Standards
Indicators
ISTE Definition
100

Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.

What is Empowered Learner?

100


Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

What is Global Collaborator?

100

What does the I in ISTE stand for?

What is international?

200

Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.

What is Digital Citizen?

200

Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

What is Creative Communicator?

200

What does the S in ISTE stand for?

What is Society?

300

Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

What is Knowledge Constructor?

300

Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

What is Computational Thinker?

300

What does the T in ISTE stand for?

What is technology?

400

Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

What is Innovative Designer?

400

Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.

What is Innovative Designer?

400

What does the E in ISTE stand for?

What is Education

500

Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions.

What is Computational Thinker?

500


Students engage in a positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.

What is Digital Citizen?

500

What does ISTE stand for?

What is the International Society for Technology in Education?

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