Friday, December 11, 2009

1- Whose job is it to teach the NETs and AASL standards to students?






















So whose job is it to teach the NETs and AASL Standards? We must first become more familiar with each of these 21st Century Standards. Upon examining both it is easy to see that NETS has a slant towards including technology skills while the AASL is based more on general and traditional learning skills such as Blooms Taxonomy. Many of these skills in both documents will be are hit upon throughout a child's educational journey from K-12 and beyond. So the simple answer to the question is that it is the job for everyone to teach these standards to students. If we concentrate on the technology aspect, we must remember that education starts at home. Parents must inform their children about the importance of safety when online and using other technology tools such as cell phones. It is also every educator's job (including teacher, librarians, administrators and counselors) to teach the NETS standards since students will use various technology applications and require "just in time" instruction. A key player also includes the technology instructors whose job it is to assist both teachers and students to find the right tool (application) for the job.

Image attributions: http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/AASL_LearningStandards.pdf

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