Technology Standards Infographic

1. Technology Standards
Infographic
Shaniqua Adams
CUR 545
March 27th, 2022

2. Pennsylvania's state's educational technology
academic standards
•Pennsylvania's technology standards are
separated into the three categories
below:
•Introduction
•Knowledge and Skills
•General Requirements

3. Introduction
Introduction is made up of different concepts such as: All of the technology
applications and curriculum have six strands that are based on the National Educational
Technology Standards for students and their performance indicators that are based on
the ISTE.
• The six strands are:
• Creativity and innovation
• Communication and collaboration
• Research and information fluency
• Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making
• Digital citizenship
• Technology operations and concepts.

4. General Requirements
General Requirements are filled with different concepts:
• Some school districts have the ability to be flexible and
offers technology applications in a variety of different
settings.
• Districts in PA are encouraged to offer technology
applications in almost all content areas. Specific
content are typically offered in specific classes while
still being integrated in all of the content areas.

5. Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge and Skills is made up of the following
concepts:
• Innovation and Creativity
• Research and information fluency.
• Communication and collaboration.
• Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making.
• Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making.
• Research and information fluency.
• Technology operations and concepts.
• Digital citizenship.

6. ISTE Standards
ISTE Standards for Students
• ISTE Standards for Students are broken into the following categories:
• Creativity and Innovation
• Technology Operations and Concepts
• Research and Information Fluency
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Communications and Collaboration
• Digital Citizenship

7. ISTE Category Concepts
• Creativity and Innovation
-This concept is made up of students using their creative thinking innovative skills to create knowledge
and develop their own digital products.
• Communications and Collaboration
-In order to communicate and collaborate students must locally and globally use digital tools and
different resources in order to promote and reinforce learning.
• Information Fluency & Research
-This group of students evaluates digital content by using different concepts listed below:
-Using research skills to form knowledge based on different topics, assignments and task.
-Students must evaluate the usefulness of different digital content
-Use different search strategies to search for information.

8. Continued …
ISTE Category Concepts
• Problem Solving & Decision Making
-This group of students are able to apply their own critical thinking skills to guide
research, evaluate projects and solve problems using different resources and digital
tools.
• Digital Citizenship
-This group of students are able to practice responsible, legal, ethical behavior and
practices safe ways to use resources and digital tools.
• Technology Operations & Concepts
-This group of students demonstrates the appropriate and has great knowledge on
different systems, operations and technology systems.

9. Similarities between PA Standards and
ISTE
• Both the Pennsylvania Academic Standards and the ISTE Standards
include different similar concepts on the importance of understanding and
using different technology tools to promote advance learning.
• Both standards understand the importance of responsible technology use.
• Both sets of standards make it known that the inquiry and observation
stage is imperative for the learning of technology.
• Collaborations and Communication are emphasized in both sets of
standards.

10. References:
• Thomas, L. G., & Knezek, D. G. (2008). Information, communications,
and educational technology standards for students, teachers, and school
leaders. In International handbook of information technology in primary
and secondary education (pp. 333-348). Springer, Boston, MA.
• Ayad, F. I., & Ajrami, S. J. (2017). The Degree of Implementing ISTE
Standards in Technical Education Colleges of Palestine. Turkish Online
Journal of Educational Technology-TOJET, 16(2), 107-118.
• Ropp, M., & Brown, J. (2000). Beyond applications to the essential
processes of technology integration: Designing an educational
technology course to reflect ISTE standards and to model best practices
for the future. In Society for Information Technology & Teacher
Education International Conference (pp. 335-338). Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

11. Differences between PA standards and
ISTE
• PA Standards focus most of its attention on technology and the achievements
of the students. Pa standards is based off the affects that technology has on
the students.
• ISTE Standards mainly focuses on the students being able to
take ownership over their own learning while using technology
for their best advantage
• ISTE Standards is based on imagination and creativity while
Pennsylvania standards is made up of tangible outcomes like
being ale to actually fix the issue when their is a problem.

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