EDLD+5370+ISTE+Standard+III



Week 2 Assignment 2.5 Alberto Guia – ET8008 ISTE Standard III, Teaching, Learning, and the Curriculum are the one standard that I feel that both the educator is lacking and some students are ahead of the game. In most school, the students are far supporter in regards to modern technology such as IPhones, IPads, wiki’s, blogs, glogs, etc. The students of the 21st Century are social networking gods and they rule their domain with absolute. Educators are lagging and the gap between “Digital Natives” is widening with each new day and each new emerging technology. Today’s students live in a digital world, they wake up to it and fall asleep working and live in it with such online classrooms such as 2nd Life. Being able to compete with 21st Century learners requires a highly skilled and eager to learn educator. We are in the midst of playing catch up and the gap is only widening. Today’s core classroom curriculum is covered with technology but as with the case with many schools, the average urban classroom teacher is lacking the necessary tools to incorporate them into their lessons. This is where the technology leader for a campus or district is empowered to step up and request that resources be funneled to the classroom, giving the students and teachers the tools needed to teach, learn, and inspire one another.