NETS for Teachers

NETS for Students

NETS stands for Nationals Educational Technology Standards. These standards are broken down into performance indicators for all teachers and foundation standards for students.

NETS for Teachers

I believe the most crucial standard for teachers is:

TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND CONCEPTS.
Teachers demonstrate a sound understanding of technology operations and concepts. Teachers:

A.     demonstrate introductory knowledge, skills, and understanding of concepts related to technology (as described in the ISTE National Education Technology Standards for Students)

B.     demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay abreast of current and emerging technologies.

Teachers need to have basic knowledge and skills of various programs that will allow them to extend their knowledge to their students. Without the basic foundation of understanding technology operations and concepts the teacher will not be effective in creating a technology environment in their classroom.

Proficient knowledge of technology allows a teacher to be more productive. Technology is a large part of our society. Parents are impressed when their child’s teacher is knowledge able in technology.

A teacher can demonstrate competency in technology operations and concepts by attending workshops and conferences that keep skills up to date. With this knowledge and expertise they can create websites for their classroom, and teach students how to maintain and create their own website.

NETS for Students

I believe the most crucial standard for students is:

5.Technology research tools

• Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
• Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
• Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

 Students need to understand the different types of web pages, what sights are reliable web pages for information and what are not. They need to decide where to get information from and how to reference that information in the correct manner. Knowing and understanding where to extract information from makes a students more productive in their fact finding abilities.