Information and Technology Literacy

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Information and Technology Literacy

• The New Wisconsin Standards

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State of the Art
I did my report on a 2000 computer using the
latest version of the software, I used an 800
scanner for the graphics and printed it out on a
1500 color printer and I still got a D- on my
report!
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Wisconsin Information and Technology Literacy
Standards

• Designed to be integrated into content areas
• Focus on learning WITH information and
  technology, rather than learning ABOUT
  information and technology.

• Identify and define knowledge and skills for ALL
  students
• Involve accessing, evaluating and using
  information and technology
• Connect and interrelate current perspectives in
  information literacy, media literacy and
  technology literacy into a single, unified
  framework.

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The Standards...
...are based on Brain-based learning principals.
...link HOW we learn with WHAT we need to teach.
are the main focus in education today, followed
by 2. Assessment 3. Curriculum 4.
Instruction
incorporate SCANS report data, ISTE standards
and NETS.
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Key Focus of the Standards

• Integration within the four core areas of
  Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.

• Use of technology can improve learning and
  increase productivity.

• Emphasizing technology as a problem
• solving tool.

• Acquiring the most up-to-date hardware
• and software is not a priority.

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DPI View

• DPI view on technology is that classroom TEACHERS
  will do it - hiring computer teachers, technology
  teachers, will not promote integration.
• Technology skills taught in isolation are a waste
  of time.

• Teachers need support in this task working WITH
  library media specialists, resource teachers,
  help with keeping equipment running, etc.

• The technology supports the curriculum and
• teachers efforts, not the reverse.

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Increasing Teacher Awareness of the Standards

• Publish information about technology standards in
  school newsletter, local paper, etc
• Focus on a standard of the week present
  information on a particular standard and give
  examples of how to incorporate it.

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• Place a huge standards grid in a central
  location. Teachers can initial the actual grid
  and monitor how many the school is meeting at
  each of the three grade level areas. Or, hold an
  alignment marathon night for teachers to fill
  in the grids.

Present a regular lesson plan and a
technology-enhanced plan to show how to
incorporate.
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Teacher Training and Staff Development

• When it comes to technology in education, you
  can create it, you can design it, you can produce
  it, you can legislate it, you can order it,
  re-structure it, give it standards, and write out
  names for it, but if it is going to happen,
  teachers have to make it happen.
• Jacqueline Goodlee, Teacher