TOPIC ONE: ISTE
Knowing this, it is then important to discuss ISTE (The International Society for Technology in Education). It is a membership association that was brought together with the purpose of enhancing student education with the use of technology alongside teacher/administrator effectiveness. Within this membership, a set of standards was made for each grouping, which has come to be known as the NETS. They have been used since 1998 and helps demonstrate how technology should be used in the classroom. Below are images of what these standards are for administrators, students, and teachers, respectively.
Overall, it is essentially acknowledging the modern style we are currently living in, and applying it to our classrooms to ensure our students are gaining the most from their educational experience.
1. Nature of Technology
2. Technology and Society Interaction
3. Technology for Productivity Applications
4. Technology and Communication Applications
5. Technology and Information Literacy
6. Design
7. Designed World
For now, I could make great use of all of these standards by understanding that technology is now a large force in the world, and can serve as many purposes. Several things can be executed with it's use, and these standards help to outline all of the different aspects and uses of technology in education.
To help administrators and educators receive proper technology in classrooms, Ohio eTech provides them with different sources to obtain funding and grants. Sources of money/grants from ETech for Ohio Teachers includes (but not limited to) the Quality Matters Competitive Grant, Supporting Transformation Efforts Competitive Grant, Blended Learning Grant, Mobile Assistive Technologies Grant, Multimedia Production Grant, and Telecommunications Services Operating Grant.
- a preamble
- a definition section
- a policy statement
- an acceptable uses section
- an unacceptable uses section, and
- a violations/sanctions section
- Don't share your password with anyone
- Don't respond to threatening messages
- Don't give out so much of your daily happenings and whereabouts
- Never put in an email message, Facebook post, chat message, etc... anything that you would not want on a postcard. You never know who can have access to your information and exchanges.
- Take a break from being online every hour
- Concentrate on tool use rather than the tools themselves (for example, Twitter).
- Online technologies are often not the best way to communicate sensitive or personal information. Face-to-face communications, handwritten notes or letters, and the phone are as good and often better in many situations
- Take great care in what you reveal about yourself on social network sites like Facebook and in online communication. Use privacy settings wherever possible, but be aware that rules for privacy settings often change. Double-check your privacy settings by looking yourself up without being logged in. Google yourself from time to time, or use a service like pipl.com
- Don’t unwittingly (or wittingly!) give out so much information about yourself that a stranger (or a “friend”) can put your day together through your words and links. It’s generally not a good idea to accept friend invitations from people you don’t know in real life.
There are several others listed on the website, this is just a good handful. Another good website for this topic is http://www.sc.edu/bck2skol/fall/lesson11.html
distribution. For something to be eligible for a copyright, it must be inherently creative.
Fair Use, as defined by www.isafe.org is a doctrine that allows the use of copyrighted works for criticism and commentary, parody, news reporting, research and scholarship, and classroom instruction. Fair use requirements include: purpose of the
intended use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole, and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The following diagram is good to break down the ideas of Copyright law and Fair Use.