The So I was looking through the Florida Standards on CPALMS and I found this one that really stands out: it says students should be able to use digital tools to create and communicate information effectively and solve problems, and it talks about like coding, digital safety, and applying tech in real world situations. Basically this standard is saying kids shouldn’t just know how to open Word or Google, they should know how to use technology to think and create stuff that actually matters and solve problems with it, not just click buttons. Do I feel prepared to implement this? I guess right now I feel like I understand the general idea but I’m not fully confident, I mean I know basic tools and like the sandbox event was cool, but having to teach kids how to use a bunch of different digital tools and keep it safe and meaningful like that seems like it’ll take more practice and honestly more real world teaching experience to be comfortable doing it in a classroom.
When I went into the CPALMS Educator Toolkit and clicked on the Grade 9-12 Digital Tools stuff I saw there’s lesson plans, student tutorials, and example projects tied to the standards that like go with the digital creation standard I picked. One that stuck out to me was this lesson plan for statistics for kids in high school that I saw was tech oriented and easy to break down which is basically perfect. It finds a nice way to balance things and because the resources are so expansive you can treat like a buffet. Overall not at all bad and something I would use, probably more than any other thing I've been introduced to so far.
Honestly I still have questions about how we’re supposed to balance teaching all this new tech stuff with like the regular content we already have to teach, because it feels like if I just spend all day on lessons about digital tools then I’m not actually teaching stats or geometry or algebra, you know? I’m curious how other teachers are planning to weave these standards seamlessly into their classrooms without it just being a tech day that happens once a week and getting behind on what appears to be a tight teaching schedule. So my discussion question would be: how can we make teaching tech standards like digital creation and problem solving part of everyday learning in every subject, instead of an extra thing on top of everything else we already have to do? Like is it supposed to be threaded through every lesson or is it okay to teach it as its own thing?
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