Technology+Standards

=**Who Need Standards?**=

How do we ensure that learners throughout our region have equitable access to learning opportunities that ensure digital fluency?

How do we identify standards and expectations in preparing learners for a constantly changing future?

How do we anticipate the future and what learners will need to be strategic, innovative and ethical producers, consumers and managers of information, communications, media, and processes within evolving digital landscapes?

The Saskatchewan Ministry of Education is preparing a Framework for Digital Fluency that is intended to provide common guidelines for supporting learning in our digital age. The draft document outlines expectations for Teaching and Learning, Administrative Operations and Technological Infrastructure. The following is an excerpt from the interim Edition released in March, 2012.

=EXPECTATIONS=

Teaching and Learning
Saskatchewan’s educational system will foster the comprehensive and systematic development of knowledge, skills, dispositions, and judgements essential for digital fluency in educators and students. The ministry and school divisions will work together to improve the digital fluency of all educators and students; that is, the development of strategic, innovative, and ethical producers, consumers, and managers of information, communications, media, and processes within evolving digital landscapes. Educators will develop the expertise required to effectively use appropriate technologies to assist students in achieving curricular outcomes. Curricula require that students grasp fundamental disciplinary constructs, create knowledge and insight, gather and process information, generate ideas, make conceptual connections, think and work like subject area experts, and represent and share their understandings.

Administrative Operations
The ministry and school divisions will work together to ensure that data collection as required to inform planning and accountability is both efficient and effective. School divisions have developed and implemented appropriate practices and procedures for using and maintaining tools and managing information.

Technological Infrastructure
The Ministry of Education will ensure that a secure and reliable province-wide learning network, supported by provincial technology standards and solutions, is available to all schools. The ministry and school divisions will work together to ensure that facilities are built or renovated with consideration for current and future technology needs. "

International Society for Technology in Education --Standards

"ISTE's NETS for Students (NETS•S) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world." For a detailed set of standards, go to the ISTES web site. NETS Implementation Wiki
 * Digital Age Learning**

ISTE's NETS for Teachers (NETS•T) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work, and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society.
 * Digital Age Teaching**

ISTE's NETS for Administrators(NETS•A) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge school administrators and leaders need to support digital age learning, implement technology, and transform the education landscape.
 * Digital Age Leadership**