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  eMINTS Competencies for Digital Age Teaching and Learning
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  • Community of Learners
    • 1. Classroom Collaboration
    • 2. Learning Environment
    • 3. Professional Practice
  • Authentic Learning
    • 4. Inquiry and Innovation
    • 5. Questioning
    • 6. Knowledge Construction
  • High-Quality Lesson Design
    • 7. Self-directed Learners
    • 8. Assessment
    • 9. Instructional Decisions
    • 10. Diverse Learners
    • 11. Authentic Lessons
  • Powered by Technology
    • 12. Global Collaboration
    • 13. Technology Integration
    • 14. Digital Citizenship
    • 15. Information Literacy
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Self-directed Learners

Educator equips learners to become self-directed.

Educator Exemplars

a. 
Allows learners to struggle with challenges and conflict.
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b. 
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Provides strategies and uses appropriate technologies to help learners understand how to become self-directed learners (e.g., setting goals, creating action plans, etc.).

c. 
Incorporates strategies to maintain learner interest and motivation for learning, especially when learners encounter challenges.
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d. 
Provides strategies, scaffolding and/or coaching to help learners become self-directed and self-reliant. 
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e. 
Allows learners to determine ways in which they will showcase their learning.

Learner Exemplars

a. 
Use and/or create mind maps/scaffolding tools to organize and evaluate information. 
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b. 
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Choose appropriate tool(s), including technology tools (e.g., online surveys, mind-mapping software, spreadsheets, infographics), to collect, organize and analyze data to support and enhance learning. 

c. 
Are self-reliant by using resources and scaffolding provided by educator, peers, etc., to persevere through challenges (e.g., setting goals, creating action plans, etc.). 
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d. 
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Use media, displays, presentations, graphs, charts, etc., to showcase their solutions and products to peers, parents, community members, etc. 

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Icon signifies indicators that incorporate technology
but are not included in Powered by Technology quadrant. 
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Revised April 2018
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  • Home
  • Community of Learners
    • 1. Classroom Collaboration
    • 2. Learning Environment
    • 3. Professional Practice
  • Authentic Learning
    • 4. Inquiry and Innovation
    • 5. Questioning
    • 6. Knowledge Construction
  • High-Quality Lesson Design
    • 7. Self-directed Learners
    • 8. Assessment
    • 9. Instructional Decisions
    • 10. Diverse Learners
    • 11. Authentic Lessons
  • Powered by Technology
    • 12. Global Collaboration
    • 13. Technology Integration
    • 14. Digital Citizenship
    • 15. Information Literacy