Saturday, February 27, 2016

ISTE Standards

The ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Standards prepare students, teachers, and administrators for the future. (International Society for Technology in Education, n. d.). These standards evolved from the NETS standards proposed at the turn of the century, and focus intensely on technology and 21st century ideas like the 4 C's and digital citizenship.













ISTE Standards for Students (International Society for Technology in Education, n. d.)


Thanks goes to ISTE for creating the standards, but what do we do as educators to incorporate them into our classrooms? Some might feel overwhelmed by another set of standards in addition to the Common Core or other state mandates, but it turns out that the ISTE standards are meant to be a lot more integrative than additive.

We should use these guidelines not as additions to content, but rather as a tool for providing it. Standards were created for teachers, students, administrators, coaches, and computer science educators, but they all have a few themes running through them. Take a look at the standards for students in the graphic above, and then the Prezi on the teacher standards here. Creativity, Innovation, Digital Age Work, and Digital Citizenship are all addressed by each standard, and they carry on through the other three standards sets.

The ISTE standards do not change the content of the classroom, but rather how the content is taught. Rather than teaching through direct instruction and asking students to practice the modeled content in their notebooks, educators should use innovative tools to engage students in the content, and then prompt them to collaborate with their peers in a much more meaningful way. The standards differ subtly according to who is being addressed, but at their heart, they are all about using technology to transform education.


References
Gaetjens, M. & Gartin, J. (2016). ISTE standards for teachers [Prezi]. Retrieved from https://prezi.com/i8hyovf6csfj/iste-standards/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

International Society for Technology in Education. (n.d.). ISTE standards for students. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-students



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