Being Apple Teacher certified allows me to be open to new projects and ideas and innovate my curriculum into technology. Using Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iMovie, and even GarageBand can be used in many different lesson plans and all give students a way to express themselves creatively. It’s relevant to my future classroom because these tools can easily fit into your classroom. Pages is a great tool to write notes, essays, and more. As a future history teacher, I think using iMovie would be a good tool for students to use. I would like to have them use it to create a project showcasing a particular time in history and set it up to music that corresponds to that time period. All of these tools are great to use in class and being certified allows me to know what I’m doing and help my students use these to the best of their abilities. Being informed with technology is very important today and for my future classroom. More and more schools are innovating tech in the classroom and it’s especially great for students to know how to use technology as they will use it more if they go to college or certain jobs. As for ISTE standards for educators I believe the Designer standard best correlates to the Apple certification. The Designer standard proves that educators are to design learner-driven activities and use technology to create and adapt to learning. I think that using these tools from Apple allow students to be creative and work toward a certain goal with the intent of learning. Having the Apple Teacher badges are going to be a great way for my to integrate technology in my classroom while still being focused on teaching my students the curriculum they need.
