I came upon two articles dealing with a new test by ETS regarding student tech literacy skills – they are attached below.
County schools put students’ computer skills to the test
ETS Tech Literacy Test
Entries from February 20th, 2007
Two articles on Tech Literacy Testing
February 20th, 2007 · Add Comments · General Documents, Practice
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Notes from Monday Feb 12 Tech Meeting
February 12th, 2007 · Add Comments · General Documents
Brady and Hyung discussed the practice portion – surveys and focus groups talking about skills being used and not used, keyboarding is a major issue. Some sort of communication portal for kids is a need(for example First Class) – kids at middle school want to use technology like they use at home. Revision of student [...]
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New Student Standards for Tech
February 8th, 2007 · Add Comments · General Documents, Practice
To keep pace with the changing demands of a new global economy, the International Society for Technology in Education is revising its nine-year-old National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), a pioneering set of guidelines for what students should know about, and be able to do with, technology. ISTE has released a draft version of its new [...]
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Does the $100 Laptop Have a Future in the US?
February 6th, 2007 · Add Comments · Future Thoughts, General Documents
Article deals with the adoption of the $100 laptop into US markets at a slightly higher price
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/features/55577.html
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Proficiency SubCommittee Meeting January 30
February 1st, 2007 · Add Comments · Meeting Dates, Proficiency
The proficiency subcommittee met to share the results of our online and focus group surveys. We reviewed the data together and talked about some of the commonalities amongst the focus groups. The need for more teaching training and sharing in some of the more fundamental skill and application areas came out loudly. We will come [...]
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