Homework 2-4-10

National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T), and What I Think-

As a future teacher, I hope to be able to help my students learn the materials they will need to succeed both in the new age technology and in the textbooks that they read. By using the standards listed in NETS-T, and what I have acquired from my Technology in Education -300 class(TIE300), I hope to be an effective teacher.

I feel that the first standard, Facilitate and Inspire Students Learning and Creativity, can be paired up nicely with using PowerPoint. The idea behind the standard is that students are given the support to be creative in their own thinking about whatever topic they are learning about. The teacher should be able to collaborate the material into a technology to further the learning of the student. She should also give the student leeway to explore their free thinking. I feel that PowerPoint is a structured program that will allow the students to perform an assignment while harboring the freedom to choose how it is presented.

The third standard ,Model Digital-Age Work and Learning, would pair nicely with the use of a word processor. The idea is to relay the information to the students in a way that is using technology. This is to also prepare the students for the world in which they are entering into. Learning to use the keyboard on a computer and being able to make a world document is almost standard for any job these days. The students should learn the capabilities to produce a well though-out out document that they can print off the computer. By using the different tools in the word processor, they will be able to manipulate whatever is on the page to make it their own creative work. I feel that it is important they they learn how to do so to learn how to communicate in a word document.

The fourth standard, Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility, is to teach students to own what they have produced. The standard mentions that they students should learn a safe and legal form of their work. They should also learn to understand and be aware of their surroundings when they produce an assignment. For example, using a blog will create a sense of ownership and give the child a tool to let others know what they are thinking. It also should act as a tool to help promote responsibility for the child. They are the writers in a blog and are held accountable for what they post. I think that this is great for students to learn at a young age. This may also help them understand in the future that they must always use their own words (unless cited) and not to plagiarize.

I think that NETS-T and what I have been learning in TIE300 will help me be an effective and resourceful teacher. Technology is so important in school and in the outside world today. Students should learn from an early age how to use such systems to further their educational requirements as well as 'cultural norms' -needs.