National Educational Technology Standards
http://www.iste.org/standards
National Education Technology Standards: NETS for Teachers. 1. Facilitate and Inspire Learning and Creativity.
b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.
What skills and competencies does this standard require?
I just need a little push in the right direction on the skills and competencies that are required for this standard PLEASE HELP ME? I need to create a analysis of these skills.
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This site is where I got the standards per my teacher but it does not inform me of how to implement the skills and competencies
That's not what your original question asked. Implementation of teaching these skills and competencies should be up to the teacher. Read some of the other articles your browser will bring up on the topic.
My opinions:
exploring real-world issues -- Students would need to become really competent in using Bing and Google, including scholar.google.com, as well as other means of researching, including the huge databases that college and local libraries subscribe to these days. You would need to give assignments that requires this type of high-level researching. I'll add to the bottom of this message one of the "how to search" lessons I've used with students before.
and solving authentic problems -- You'd need to include in your assignments problems or issues that can be researched and for which students need to provide solutions, backed up by their research.
using digital tools and resources -- What tools do students have? Computers? Samsung tablets or iPads? Have you arranged for a research librarian to give a how-to-research lesson, using the library's databases.
If you don't know what I mean by the huge databases, let me know.
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A LESSON I'VE GIVEN TO STUDENTS:
You may have to search and research, but once you learn some good sources and methods, you should have success. In addition to searching on the Internet, you also need to make best friends with the reference librarian(s) in your local or college library. Libraries these days subscribe to enormous research databases, and they are often usually more useful than Internet searches. Ask your librarian if you have access to EBSCOHost -- it has several databases within it, including a huge one for academic research, at least three for health sciences, one for military and government, and others.
For Internet searching:
http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/
At this webpage, you can go immediately to the search sites (first three columns across the top) -- or even better you can scroll down until you see the section called HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET. Those are the links to start with. You'll not only learn how to come up with good search terms, but also how to evaluate the webpages you get as results. Some will be good and others will be garbage. You need to know how to tell the difference.
My favorite way to search is to use Google's advanced search page http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en and put my search words or phrases into the first or second search box (either "all the words" or "exact phrase"). Another is to start out at http://scholar.google.com. However, there many other strategies for searching you can use, and the HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET section will help you best.
Learning to use Google or other search engines can save you time and help you learn to find information efficiently. Here are some websites that can teach you how:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/searchtips.html
http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html
http://websearch.about.com/mbody.htm?once=true&COB=home&PM=112_100_T
... and one to help you judge whether a particular website's information is worth your time:
http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/evaluate.html
exploring real-world issues -- Students would need to become really competent in using Bing and Google, including scholar.google.com, as well as other means of researching, including the huge databases that college and local libraries subscribe to these days. You would need to give assignments that requires this type of high-level researching. I'll add to the bottom of this message one of the "how to search" lessons I've used with students before.
and solving authentic problems -- You'd need to include in your assignments problems or issues that can be researched and for which students need to provide solutions, backed up by their research.
using digital tools and resources -- What tools do students have? Computers? Samsung tablets or iPads? Have you arranged for a research librarian to give a how-to-research lesson, using the library's databases.
If you don't know what I mean by the huge databases, let me know.
-----------------
A LESSON I'VE GIVEN TO STUDENTS:
You may have to search and research, but once you learn some good sources and methods, you should have success. In addition to searching on the Internet, you also need to make best friends with the reference librarian(s) in your local or college library. Libraries these days subscribe to enormous research databases, and they are often usually more useful than Internet searches. Ask your librarian if you have access to EBSCOHost -- it has several databases within it, including a huge one for academic research, at least three for health sciences, one for military and government, and others.
For Internet searching:
http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/
At this webpage, you can go immediately to the search sites (first three columns across the top) -- or even better you can scroll down until you see the section called HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET. Those are the links to start with. You'll not only learn how to come up with good search terms, but also how to evaluate the webpages you get as results. Some will be good and others will be garbage. You need to know how to tell the difference.
My favorite way to search is to use Google's advanced search page http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en and put my search words or phrases into the first or second search box (either "all the words" or "exact phrase"). Another is to start out at http://scholar.google.com. However, there many other strategies for searching you can use, and the HOW TO SEARCH THE INTERNET section will help you best.
Learning to use Google or other search engines can save you time and help you learn to find information efficiently. Here are some websites that can teach you how:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/searchtips.html
http://www.pandia.com/goalgetter/index.html
http://websearch.about.com/mbody.htm?once=true&COB=home&PM=112_100_T
... and one to help you judge whether a particular website's information is worth your time:
http://hanlib.sou.edu/searchtools/evaluate.html