The Effect of Technology Standards

As technology standards begin to change, school districts have to keep up with the growing technology by educating the students while incorporating these standards in the classroom. The districts will have to change by adjusting spending and funds. Without adequate funds, a school will have a hard time achieving these technology standards.
A school as a whole will have to support technology by having a up to date technology lab where students can practice things that were stated in the standards, such as learning power point, functioning on word processor, and even operating the internet for constructive and applicable use. There will also be the possibility that the teachers will need a lesson on the new technology a school has to offer. It may effect what schools look for when hiring a prospective teacher.
The teachers will also have to adapt to the continually changing technological advances. For example, referring to the necessity of learning technology as a teacher will make it hard for those who have already been teaching for a while, who have used the same old principals of teaching, which may not include the use of many technologies that will assist child learning.
My personal development as a teacher will also be effected by the standard. I will have to keep up with the times to be able to relay necessary technology skills to my students. I don't want to be the teacher who can barely operate a VCR. It will also be important for me to keep in touch with other faculty through the use of e-mail or other discussion friendly cites. This kind of contemporary socialization is something I will look for in a school when I job search.

8.1 Educational Technology
Grade 12 (8.1.12.F.2)

This strand describes the standard that says students should be able to use a computer and the internet to access informative databases. They should also be able to use these databases to obtain the information they need in correspondence to the class or world issue.

In high school classroom, I will have students use the internet to assist them with writing a paper and creating a thesis. Finding information on the internet is a learned skill as they will have to learn to siphon though the irrelevant or inaccurate information that can be found. I will show them how to obtain the proper information by going through the scholarly journal cites that are appropriate for the class. When doing this, tricks, such as how to enter the subject into the search engine can be helpful and efficient. Other skills are in the use of understanding the scholarly articles and applying them to the thesis of the paper. They will have to learn how to use their own ideas while incorporating them with the ideas of those who have published articles. When using other works to support your thesis, students must learn the rules of citation in order to avoid plagiarizing which is a very serious offense.
For example, students reading the novel, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, can read the novel, research different aspects of the Ibo culture in Africa, and comprise a essay, including a thesis, that is typed up in a formal paper.