Student & Teacher Competencies

All Children Must Be Ready
for a Different World

Our Educational System Must Produce
Technology Capable Kids

To live, learn, and work successfully in an increasingly complex and information-rich society, students must be able to use technology effectively. Within an effective educational setting, technology can enable students to become:

• Capable information technology users
• Information seekers, analyzers, and evaluators
• Problem solvers and decision makers
• Creative and effective users of productivity tools
• Communicators, collaborators, publishers, and producers
• Informed, responsible, and contributing citizens

(From ISTE's Introduction: http://cnets.iste.org/intro.html)

http://cnets.iste.org/
ISTE has worked diligently to create and periodically refresh tThe National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project. This is an ongoing initiative to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States and globally.

http://cnets.iste.org/students/
The National Educational Technology Standards for Students is designed to provide teachers, technology planners, teacher preparation institutions, and educational decision-makers with frameworks and standards to guide them in establishing enriched learning environments supported by technology.

http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/
Major functions of the project are to:

1. develop a comprehensive set of performance-based technology foundation standards for all teachers reflecting fundamental concepts and skills for using technology to support teaching and learning;
2. define essential conditions for teacher preparation and school learning environments necessary for effective use of technology to support teaching, learning, and instructional management;
3. develop standards-based performance assessment tools for measuring the achievement of the technology foundation standards and as a basis for certification, licensing, and accreditation; and
4. identify and disseminate models of teacher preparation where candidates receive experiences preparing them to effectively apply technology to support student learning; and
5. establish a National Center for Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (NCPT3) which will provide coordination, leadership, and support for the PT3 initiative and dissemination of program results.

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showstoryts.cfm?Articleid=7299
On Aug. 2, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a national coalition of business and education leaders, issued a revised plan to help students and educators achieve 21st-century learning goals.

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/technology/nclb/standards.htm
Educational Technology Standards for Students
A Crosswalk between ISTE's Standards and NYS Learning Standards

http://www.metiri.com/features.html
In this digital age, intellectual capital drives progress, so political, social, and economic advances in the 21st century will be possible only if the intellectual potential of America's youth is well developed. To accomplish this, we must meet the changing learning needs of all students.

http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/teaching/icteach.htm
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competencies for Teachers

http://www.uni.edu/darrow/partic/techcomp.html#computer
Take a look at this evaluation chart of undergraduate teacher education technology competencies at the University of Norther Iowa.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/
An online series of FREE, award-winning professional development workshops covering important and timely topics in education. The workshops are intended for teachers, administrators, librarians, or anyone interested in education -- and there's no technical expertise required. They are self-paced, so you can explore them on your own time and go back as often as you like.

http://www.edutopia.org/an-incredible-journey
This meeting, held on a brisk January afternoon, is anything but typical. Today, the staff will be challenged to change how they think about teaching. They'll be asked to say good-bye to the long-held practice of working solely within their departments with familiar colleagues (English teachers with English teachers, math teachers with math teachers, and so on) in favor of interdisciplinary projects and activities. They'll be asked to rethink their time-tested curricula in favor of a new way of teaching and learning that takes students outside of the classroom and into the world beyond...Learn how teachers can change the way they teach to incorporate technology to enhance student achievement.

http://www.rubicon.com/

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