Question 1

To close the Digital USE Divide, teachers have increased the inclusion of instructional technology to create meaningful, personalized, and deep learning experiences for students.  Instructional technology has the capacity to create disruptive innovation of traditional and current methods of teaching and learning.

(1.a) Explain the Digital USE Divide and provide a justification for why it is essential for educators to be responsive to the challenge of closing or minimizing the Digital USE Divide.

(1.b) Explain how ISTE’s 2016 Technology Standards for Students provides a foundation to close the digital use divide. Provide an overview of the seven ISTE Technology Standards for Students in your response.

(1.d) Using the Pic-Rat Model, describe a lesson plan, that you identified or developed, which demonstrates the students’ use of instructional technology and provides students with a transformational learning experience