Wednesday, September 18, 2013

ISTE Review



After reading the article “National Education Technology Standards (NETS-T) and performance Indicators for Teachers, I have found that the standard I feel stronger in is promoting and modeling digital citizenship and responsibility. This standard explains how teachers have knowledge of the growth of technology and that there are rules, regulations, and standards to follow. It is the teacher’s responsibility to model and promote legal and ethical behaviors by themselves being cautious of how they use technology and sharing that with the students. For example now a day there is Facebook which is a social network that mostly everyone has, so as teachers we should be careful and aware of the things we post and comment on because anybody can see our status. As teachers we should be teaching safe, ethical, respectful technological practices to our students that way they too can be careful to know what it correct to post and what should be just kept to themselves. Most of all we should be teaching responsibility and respect when it comes to using and managing technology.


I think that now as a student I have followed rules, regulations and guidelines when it comes to using technology, not just in school but in my own personal computer at home. I am very cautious as to whom I have as friends, whom I respond to, and how, the language I use, and the pictures I post in my Facebook account. If you were to see my page you will see that I don’t have that many friends and the reason is that there are people I rather just send an email too instead of having them in my Facebook account snooping around in my personal life. I believe there are social networks which you can use to share personal information with people you truly trust and then there are those networks were you just talk with whomever you want to without sharing too much.

I think that as a teacher I will continue to model ethical and moral behavior when it comes to using technology and teaching my students. I will try my best to teach my students about copyrights, referencing, and being careful when searching, because if they don’t know how to use those techniques they can end up in trouble or they might get a bad grade. I believe that for now I have been a good role model and will continue to be especially when I have students overlooking everything I do.



The Verizon Foundation
ISTE partnered with The Verizon Foundation in supporting mobile learning initiatives across the United States.  There are about 24n schools that part of this program called Verizon Innovative Learning Program or VILS for short. The way that ISTE supports this program is by providing services lie program evaluation, needs assessment, and personal development. The VILS program was design primarily to increase effectiveness and use of student success with use of mobile technologies and engagement. Most of the services are provided onsite or online. Below I have attached the link to their web page.





The Maryland Public Television
The Maryland Public Television in partners with ISTE contribute to Mathlanding.org which is a program which there is live online professional learning for teachers and students that apply to the common core state standards through the NETS. Mathlanding.org has tools and resources available to teachers to use to in order to teach math in different ways in order to meet children’s needs. Below I have attached the link to their web page.




Both of these partners with ISTE meet the standards and help promote the use of them as well by providing schools and teachers with the resources necessary to follow the ISTE standards.

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