ISTE National Educational Technology

Standards For Students (NETSFS)

From how technology teachers
facilitate learners, outcomes of
student learning should indicate
that the following standards have
been complied with.
 Standard 1: Creativity & Innovation
This standard will produce students
who demonstrate creative thinking,
construct knowledge, develop
innovative products and processes
using technology from existing
knowledge.
 Standard 2: Communication &
Collaboration
This standards requires students to use digital
media and environments to communicate and work
collaboratively to support individual learning and
contribute to the learning of others. This includes
use of variety of media and formats for Global
awareness with learners from other cultures.
 Standard 3: Research & information
Fluency
Students are expected to apply digital tools to
gather, evaluate and use information and plan
strategies for inquiry. This standards expects the
students to locate, organize, analyze, evaluate,
synthesize and ethically use of information from a
variety of sources and media.
 Standard 4: Critical Thinking-problem
Solving and Decision Making.
This standard expects the students to use
critical thinking skills to plan and conduct
research, manage projects, solve problems
and make informed decisions using
appropriate digital tools.
Standard 5: Digital Citizenship
It is required by this standard that every
technology student becomes a digital citizen who
demonstrates ethical and legal behavior,
exemplified by the practice of safe, legal and
responsible use of information. Further, the
student exhibit positive attitude towards the
support of technology for collaboration, learning
and productivity as a digital citizen.
 Standard 6: Technology Operation and
Concepts
Sound understanding of technology
concepts, system and operation is a
standard that students should comply
with. They too, are expected to further
transfer current knowledge to learning
of new technologies.
 As pre-service teacher education students now,
you will have to master the knowledge and the
skills (Learning to know) for the standards for
students. However since you will become teachers
in the future, you should harness the same
knowledge and skills to become (Learning to
Become) future teachers.
Lesson: Roles of Technology
for Teaching & Learning
Are students of today interested to use technology
in order to learn? Do teachers have the skills to
use technology to enhance their teaching?

With the 4th Industrial Revolution, nobody can deny

the influence of technology in our lives. As future
teachers of 21st century, it is high time that you
prepare yourselves to integrate technology in your
classrooms. Using technology is a tool and a
catalyst for change.
 According to Stosic (2015),
educational technology has 3
domains:
1. Technology as a tutor
Together with the teacher, technology can support the
teacher to teach another person or technology when
programmed by the teacher can be a tutor on its own.
The teacher will simply switch on or switch off radio
programs, television programs or play DVDs, or CDs
that contain educational programs. There are on-line
tutorial educational programs, too.
 2. Technology as a Teaching Tool
Like a tutor, technology is a teaching tool, but can
never replace a teacher. This is like the handyman,
which is just there to be reached. Like any other
tool, it is being used to facilitate and lighten the
work of the teacher. It will be good if a teacher can
also create or develop technology tools that are
needed in the classroom.
 3. Technology as Learning tool
While the teacher utilizes technology as the tool for
teaching, likewise it is an effective tool for learning. As a
learning tool, it makes learning easy and effective. It can
produce learning outcomes that call for technology-
assisted teaching. Even the teachers who are teaching
can utilize similar tools for learning. As a learning tool, it
is very interesting that even the elderly use these tools
for teaching for life.
 A. For teachers and teaching
There are numerous roles that technology plays in the
job of teachers. As a tool, technology has opened wider
avenues in management of resources and management
of learning.

Here are some examples of the myriad of roles that

technology can do for teachers and teaching:
1. Technology provides enormous support
to the teacher as the facilitator of Learning
It transforms passive classroom to an active and
interactive one, with audio-visual aids, charts and
models, smart classrooms, e-learning classrooms
which motivate and increase attention level of
learners. Many of these can be searched on the
web.
 2. Technology has modernized the
teaching-learning environment
The teacher are assisted and supplemented with
appropriately structured instructional materials for daily
activities. There are varied available technology-driven
resources which can be utilized for remedial lesson or
activities. Likewise there are also a lot of technology-driven
resources that can be used for enrichment purposes. You
may search for the example on the web.
 3. Technology improves teaching-learning
process and ways of teaching.
They will make the act of teaching more efficient and effective.
There are arrays of teaching methods and strategies that can
use technology which are found compatible with learning
styles. The multiple intelligence theory of Howard Garner tells
us that there is a genius in every child. This implies that there
must be varied ways of learning. All the learning styles can
find support from technology, so that teaching will be more
effective and efficient.
 4. Technology Opens New Fields in
Educational Researches.
The areas of teaching testing and evaluation are
enhanced by technologies for teaching and
learning. Current educational researches will no
longer and find difficulty in interpreting tests,
assessment and other evaluation results. There
are available programs that can analyze and
interpret results with speed and accuracy.
5. Technology adds to the competence of
teachers and inculcates scientific outlook
Through the utilization of theories and
learning and intelligence, which are
explained in references uploaded in the
net, the teachers are encouraged to
imbibe skills to source these information
with speed and accuracy.
 6.Technology support teacher
professional development
With the demand of continuing
professional development for teachers,
the availability of technology provides
alternative way of attending
professional development