Essential Standards: Information
and Technology Skills and
Computer/Technology Skills SCOS
Develop awareness and foundations of required
technology standards and competencies.
Technology (Broadly defined)
The study of or a collection of techniques
 A particular technological concept
 The body of tools and other implements
produced by a given society
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Technology in Education
Historically
 Separate entity
 Each new technology was touted as the
“silver-bullet”
 Each touted technology failure caused it
to be viewed with suspicion and relegated
to the closet OR it assumed its proper
role in education
Technology in Education
Current approach
 Advocate integration of technology
 “Information and Technology Skills”
Standards
Historically, technology standards in
education as been treated as “another”
separate entity. The approach in practice
has typically been, here is a field AND ohby-the-way there is that technology thing.
 Structured check-sheet method used to
make sure every objective in a process is
accounted for up from one particular
level to another level.
 What to teach and when… “Guidebook
to instruction”.
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Standards
Accomplishes
 Manageable
 Predictable
 Measurable
 Comprehensive (Checklist)
 Breeds the concept of “accountability”
Standards in Education
Stakeholders
 Administrators (School and LEA level)
 Students
 Parents
 Society
 Teacher
◦ For the measure (assessment) of individual
student level when entering a class so corrective
action can be taken if needed to get them up to
base level
◦ To be used to plan/develop/engage educational
environments and strategies with a knowledge of
what learning outcomes are appropriate and
expected
Computer/Technology Skills Standard
Course of Study (SCOS Model)(Phasing out)
Describes the progressive development of
knowledge and skills in six strands:
Societal and Ethical Issues
 Database
 Spreadsheet Keyboard
 Utilization/Word Processing/Desktop
Publishing
 Multimedia/Presentation
 Telecommunications/Internet
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SCOS Model continued…
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Primary grades focus on the essential skills.
Upper elementary and middle grades build
upon and reinforce skills through application
and use in content area assignments/projects.
Secondary grades focus on application,
refinement, and transfer of knowledge and
skills to be used in content area assignments,
in preparation for work, continued learning,
and personal use.
“The Computer/Technology Skills Standard
Course of Study involves the development
of skills over time. Computer/Technology
Skills proficiency is not an end in itself, but
lays a foundation for lifelong learning.”
ISTE
ISTE (International Society for Technology in
Education) started bridging the gap with
their National Educational Technology
Standards (NETS) with “the purpose of
leveraging the use of technology in K-12
education to enable students to learn
effectively and live productively in an
increasingly digital society”.
ISTE NETS for Students
The current version of NETS for Students
(NETSS) consists of performance
indicators that “indicates and outlines what
the student should be able to achieve within
technological literacy by the completion of a
school year.”
ISTE NETS for Teachers
The current versions of NETS for Teachers
(NETST) include performance indicators
that are designed to “provide teachers with
the effective tools so they are able to
engage their students, improve learning
environments and their own professional
practice as well as provide a positive model
for their school community.”
Essential Standards: Information and
Technology Skills (ACRE Model).
Sources of Information
 Informational Text
 Technology as a Tool
 Research Process
 Safety and Ethical Issues
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SCOS Model
ACRE Model
Societal and Ethical Issues
 Database
 Spreadsheet Keyboard
 Utilization/Word
Processing/Desktop
Publishing
 Multimedia/Presentation
 Telecommunications/
Internet
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Sources of Information
 Informational Text
 Technology as a Tool
 Research Process
 Safety and Ethical Issues
Comparison
Strands vs. Essential Standards
SCOS Model
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ACRE Model
Essential skills
Build upon and reinforce
skills through application
and use
Application, refinement, and
transfer of knowledge and
skills to be used in content
area assignments, in
preparation for work,
continued learning, and
personal use.
Sources of Information
 Informational Text
 Technology as a Tool
 Research Process
 Safety and Ethical Issues
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Comparison
…that revolution in education
Opportunity for a learner to learn
 Engagement
 Content delivery
 Infrastructure
 Extended classroom both in time and space
 So the “goal is to teach the knowledge and
techniques to develop technological literacy”
 “Technological literacy is the ability to
understand and evaluate technology.”
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What do I want you to do?
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Computer/Technology Skills: Standard Course of Study and Grade Level
Competencies K-12 (SCOS Model)
◦ Read pages 8-11
◦ Pick your expected grade level
◦ Read the grade before, the grade, and the following grade competency goals
and objectives
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Essential Standards: Information and Technology Skills (ACRE Model)
◦ Pick your expected grade level
◦ Read the grade before, the grade, and the following grade essential standards
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North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards
ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•S)
ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS•T)
Read the above documents and participate in an online forum discussion
Standards forum in Moodle.