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=Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity =

====Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. ====

Teachers:

 * 1) ====promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness ====
 * 2) ====engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources ====
 * 3) ====promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes ====
 * 4) ====model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments ====

 
 * This wiki site which highlights a collaborative project for an English class demonstrates all four of the indicators listed under Standard 1. It requires creative and innovative thinking skills, engages students in solving problems, utilizes digital tools and resources and allows for students to engage in a meta-cognitive analysis of how they personally functioned in the virtual environment and also how they interacted with each other.
 * This [|site] addresses indicator 1.1 and has an advanced art lesson that involves a tremendous amount of creative thinking and utilizes the scanner and Photoshop.

**Resources**:


 * This paper presents a brief survey of tools which were tested for collaborative knowledge construction. The aim of the tests was to find out what users expect from such tools and how they should evolve in the future.
 * This YouTube video is a presentation created by Case Western Reserve University entitled __What We Know About Collaborative Technology and Learning Outcomes Series__: Collaboration Technology Summit 2009.
 * This is an important reminder from our students encouraging us to [|engage them].

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