Today’s students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process. Connect with other educators in the ISTE Standards Community and learn how to use the standards in the classroom with the ISTE Standards for Students ebook.

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Empowered Learner

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

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Students articulate and , develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the itself to improve learning outcomes.

Students and their in ways that support the learning process.

Students to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to in a variety of ways..

Students understand the of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and current technologies and are able to their knowledge to explore .

Digital Citizen

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.

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Students cultivate and manage their and reputation and are aware of the of their actions in the digital world.

Students engage in , , and behavior when using technology, including social interactions or when using networked devices.

Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of intellectual .

Students manage their to maintain and are aware of used to track their navigation online.

Knowledge Constructor

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.

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Students plan and employ effective to locate for their intellectual or creative pursuits.

Students evaluate the , , and of information, media, data or other resources.

Students information from digital resources using a and methods to create that demonstrate .

Students by actively real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.

Innovative Designer

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

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Students know and use a for generating ideas, testing theories, creating or solving problems.

Students select and use to plan and manage a design process that considers and .

Students develop, test and refine as part of a design process.

Students exhibit a tolerance for , and the capacity to work with .

Computational Thinker

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

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Students definitions suited for methods such as data analysis, and in exploring and finding solutions.

Students or relevant data sets, use digital tools to them, and data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.

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

Students understand how works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a of steps to create and test solutions.

Creative Communicator

Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.

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Students choose the appropriate and for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

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

Students clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of such as , or .

Students publish or present content that the message and medium for their intended audiences.

Global Collaborator

Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

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Students use to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.

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

Students to project teams, and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.

Students and use collaborative technologies to work with others to .

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How have the ISTE Standards for Students evolved?

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Learning to use technology

2007

Using technology to learn

2016

Transformative learning with technology