ISBE and ISTE Standards

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ISBE and ISTE Standards

• Annette Manka
• Media Technology for Educators
• Northeastern Illinois University

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History of ILS and NETS

• Illinois Learning Standards (ILS) 1997
• Reason for development define what all
  students in all Illinois public schools should
  know and be able to do in the seven core areas as
  a result of their elementary and secondary
  schooling. http//www.isbe.state.il.us/ils

• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
  1998
• Reason for development to guide educational
  leaders in recognizing and addressing the
  essential conditions for effective use of
  technology to support Pre K-12 education.
  http//cnets.iste.org/nets_overview.html

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ISBE Learning StandardUsing Technology K -12
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ISTE-NETS Performance Indicators for K - 2
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Technology Standards for Teachers

• Technology Standards for all Illinois Teachers (8
  standards)
• Performance Indicators
• Illinois Standards Aligned Classroom (SAC)

• ISTE-NETS Educational Technology Standards for
  all Teachers (6 standards)
• Performance Indicators
• NETS Program

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Nice to Knowvs. Need to Know

• Standards long range goals
• Need to be Prioritized
• Four filters of narrowing (Wiggins McTighe)
• http//www.ubdexchange.org/default.html
• Lifelong learning, information literacy skills,
  computer literacy skills, realistic problem
  solving
• McCade, Joseph, Technology Education
• and Computer Literacy, The Technology
• Teacher v61, no. 2 2001

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Communicationthe common thread

• National Forum on Information Literacy
• Technological literacy across all grade levels
• Research, results, record data, problem solve,
  experimentation compare/contrast, analysis,
  interactive telecommunications, simulations,
  creativity

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Technology Education

• The aim (of education) must be the training of
  independently acting and thinking individuals
  who, however, can see in the service to the
  community their highest life achievement.
• - Albert Einstein