4.tech.discussion.four

__**Tech.Discussion.Four**__
**What are your thoughts on the NETS Standards:** The NETS Standards are a great method to ensure that students are learning/exploring the needed digital skills for life, since we are living in a digital age. Also, they are a great way to incorporate skills tested on FCAT.

**Questions to consider...** Most students have technology at home, however, some do not. Because of this, teachers have to ensure that students have enough time at school, on top of academic time, to practice these skills. For example: When projects are assigned as a class grade, students without technology at home need equal time at school to complete their project.

**Things that we are already doing...** Students love using technology! In the Language Arts and Reading classes at Bonifay Middle School students use Movie Maker or Powerpoint to create Book Trailers as an assessment tool. We use Interwrite pads and CPS as teaching tools and as a way for students to respond.

**Things we would like to do...** I would like to use a Wiki this year as a site that parents and students can use to get current class information.

**Barriers that would prevent us from doing things...**
 * 1) Schools not having enough funds
 * 2) Students not having technology/computers at home

**1. Creativity and Innovation:**

**2. Communication and Collaboration:**

**3. Research and Information Fluency**

**4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making**

**5. Digital Citizenship**

**6. Technology Operations and Concepts**