At Kai XR, education and technology are our two favorite things. Naturally, we’re huge fans of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference. This year, we’re excited to share that our founder, Kai Frazier, will be presenting at ISTE 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Before you join us at ISTE 2022, we’d love to share more about:
Stick around for some riveting edtech action, and join us later in the month for ISTE Live 2022.
ISTE 2022 is a hybrid event, full of amazing live and virtual presentations, exhibits, and panels. Scrambling for the details? We’re dropping answers to ISTE 2022 frequently asked questions below.
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Kai XR is a metaverse learning platform specializing in virtual field trips and metaverse makerspaces.
Access to our library allows students to do things like:
In addition to these trips, we recently debuted a virtual makerspace where students can create their own VR worlds—and they can do it all right from their desks!
Our mission is to help all students thrive in an age of rapid technological advancements, no matter how much or how little funding their school receives.
ISTE provides a great framework for what standards educators should aim to help their students achieve. We designed our offerings to make it easy for classrooms to meet these standards.
Below, we’ll take a look at the ISTE standards for learning in the digital age and share how we can help any classroom get on track to hit these benchmarks.
ISTE’s first standard focuses on preparing students to be empowered learners who take an active role in their technology use. Domains of this standard include:
Empowered learners are not afraid to try new things, fail, and draw on past experiences to problem solve. These students are secure in their ability to learn. This skill is invaluable in an age of rapid, exponential growth in technology.
No matter how high-tech a classroom is today, students will still need to learn new skills a decade down the line.
Educators can use our technology to empower their students. Here are some ideas:
However you apply our tools to your VR classroom, we hope you’ll aim to empower your students to make their own decisions and feel that they have a role in their own education.
Learn more about empowering students at the following ISTE 2022 sessions:
After cultivating a responsibility to self, it’s time for students to learn how to responsibly interact with others as an upstanding digital citizen.
No matter what technology you choose to incorporate in your classroom, make sure that students remember that they are interacting with a product created by and for real people. Digital citizens:
For safety reasons, most elementary and middle school educators will opt to keep their students off of platforms where they can interact with others. However, it's still possible to teach digital etiquette without compromising student safety.
Consider leveraging edtech to teach these skills. You can also create your own faux social media site where students can leave comments about whichever 360º virtual field trips they attend.
Engage in discussions about digital citizenship with other educators at the following ISTE 2022 conference sessions:
This standard is all about research and fact-finding skills. Many of today’s elementary school students have a Snopes-like ability to identify faulty information. However, there is always room to grow here as marketers weave ads deeper into the fabric of social media.
Students who are strong knowledge constructors are able to:
While our platform isn’t a research database, it is a rich collection of 100+ digital experiences that exemplify top-notch journalism.
Educators can have their classes attend the same virtual field trip and then trace the methods creators may have used to compile the facts. Did the creators of a virtual field trip:
Our experiences are a great jumping off point for in-depth lessons on research skills.
Talk knowledge construction with other educators at the following iste national conference sessions:
We strive to cultivate students’ skills as developers and designers, not consumers. Students who are innovative designers can:
New technologies offer many pathways to this end goal. Our Makerspace is one of them!
In our Makerspace, students can bring an idea to life and then refine it into a finished product. To help guide the process, educators can give students creative freedom but share typical steps of the design process:
Learn more about fostering innovative design in your classroom at the following ISTE 2022 New Orleans events:
Digital literacy facilitates work with numbers. For example, high school students who are familiar with digital spreadsheets will have a much easier time in statistics classes than peers unfamiliar with these online tools.
No matter what career students pursue, numbers will be involved in some form. You can set students up for future success by providing them with the skills of a computational thinker:
Our digital experiences aimed at career and technical education can help students understand how computational thinking skills will help them in the future.
Ready to nurture a classroom full of computational thinkers? Swap tips with other educators at the ISTE 2022 sessions below:
Effective communication is invaluable for helping the public understand important data and statistics.
This type of communication generally encompasses both words and visuals. As XR becomes more mainstream, it will likely encompass immersive reality as well.
To set students up for future success, educators can teach them how to:
Although Facebook rebranded as Meta and shared plans to go all in on the metaverse, their social platforms still attract millions of users each day. The age of social media isn’t over yet. It’s important for students to learn how to navigate this space.
Here’s a great activity for using virtual reality to teach students how to communicate online:
Creatively communicate about creative communication at this year’s ISTE conference in New Orleans:
No matter where students hit their stride—numbers, design, or communication—they must be prepared to share their work and ideas with a global community.
Students prepared for global collaboration know how to:
Learn more about building a classroom of global collaborators at the 2022 ISTE conference:
We would love to see you at ISTE New Orleans 2022!
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