Technology can help teachers meet all of the NETS standards posted by ISTE. There are 6 standards students are to meet - 1. Creativity & Innovation, 2. Communication and Collaboration, 3. Research and Information Literacy, 4. Critical Thinking, problem solving, & decision making, 5. Digital Citizenship and 6. Technology operations & concepts. If students are communicating, collaborating, and publishing on the internet, it allows them to meet all of 6 NETS standards. For example, having students research a genre found in their library then present this information to the class using a web tool, allows them to meet all the 6 standards. The researching and collaboration with peers phase meeting standards 3, 4, 5, and 6. The presentation portion of the project using a technology tool meets standards 1 and 2 .
The NETS standards can be met in isolation or in a project that encompasses all. A research project that involves using a web 2.0 tool can easily meet standards 2, 3, 4 and 6. I personally find it beneficial to talk about standard 5, digital citizenship, during a project but I also teach it intensively in isolation. Even though students are digital natives it doesn't always mean they know how to be good citizens of the technology world. I spend a great deal of time in all of my Kindergarten - 5th grade classes teaching students about digital citizenship. Their learning is then re-enforced in technology-rich projects. The extra attention to digital citizenship is essential if using a collaboration tool such as Google email, blogging in Kidblog, TodaysMeet, etc.
Meeting standard 1 Creativity and Innovation is something that takes a little more then a research project, I think. This is where PBL has the tendency to shine if utilized in conjunction with a Web 2.0 tool. It is also where students have the opportunity to shine. This standard is really robust and reminds me of the top tiers of the SAMR model. The tools utilized in meeting standard 1 would allow students the ability to be creative and original in their works, such as finding a new way to solve a problem. Speaking of PBL, if a tech tool is used by students during the PBL process, it will probably meet all of the NETS standards. The standards are a great guide when deciding which tool to have students use to assist them in research, collaboration, communication, and publishing.
ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). Retrieved November 30, 2015, from <http://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards/standards-for-students>
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