NETS-T and NETS-S

When looking at at the ISTE's site and looking at the National Educational Technology Standards for teachers and students, on could clearly see how both are related. They have the standards that each students should know by time they leave school, and they then have standards of things that teachers need to be implementing in their classrooms to get their students to practice the 21st century skills they will need when they enter the real world. The teacher standards are the guidelines for what each teacher should use to engage their students. What is mapped out for them is plan for them to look at when developing lessons and assessing student learning. The students guidelines go hand in hand with this. Teachers could look at the student guidelines and see if their students can master these standards, and if not, the teacher needs to make accommodations to lessons to help their students improve in these area. Students can also use their guidelines as a assessment tool to grade their performance in these areas, and to see what areas they need improvement in. If I were to use the GAME plan process, I would use it very similar to the way it was used in our course. I would have my students look at the National Educational Technology Standards for students, and I would have them select two indicators that they felt they needed to make improvements in. I would have to tally up the results to see what areas I need to focus more on in my classroom, and then I would have my students follow the GAME plan to come up with their own plan to meet these indicators. We would start out by writing goals, and try to come up with ways to accomplish these goals, and then at the end of the semester, we would re-evaluate our GAME plan, and try to make the adjustments as needed to reach our goals, much like we have been doing in this class. Students could then get an idea of the technology standards that they need to master, and they could get some practice with coming up with a GAME plan. I feel that my students could benefit a lot from coming up with some goals and tracking these goals to see if they accomplished what they set out to.