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**Rationale 1: **
Students have been submitting assignments for their entire school career. As the evolution of technology continues it is important to continue to the students’ development of technology. Yes, it seems that students have a better working knowledge of technology, but in this instance of online assignment submission, I held the upper hand. As I mentioned before, students have continually submitting assignments, so in order to know how students grow and be able to help them learn these new skills for the 21st century. 2.K.2 The teacher understands that students’ physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive development influence learning and knows how to address these factors when making instructional decisions. Students continually to be more interested in using technology, therefore, it is important for me as a teacher to adapt instruction to meet their needs. I have done this by having students submit assignments online. 2.S.2 The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning tasks. For the online assignment submission, I was using the students’ knowledge of assignment submission and adapting it into the form of online submission. 2.D.2 The teacher is disposed to use students’ strengths as a basis for growth, and their errors as an opportunity for learning. As mentioned before, students have a strong suit of knowing and being able to apply them efficiently and productively by using technology. That is why I decided to harness these strengths of the knowledge of technology to use for educational purposes.
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