Robin Reynolds
03/28/2024
ISTE Educator Standards:
2.1 – Learner - Continue to improve your practice
by setting professional learning goals, continue
learning, and keep yourself updated on research that
improves student learning
2.2 – Leader – Collaborate with other educators,
voice needs and concerns with administrators,
demonstrate you uses, knowledge, and experience
with other educators
2.3 – Citizen – Lead by example and teach students
appropriate behaviors and practices to use while
using technology
2.4 – Collaborator – Use technology tools to
collaborate and learn with other educators and
students about new tools and updates to existing
tools, understand and accept cultural differences
2.5 – Designer – Use technology to design and
adapt learning activities for different types of
learners, provide students with a positive digital
learning environment
2.6 – Facilitator – Support creativity,
communication, and ownership of their person
learning goals, push students to use computational
thinking and design process to solve problems,
manage use of technology
2.7 – Analyst – Use technology to assess knowledge
for different learning types, use those assessments
for future activities and guidance for students.
Noted similarities: Both standards are about using technology to support learning, solve problems, and
collaborate with peers. Educators and students are both expected to use technology appropriately.
ISTE Educator Standards
ISTE Student Standards:
1.1 – Empowered Learner – Set personal learning
goals, develop ways to reach those goals using
technology, create their own supportive learning
environment, practice and expand knowledge on
technology, use feedback to learn and improve
1.2 – Digital Citizen – Execute and expand knowledge
on appropriate practices and procedures while using
technology, understand permeance of everything
done and said online
1.3 – Knowledge Constructor – Be able to
productively search and filter information on the
internet, organize it, use it to build knowledge
1.4 – Innovative Designer – Design a process
using technology while knowing of limits and
risks to help you with open-ended problems,
test and change process as needed
1.5 – Computational Thinker – Use technology to
break down problems, analyze data, and create
steps to help solve those problems
1.6 – Creative Communicator – Use technology
tools to communicate and express yourself and
ideas in a creative way
1.7 – Global Collaborator – Use technology to
communicate, explore, and learn with peers all
over the world with different backgrounds and
cultures
 Robin Reynolds
03/28/2024

Noted differences: Educator standards are about guiding yourself and others while student standards are
primarily about guiding themselves.