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=**Week 4 - Technology Standards**=

A piece of No Child Left Behind that often goes unnoticed is the "Technology Literacy Guarantee" component. The goal is to have all U.S. students technology literate by the eighth grade. The state of Ohio has provided teachers with a book of standards they feel will accomplish this technology literacy we are seeking. It can be downloaded and read at your leisure by [|clicking here]. Upon reading this document, you will find that Ohio has divided technology literacy into the following seven standards: Each of these seven standards is then broken into benchmarks for grade level strands, and scaffolded over the span of a student's K-12 career.
 * 1) ===Nature of Technology===
 * 2) ===Technology and Society Interaction===
 * 3) ===Technology for Productivity Applications===
 * 4) ===Technology and Communication Applications===
 * 5) ===Technology and Information Literacy===
 * 6) ===Design===
 * 7) ===Designed World===

The [|International Society for Technology in Education] (ISTE) has taken the idea of technology literacy and created standards for [|students], [|teachers], and [|administrators]. Their six standards are:
 * 1) ===Creativity and Innovation===
 * 2) ===Communication and Collaboration===
 * 3) ===Research and Information Fluency===
 * 4) ===Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving & Decision-Making===
 * 5) ===Digital Citizenship===
 * 6) ===Technology Operations and Concepts===

For this course, we will primarily focus on the NETS+S (National Educational Technology Standards for Students) 2007 as we would like to examine closely the two frameworks for achieving technology literacy...that of the State of Ohio and ISTE.

[[image:assignment.jpg align="left"]]Assignment
This week, I would like us to examine the two frameworks for achieving student technology literacy. There is a plethora of data that suggests technology is changing the way we do business, communicate, and create (Read the reports: ). As most of you are teachers, I would like you to closely examine the two sets of standards (Ohio's Technology Academic Content Standards and ISTE's NETS+S). Once you have had time to digest them, please contribute to this week's discussion topic titled "Technology Literacy."