Technology+Standards

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This page has resources for ISTE Standards for Teachers and Students, 21st Century Literacies, and the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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=ISTE Standards for Teachers (2008)=

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
=ISTE Standards for Students (2016)=

=[|ISTE Standards for Students] (2007)=

**6. Technology Operations and Concepts**
==== features classroom scenarios from Vermont educators linked to NETS for Students.====

= 21st Century Literacies and Skills =

[|Framework for 21st Century Skills] from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

[|Digital Literacy.gov] is a federal interagency information portal for those who are providing digital literacy training and services in local communities.

[|21st Century Information Literacy Standards for the Digital Learners of New York], from the New York Library Association.

[|OECD Skills Outlook 2013] reports that adults in Japan, Canada, Australia, Finland and many other countries scored higher on a global assessment of math, reading and problem-solving.
 * **See first chapter of the report, [|The Skills Needed for the 21st Century]**
 * In the report, the OECD organization notes:
 * ** Demand for high-level skills has never been greater. In the workplace, routine tasks being automated, destroying jobs that were once middle-class bulwarks. Increasingly, economies demand workers skilled in problem-solving, communications and collaboration and reward those with the ability to recognise and exploit new technologies. **
 * In the words of OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, “Skills have become the global currency of 21st Century economies. They transform lives and drive economies.”

** [|The Definition of 21st Century Literacies]from the National Council of Teachers of English (2008). **

 * See also the following statements about 21st century literacies**
 * **[|Deeper Learning: Defining Twenty-First Century Literacy] from Edutopia, January 2013.**
 * **[|Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy in the 21st Century] from Educause, January 2006.**
 * **[|21st Century Literacy: Evolving Forms] from National Education Association (includes a video from Project New Media Literacies).**
 * **[|Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies]from the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, 2013.**
 * **[|New Literacies and 21st Century Technologies] from International Reading Association, 2009.**

**Common Core State Standards**

 * [|Common Core State Standards website]**

[|Common Core Standards Explorer]


 * Important Educational Technology Organizations in the United States **

[|International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)]

[|Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE)]

[|New Mexico Society for Technology in Education]