Thursday, May 17, 2007
hello and welcome to the technology standards blog spot
We are using a blog to help facilitate discussion about the new educational technology standards for South Dakota. We would love to hear your input.
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When Will the standards be out to public comment?
We are hoping to have them out by May 22, 2007
The k-12 educational technology standards are now available to make open comment on.
Overall I applaud the efforts of the committee to tackle such an arduous task. That having been said I have two minor issues to bring to your attention. Possibly both of these have been addressed in a manner that I am not observing and, if so, you may use these comments in the spirit intended.
First, in strand #2 - Social Interactions in Information and Communication Technology within the content of the Rationale the final statement reads " For that reason citizens need to develop skills on how to select technologies". In my estimation neither Indicator 1 or 2 links an evaluative component to that statement. Recognition and investigation are fine but I believe that to actually select there needs to be a higher level of action.
Second, in strand #5 - Information Literacy, the Rationale indicates a sequence of 5 steps, the last of which is evaluate. In Indicator 1 the students are to locate and acquire and in Indicator 2 they are to determine reliability and relevancy. Again, I would link the evaluative component to an indicator since validity and generalizability are also important components to consider for end-users of technology.
In examining the further pages of the documents I recognize that many of those higher-order thinking skills are addressed but I would feel more comfortable with those issues I addressed previously being listed up front.
Thanks again for your efforts and we'll see what the final draft states.
The standards have now been approved by the South Dakota Board of Education for implementation. We are hoping that this blog will provide an avenue for educators to ask questiosn, collaborate, and share information regarding the standards.
There will be a session at the SDSTE Professional Development Conference in Madison on October 26 to present information on the Technology Standards.
SDSTE is sponsoring a Distance effort to bring the standards to the public arena. Information should be available at http://sdste.k12.sd.us. Presenters will be Peg Henson, Martin Sieverding, Shane Steckelberg and Deb Fredrickson.
Do the ed tech standards incorporate 21st century skills?
Yes, they do incoporate 21st Century Skills. If you want to learn more about 21st century skills visit this website: www.21stcenturysills.org
Thank you for your efforts in creating state level educational technology standards, benchmarks and essential learnings. Thank you also for sharing them with us in St. Vrain and Aurora in Colorado. We look forward to taking your good work and utilizing it in our efforts. In Colorado the districts have been directed to come up with their own definition, standards and assessment methodology with guidlines from the state as to definition, modification of the ISTE standards, and what types of assessments are acceptable and not acceptable. Your work will help us tremendously.
Faulkton great inputs. You guys are doing a wonderful job of putting it all together with quality.
I plan to access this blog and your wiki to stay on top of what is happening in SD. We came to the SD TIE Conference to find out about the student media fair and gained so much more. But I knew that we would.
Thank you for the presentation today. It certainly clarified tech issues concerning the tech standard.
Well written article.
This blog is a great idea! I think the other subject areas could use it as well!
The results of the first tech assessment are in. Now there will be benchmark data in the outlying years to work with. One concern that I have is that the 8th grade students on the Hutterite Colony were asked to take a paper/pencil assessment of technology. It is interesting to note that most, but not all, Hutterite Colony schools do not allow technology (radio, tv, cd/dvd, computers) as a matter of belief and practice. What, if any, validity there would be to assessing skills for students who do not have tech access is negligible. I would think that by administrative rule these students could be exempted from the exam. The number of Colony attendance center 8th graders in a given year is so small that their non-participation would not rise to an error of measurement that would invalidate the results of a state-wide assessment.
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