Over the next few weeks I am participating in an online course to better familiarize myself with the Washington State Educational Technology Standards and how to integrate and assess them. My goal is two-fold, to integrate these standards into my own teaching, and to help teachers find ways to integrate the standards into their curriculum as painlessly as possible. I cannot possibly cover all the standards, but I can help make sure they are covered between my library lessons and classroom lessons.
So far we have had good discussions in the forum for the class, which is presented by OSPI (Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction here in Washington State). One of the most helpful elements of the course is links within each lesson to relevant documents on the OSPI website. As a teacher-librarian, the most helpful is the crosswalk between the EdTech standards and Information and Technology standards, including the Big6, NETS-S from ISTE, AASL standards and Washington State information literacy standards.
In addition, with the adoption of Common Core in Washington State, OSPI has a crosswalk between EdTech and ELA Common Core makes the connections that teacher-librarians and teachers need to find ways to integrate both EdTech and Common Core within their curriculum.
Lastly, OSPI offers a crosswalk between EdTech and core subjects to further emphasize the many ways in which technology can be integrated.
As we move into more lessons (we are in Week 2 now) that discuss what hardware and software we have available to us, and examine the standards more closely, I will have more ideas for my own integration of the standards and how I can support teachers in their implementation.
