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21st Century Skills
Standards
Technology and
Literacy Skills Standards
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Educators Website for Information Technology EWIT Instructional Resources Standards
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Partners for Information Technology in Education and
Training at EDC is a team of professionals with extensive
backgrounds and experience in the IT industry, community
organizations, K-12 public schools, career and technical education,
and higher education. Their services and products are excellent
resources for K-20 policy makers and practitioners and employers of IT
professionals. Consult this Web site
for a full description of these services and products.
Links are provided to:
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K-20 Instructional
Technology Skills Standards Resources
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National and International Instructional Technology Skills
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K-12 State Instructional
Technology Curriculum Standards
IT technicians and professionals need certain standard skills to be
able to succeed in their jobs. These
skills standards
communicate to educators the skill and knowledge requirements mandated
by the IT industry, and provide a guide to the development of IT
programs and curriculum. In this section, program and curriculum
developers and teachers can find a comprehensive and qualified list of
IT skill standards being used to develop IT education and training
programs, and technology standards driving technology skill and
knowledge development for all students.
http://www2.edc.org/ewit/resource.asp |
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International Technology Education Association (ITEA) |
Focusing on teaching technology as a subject these
standards were developed by the Technology for All Americans Project
(International Technology Education Association ITEA) to promote the
study of technology and technological literacy.
Standards for
Technological Literacy
present a vision of what students need to know to be technologically
literate. Consult the outline summary of these standards in
enGuage (NCREL).
http://www.iteaconnect.org/ |
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National Institute for Literacy |
The National Institute for Literacy's activities to
strengthen literacy across the lifespan is authorized by the U.S.
Congress under two laws, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA)
in the Workforce Investment Act and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
Equipped for the Future, 21st Century Skills for the New Economy promotes EFF (Equipped for the Future) Standards
that define the knowledge and skills adults need in order to
successfully carry out their roles as parents and family members,
citizens and community members, and workers.
http://www.nifl.gov/ |
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National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET)
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Building a Foundation for Tomorrow: Skill Standards for
Information Technology, is a cooperative effort of the North West Center
for Emerging Technologies, the Regional Advanced Technology Education
Consortium, the Washington State Board for Community and Technical
Colleges, the Washington Software and Digital Media Alliance (WSDMA),
and the Society for Information Management (SIM). NWCET has identified
and described skill standards for eight IT career clusters in this
publication which is available for purchase from NWCET. Links on this
page describe the IT Skills Standards.
http://www.nwcet.org/products/skillStandards.asp
The National Workforce mission is to build upon the foundation of the
Information Technology (IT) Skill Standards in order to: design
innovative IT educational programs, provide national thought leadership
to education, business and government and contribute to the development
of a skilled US Information Technology (IT) workforce
A good description
of the standards espousing a need for them is described in this EDUCAUSE
article,
Information Technology Jobs and Skill Standards by Neil Evans.
http://www.nwcet.org/ |
National Education Technology Standards
Information Literacy
Standards
Media Literacy Standards
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Center for Media Literacy CML |
The Center for Media
Literacy (CML) is a nonprofit educational organization that provides leadership,
public education, professional development and educational resources nationally.
Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework
for accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media content, CML works to
help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media
production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media
culture. The Center acknowledges a strong presence on their Web site for
support of the
Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Other valuable related articles
and resources on media literacy are available here.
http://www.medialit.org/
http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/ |
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Media Literacy Clearinghouse
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The Media
Literacy Clearinghouse is an extensive collection of links to articles,
background and lesson plans designed to help teachers integrate media
literacy into classroom instruction. Resources are categorized by topics
which include information literacy, bias, propaganda and more.
http://www.frankwbaker.com/ |
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Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning McREL |
In Language Arts
Standards and Benchmarks, McRel identifies a comprehensive K-12 standard for
viewing media-Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media. For understanding media, consult
Standard 10: Understands the characteristics and components of the media.
They are part of a standards database entitled
Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education
The two media literacy standards -- viewing and media -- are recent additions to McREL's language arts standards which include writing, reading, listening and
speaking.
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/Benchmark.asp?SubjectID=7&StandardID=9 |
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Project Look Sharp Ithaca College, NY |
Project Look Sharp interprets media literacy as the ability to access, analyze,
critically evaluate, and produce communication in a variety of forms. They
define "media" very broadly to include television, radio, books, magazines,
newspapers, billboards, movies, recorded music, video games, and
computer-assisted communication (such as the Internet). Like traditional
literacy, media literacy involves critical thinking, analytical skills, and the
ability to express oneself in different ways. Being media literate also involves
using media wisely and filtering information from different sources effectively.
Project Look Sharp has produced
12 Basic Principles for Incorporating Media Literacy into any Curriculum.
The principles are general guidelines for thinking about ways to integrate media
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Curriculum and Content Standards
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Project 2061 |
While not standards, Project 2061
is a long-term AAAS initiative to advance literacy in science, math and
technology. There are five components: Learning Goals, Curriculum Materials,
Research on Teaching and Learning, Testing and Assessment and Family and
Community. Benchmarks for Science Literacy
is the Project 2061 statement of what all students should know and be able to do
in science, mathematics, and technology by the end of grades 2, 5, 8, and 12.
Benchmarks for Science Literacy is the Project 2061 statement of what all
students should know and be able to do in science, mathematics, and technology
by the end of grades 2, 5, 8, and 12.
http://www.project2061.org/default_flash.htm |
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English Language Arts Standards (IRA/NCTE) |
21st Century Skills are woven into the English Language Arts Standards which are
provided by the International Reading Association and the National Council of
Teachers of English. Using the search strategy provided, lesson plans and
resources can be found on critical literacy, inquiry/research and media literacy
- all 21st Century Skills.
http://www.readwritethink.org/standards/index.html |
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Foreign Language Standards for 21st Century
(3rd ed.) |
Standards for Foreign Language Learning in
the 21st Century (3rd edition) are described and available for purchase
on this site:
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
Foreign Language is
recognized as a critical skill needed in building a strong workforce for the new
demands of the 21st century.
Standards
for Foreign Language Learning; Preparing for the 21st Century (1999
edition) a
coalition of four national language organizations (the American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages, the American Association of Teachers of French,
the American Association of Teachers of German, and the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) received funding to develop standards for
foreign language education, grades K-12. These national standards are part of
the Bush Administration's America 2000 education initiative. Additional
resources of this topic may be found on the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language Web site.
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1 |
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National
Standards for Social Studies Teachers |
The National Standards for Social Studies Teachers were developed by a task
force of National Council for the Social Studies and approved by the NCSS Board
of Directors in April, 1997. The subject matter standards are the main focus of
the document.
http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherstandards/
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National Science Education Standards |
Inquiry into authentic questions generated from student experiences is the
central strategy for teaching science. This is strongly addressed in the science
standards.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/ |
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Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM) |
Investigative and problem solving skills are defined in
the standards. Electronic (E-examples) are provided for each area and
grade level.
http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter3/index.htm |
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