I think it is important to include the various technology
standards and guidelines. Consulting multiple standards/ guidelines while
planning every single lesson is completely impractical. I think that if a
teacher has a general knowledge of the standards they can keep them in mind
while planning. Then they can go look up something specific if need be. A lot
of lesson planning to include technology is just best practices of a teacher
with a 21st century mindset. So as long as we keep technology in the
forefront of our minds and not on the back burner, we don’t need to be super
concerned with looking up every single standard.
Determining the importance of strategies/ standards/ guidelines
depends entirely on the teacher. Many of the standards align well, so which
ever set of guidelines you find the most simple to work with is the one you
should use.
The easiest way I think to incorporate as many standards as
possible would be to create a large matrix comparing all of the guidelines.
Unfortunately this is a time consuming process that I don’t think any teacher
would take upon themselves. Having one institution or the districts create such
a matrix for distribution to schools would be very beneficial and make the
information available to many more teachers than it was before. Teachers do
have a lot on their minds with having to follow state standards, district and
building requirements, and state testing.
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