Technology Standards

The new standards stress student creativity, collaboration, and become active participants in their own learning far more than the old standards. The new standards discuss using technology to increase global awareness and communication.

The old standards discuss understanding the basic forms of technology and how to use them whereas the new standards expect students and teachers to be competent in this area and expect them to complete higher level tasks.

Similarities are evaluating students through technology and increasing productivity through technology. Another similarity is to promote and model expected technological behavior. Discussing the importance of ethical behavior when using technology is another similarity I noticed. Both sets of standards discuss in depth the importance of modeling lifelong learning.

In ten years the standards will be even further developed and expect even more out of students and teachers. This could include having students develop technological based activities for their peers to use.