8th Grade Technology
Literacy
NCLB guidelines
Technology Literacy
•
The portion of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act known as 'Enhancing
Education Through Technology Act of 2001' (E2T2) has a goal:
• The primary goal of the Ed-Tech program is to
improve student academic achievement through the
use of technology in schools. It is also designed to
assist students in crossing the digital divide by
ensuring that every student is technologically
literate by the end of eighth grade, and to encourage
the effective integration of technology with teacher
training and curriculum development to establish
successful research-based instructional methods.
- http://www.ed.gov/programs/edtech/index.html
The Iowa Department of Education considers this a local control issue
to be defined in your CSIP
How Some Define Literacy
• The Technology Literacy Assessment Work
Group of the State Educational Technology
Directors Association (SETDA) has suggested
this definition:
“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”
3 STEPS
There are three responsibilities of each school in order
to meet NCLB and state of Iowa DE requirements:
1. Develop a definition of technology literacy
for a student completing 8th grade
2. Determine the criteria, standards,
curriculum, etc. that prepares students to
be technologically literate
3. Assess and document the technology
literacy proficiency level of all 8th grade
students at the completion of each school
year
Information Gathering
This documentation will be reviewed on
Iowa Department of Education site
visits.
• Each Year, the district should report
the percentage of technologically
literate 8th grade students it has on
the BEDS report.
The BEDS report collects data on
8th grade technology literacy
Methods of Assessment:
• Observation (Written documentation of
observation)
• Checklist (Written list of skills defined)
• Portfolio (Work that demonstrates literacy)
• Written Test (Paper or Online questions)
• Technology Class (Completion as evidence of
literacy)
• Other
-These are the methods a district can select from
under NCLB to determine “Technology Literacy”
DOCUMENTATION:
• The school must be able to document the
technology literacy proficiency level of all eighth
grade students at the completion of each school
year.
• The following table provides some options for
technology literacy assessments. These
assessment strategies can be used with each
standard individually, or clustered where it is
appropriate. They can be done in content areas
or they can be done as a stand-alone effort.
Table of Assessment Options
-source: http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/technology/techliteracy.html
Align with National Standards?
• Standards (aligned with ISTE’s standards)
1. Basic operations and concepts
2. Social, ethical, and human issues
3. Productivity tools
4. Communication tools
5. Research tools
6. Problem-solving and decision-making
tools
What are other states doing?
• www.techplan.org –review Michigan’s
Educational Technology Standards
• http://techplan.edzone.net/ci2005/ Workshop to create technology lessons