Teachers experience conflicts between meeting academic standards, accommodating different learning styles, and creating innovative lessons. Standards like the Common Core were created to ensure consistency and prepare students for college and careers. The No Child Left Behind Act required standardized testing, adequate yearly progress, and highly qualified teachers. While intended to improve outcomes, it pushed a greater focus on standardized tests. Administrators and parents expect technology use in classrooms, but teachers must integrate it in a way that helps students meet state standards.

1. SOURCES OF CONFLICT
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2. Teachers experience…
• A need to assure that students are learning to the expectation
(in other words, the academic standards)
o Indiana Academic Standards vs. Common Core State Standards
o How to search or read standards?
o Push from the top: NCLB / RTTT
• A need to accommodate the changing learning styles of the
digital natives
o Digital Natives (Mark Prensky, 2001)
o Millennials (Self-Test: How Millennial Are You?)
• A need to create innovative learning experiences—often
discussed in association with technology. Why?
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3. Let’s look at some details…
(Things you may want to know, even remember…)
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4. ACADEMIC STANDARDS
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5. WHY COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS?
• Preparation: the standards prepare students to be college-
and career- ready upon completion of high school.
• Competition: the standards are internationally
benchmarked to help ensure our students are globally
competitive.
• Equity: Expectations are consistent for all – and not
dependent on a student’s zip code.
• Clarity: the standards are focused, coherent, and clear.
Clearer standards help student (and parents and teachers)
understand what is expected of them.
• Collaboration: the standards permit unprecedented
opportunities for collaboration across states and districts.
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7. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND (NCLB)
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8. KEY ELEMENTS OF NCLB
• States must develop their own accountability systems
(largely standardized tests).
• Schools must make “adequate yearly progress” in
standardized test scores. (Those that don’t are put on a
published list of “failing schools,” and parents can
transfer their students to another school.)
• All teachers must be “highly qualified” (by 2005).
• Schools must use “scientifically based” practices and
methods.
• Students must be “technology-literate” by eighth grade.
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9. NCLB & ACADEMIC STANDARDS
• Main reasons for academic standards …
• To make sure students are learning what they’re supposed
to learn at a particular level
• To clearly measure student outcomes
o “The standards-based education reform, setting high
standards and establishing measurable goals will improve
students’ outcomes”
o “Whatever each state decides students will learn, each
school must prove that students are learning it.”
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10. OBAMA AND NCLB
• The greater push is to hold schools accountable for
student test scores
o Assessing student performance
• Indiana granted NCLB Waiver (May 2012)
• What does this mean for Indiana?
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12. TECHNOLOGY IN
STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION
• Administrators, parents and students have
expectations about technology use in the classroom
• Your students need to meet state standards
• It is important for you to know how to integrate
technology into your classroom based on the
standards
• This is what w200 is all about!
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13. SOLUTIONS…
• But what about individualized learning and
customized learning? How can you meet the
standards and your students’ needs?
• Webquests are one solution.
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