A Collective Work?

A collective work, I like that definition for this type of "standard". I spent quite a bit of time on the ISTE website and at first it seemed loaded with information and links. But when I was trying to see what the actual standards it seemed the site was really geared toward selling me something. Thanks to a wiki I found while searching it gave me a direct link to the pdf for students standards. I would have seen it if I would have scrolled down the page a little farther but I kept following a link in the article, oh well.

I did look at the board members but I don't have any idea who any of them are so I read the mission statement, bylaws etc. Well it gets too wordy for me so I guess I will go with their results and say that while the standards seem broad compare to other subject areas I think it has to be that way for this field of study.

Just going to let you wonder about the picture! What does it have to do with standards? Can you figure it out?

Good utube by CEO of ISTE gives a short overview of ISTE and what it is about. International Society for Technology in Education. Educators in this field owe it to students to keep on top things. The standards for teachers are a good guide for us. My favorite is "Model Digital-Age Work and Learning", just an excuse to keep taking classes and trying out new things.

HONESTY

 error in syntax
haiku dot c line two
too few syllables
--Daniel from Gig Harbor, Washington

Just for fun you can enter your own techie haiku and have a chance to win some money.

I am an honest person so I do not want to copy something that I have no right to. I like the definition of plagiarism described as trying to pass something off as your own when it isn't. So if I make sure and let you know that I did not write that haiku up above by telling you who did write it then I have done my job, right?

I do not want to spend hours trying to document everything just the right way so if I make sure you know where you can find it and who it belongs to do I really need to do it just the way MLA or APL say?

One more thing!

An article on

Bringing

Computational

Thinking to K-12:

What is Involved

and What is the Role

of the Computer

Science Education

Community?

By Valerie Barr and Chris Stephenson

This is a terrific article! I have tried to explain to my mom what excel would have meant to her when she was working. She kept the books for my dad's doctor's office for 25 years and lived on 3-4 hours of sleep a night for years because they felt they needed to handle some of the tasks personally. Record keeping, wow have computers changed our lives. If you have the right formlas you don't have to add something over and over, you know it is right.

On page 52 there is a table to help you see how computational thinking can be accomplished for different concepts and in different subject areas.

Enjoy!