1. Technology Standards For Teachers By: Karen Wittkamper

2. Venn Diagram of Standards Maryland Standards -Communication -Understanding assistive technology -Information access, evaluation, processing and application. National Standards -Learning and Creativity Overlap -Professional Growth -Legal/Social/Ethical Issues -Integrating/modeling technology in the classroom -Assessments

3. Facilitate and Inspire Student Creativity The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas- Linus Pauling Innovative thinking and inventiveness Promote Support Model

4. Professional Growth The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Mortimer J. Adler As teachers we should… Promote/demonstrate uses of technology. -Participate in learning communities -Continue life-long learning -Evaluate/ reflect on current practices

5. Legal and Ethical Issues A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight David Eisenhower Teach students -Copywrite law -Fair use guidelines - protection procedures - correct way to handle equipment So students do not - plagiarize - contract viruses - use school computers inappropriately - Break equipment

6. Assistive Technology Every child must have equal opportunities and equal access, and once that is achieved, maybe we can all rest a little easier. – John Fischer

7. Communication The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw Use technology to interact with… Peers Parents Administrators Colleagues Experts

8. Integrating Technology in the Classroom Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you want students to use technology in your classroom… …then you MUST use it yourself!!

9. Information Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit. – William Pollard AccessEvaluateProcessApply

10. In conclusion… Technology can be a very useful teaching tool, but it is very important for technology to be used correctly… students learn best from observation so MODEL what you want your students to do…