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1. As **//COGNITIVE MEDIATOR//**, the educator helps students to become independent learners who construct meaning by combining new information with their own background knowledge.
 * Discuss __two assignments__ that you completed using a South Dakota State Standards topic in your major area of study. Describe each technology program and then tell how you could use that program with your students to enhance their technology skills when you start teaching. **

2. As **//RESEARCHER//**, the educator seeks to improve educational practices within the school setting, using an inquiry approach to serve students more effectively.


 * How has completing research in this class (reading the journal articles/watching videos, researching sites on the Internet, creating a presentation for class) helped you to become a better teacher candidate? **

3. As **//COMMUNICATOR//**, the educator is skilled in modes of communication that will enable effective communication and collaboration with other educators, parents, and families. 4. As **//EVALUATOR//**, the educator maximizes students’ learning by using a full range of formal and informal information-gathering processes in order to respond appropriately to student individual differences.
 * Discuss __two technology applications__ that will help you to communicate to your students and their parents when you become a teacher? Describe how you could use each one to communicate to either students or parents when you are teaching. **


 * Discuss __two technology applications__ that you used and evaluated this semester? Why did you find each one useful and how might you use them in the classroom when you start teaching? **