reflection+-+nets

In looking over the NETS standards for students, the most important concepts are creativity, diversity, and individuality. That really goes totally against the concept of testing accountability and shifts directly into the concept of product accountability. These standards require that students be able to navigate, investigate and assess information tools and then be able to communicate their findings in a way that produces meaning to themselves and others. If Jonassen had been asked to write the standards, I think they would have looked very similar as he promotes the same ideas in his criteria for Mindtools. The vision that these standards produce is a classroom of students engaged in their learning, producing creative products to showcase that learning and communicating that knowledge to the other students and the community. I am going to work very hard to make that vision a reality in my classroom. These are the ideas that are enveloped in the teacher standards and the technology standards. It means I need to be up to date in the products that are available and provide my students with the opportunities to explore their own interests to the best of my ability. If the teachers and administrators are on the same page, students will be provided with an incredibly rich environment of learning and will be more prepared to become active participants in a global world.

Myrna Robinson