Reflection of Education Technology Standards

Technology is becoming a bigger and bigger part of our everyday life. The question is why then is technology not more prevalent in our schools today. All of that is about to change. President Obama in March released a campaign for a National Education Technology Plan. This plan states that every child by the time they graduate high school will be technology literate.

What does it mean to be Technology Literate? Well the state of Oregon has come up with a few guidelines that answer this question. To be technology literate students will have to demonstrate creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking and problem solving, digital citizenship, and technology operations and concepts. This seems like a huge task for teachers to incorporate into a lesson plan. On the contrary, with a little bit of imagination and effort implementation is possible.

The six Oregon Education Technology Standards are trying to convey a clear and precise explanation of what technology literacy is. They are also guidelines to what a student will need to know to be well rounded in the field of technology. When a student has met all the Oregon Education Technology Standards they will have the tools to live, learn, and work in our society successfully.

How I plan to apply the Oregon Education of Technology Standards is simple. I will focus on one or two specific standards at a time. To teach communication and collaboration along with creativity and innovation in my classroom I would set up a guest speaker on skype. This will give my students the opportunity to see an online application is use. We will then go into depth on the application and explore to see all its capabilities. Another example of these standards being implemented in the class is using screenr. Screer is an online application that will allow the students to make a short video about what we are learning in class. This video can then be shown to the class in a jigsaw style lesson. For these students to create this screenr they will need to research the information on goggle which would cover research and information fluency. As you can see with a little imagination and a computer you can give students the opportunity to become technology literate.