Standard Two: Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning

Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning
experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and
resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS-S.

Name of Artifact: Volcano Activity

Date: October 2014
Course: EDUC 201: Using Computers in Education

Brief Description: This assignment is simple, while it includes components of

online technology as well as visuals for presentation. Students are given a list of
volcano parts, must research their personal component on the internet, and then
make a model of a volcano and label where their component lies on the volcano.
Rationale: To demonstrate my understanding of Standard Two: Design and
Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments, I have chosen to
include my Volcano Activity assignment. This activity incorporates the
contemporary tool of internet searching to discover the locations of volcano parts,
as well as requires students to come together as a team and use social skills to
collectively construct a model of a volcano and label their individual parts. This
project promotes students to work independently, as well as collectively, to work
on positive attitudes and teamwork in a social environment. While working
collectively, students will be more likely to maximize their learned content through
observation of other students findings. I used Microsoft Word to create this
document.