Technology Standards For Teachers

By: Karen Wittkamper

Venn Diagram of Standards

Maryland Standards-Communication-Understanding assistive technology-Information access, evaluation, processing and application.

National Standards-Learning and Creativity

Overlap -Professional Growth-Legal/Social/Ethical Issues-Integrating/modeling technology in the classroom-Assessments

Facilitate and Inspire Student Creativity

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas -Linus Pauling

Innovative thinking and inventiveness

Promote

Support

Model

Professional Growth

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Mortimer J. Adler

As teachers we should…

Promote/demonstrate

uses of technology.

- Participate in learning

communities

- Continue lif

e-long

learning

- Evaluate/ reflect on current practices

Legal and Ethical Issues

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight David Eisenhower

Teach students-Copywrite law-Fair use guidelines- protection procedures- correct way to handle equipment

So students do not

- plagiarize - contract viruses - use school computers inappropriately - Break equipment

Assistive Technology

Every child must have equal opportunities and equal access, and once that is achieved, maybe we can all rest a little easier. – John Fischer

Identify Analyze

ApplyShare

Communication

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Use technology to interact with…

Peers

Parents

AdministratorsColleagues

Experts

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you want students to use technology in your classroom…

…then you MUST use it yourself!!

Information

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. – William Pollard

Access

Evaluate

Process

Apply

In conclusion…

Technology can be a very useful teaching tool, but it is very important for technology to be used correctly… students learn best from observation so

MODEL what you want your students to do…