AECT+Standards

Association for Educational Communications and Technology
 * Standard 1: Design**

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to design conditions for learning by applying principles of instructional systems design, message design, instructional strategies, and learner characteristics.

A constructivist approach, where students included their own real-world economic experiences, was used in the design of the spreadsheet lesson. Software and hardware technologies for the classroom where examined for the Technology Integration Planning model. The technologies presented in this website under various specialty areas (Math, Science, ELL, and Art/Music) demonstrate useful ways to use technology in the classroom. The technology integration tables begin the design process with stating the problem in each integration example. Instructional system design and learner characteristics are considered when determining which different technological resources should be implemented depending on the problem that is presented.


 * Standard 2: Development**

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to develop instructional materials and experiences using print, audiovisual, computer-based, and integrated technologies.

In the development of this technology integration wiki, several technologies where used in the creation of lessons and presentations. Photo editors, video editors, HTML editors, word processors, and spreadsheets where all used in conjunction with the Internet to aid in integrating technology. Additionally, this standard was addressed using the Funding Flier that was created to explore the various resources of educational grants and funding available to educators.


 * Standard 3: Utilization**

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to use processes and resources for learning by applying principles and theories of media utilization, diffusion, implementation, and policy-making.

The spreadsheet lesson is an excellent example of using a technology tool that allows the candidate to implement the utilization of a given technology and its implementation in the classroom setting. The assistive technology lesson also covered this standard when considering which adaptive technology was appropriate for which group of students with learning disabilities.


 * Standard 4: Management**

Candidates demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions to plan, organize, coordinate, and supervise instructional technology by applying principles of project, resource, delivery system, and information management.

The spreadsheet lesson, once again, provided an excellent example of planning, coordinating, and implementing instructional technology in a classroom setting. This wiki also serves as an example of the planning, organization and coordination necessary to successfully demonstrate how instructional technology can be implemented to further the principles learned throughout this class.


 * Standard 5: Evaluation**

Candidates demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions to evaluate the adequacy of instruction and learning by applying principles of problem analysis, criterion-referenced measurement, formative and summative evaluation, and long-range planning.

The spreadsheet lesson is an example of using technology to deliver formative evaluation materials in an online format. The technology integration assignments additionally allow for problem analysis, research, and the summative evaluations of using technology in the classroom setting under a variety of different scenarios. This standard was additionally addressed in the Instructional Software assignment. Different technological tools were weighed for their ability to evaluate and assess the knowledge of learners.

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