12 digital media specialist and English teacher. She currently serves 130,000 students and over 10,000 teachers as an instructional technologist in metro Detroit. She is one of the co-creators of the 21 Things 4 project and a presenter at local, state, and national conferences on topics such as blended learning, free technology tools, learning management platforms, and digital age teaching and learning. She has been the Schoology implementation lead for Macomb ISD for the past two years training over 3,000 teachers on Schoology during Covid-19.