This was a great article focused on the importance of making sure your technology projects are meeting state standards. I can see how this would help to keep your projects focused on a particular objectives that you are trying to reach. This article also contained examples of a few examples of using technology and meeting the standards.
To me this seems simple enough. If you traditionally had your students write out a paper or keep a reflective journal, you could simply just use blogs or another type of social network and have the students type their answers instead of writing. I see this as a balancing act. You still want to meet your state standards you just want to use technology to do so. Another example would be to have your students use globster instead of creating poster board projects.
I think the concern is not using technoloy, but are the state standards written the way they should be? Do these standards need to be updated? or tweaked? with the inclusion of technology? We need to make sure that the standards are written to meet the goals of today..not yesterday. I found this interesting article on this topic.
www.iteaconnect.org/TAA/LinkedFiles/Articles/.../hook_mayjun01.pdfwww.iteaconnect.org/TAA/LinkedFiles/Articles/.../hook_mayjun01.pdf
I like your questions about the standards. I just passed along a nice blog post about questioning. We should question and why we should never stop! Why It's important to Question It is true. As a great teacher we are taught to place standards in our lessons and we plan them accordingly. Adding technology should not really require much more than making sure you are familiar with what you are teaching and allowing your students to explore that technology some like in a "sandbox" before you actually begin the lesson. It takes a bit longer but it is well worth the time. They may even teach you a thing or two!
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