Technology Literacy
Two national collaborative efforts worked to define the term, Technology
Literacy.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association
SETDA represents the 50 state educational
technology directors throughout the country.
Technology literacy is the ability to responsibly use appropriate technology
to communicate, solve problems, and access, manage, integrate, evaluate,
and create information to improve learning in all subject areas and to acquire
lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st century.
Information Communications Technology Literacy
ICT Literacy is using digital
technology, communications tools, and/or networks to access, manage, integrate,
evaluate and create information in order to function in a knowledge society
Access: Knowing about and how to retrieve information
Manage: Applying an existing organizational scheme
Integrate: Interpreting and representing information, summarizing, comparing
and contrasting information
Evaluate: Judging the quality, relevance, usefulness or efficiency of
information
Create: Adapting, applying, designing, inventing, or authoring information
Resources for Measuring Technology Literacy
Standards
ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
http://cnets.iste.org/
The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in
PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of
technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States. The
NETS Project will work to define standards for students, integrating curriculum
technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and
evaluation of technology use.
Online Surveys
Profiler Pro
http://profilerpro.com
ProfilerPro allows for the evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and skill
based on simple surveys implemented via the World Wide Web. Inspired by
the widely popular collaboration tool - Profiler, ProfilerPro maintains
the ability for members of a group to share knowledge and promote collaboration
based on responses to skills-based survey items. There are surveys available
in ProfilerPro for the ISTE NETS standards.
Preparing Students for the 21st Century
http://21stcenturyskills.org/
This national partnership distributes their recent report Learning
for the 21st Century (
PDF) that articulates a collective vision for learning in the 21st
century and learn how you can create a framework for action with our accompanying
MILE
Guide (
PDF) and NEW
Mile Guide Online Assessment.
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