Standards

The main standards for technology in education are the [|National Educational Technology Standards](NETS), developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

There are three sets on standards:
 * NETS for Students (NETS-S) -- what students should know and practice
 * NETS for Teachers (NETS-T) -- what teachers should know and practice
 * NETS for Administrators -- what educational administrators should know and practice

Illinois does not have its own set of technology standards. Instead. the Illinois State Board of Education links to the ISTE standards.

The NETS-S are very general. ISTE has published additional documents that provide implementation ideas. For example, the NETS-S Profiles describes "technology literate students at key developmental points in their pre-college education." ISTE also maintains a NETS-S Implementation Wiki, where teachers contribute their ideas on how to address the NETS-S for different grade bands. Finally, ISTE has an Essential Conditions document, which lays out "necessary conditions to effectively leverage technology for learning."

For an alternative take on technology standards (and the related concept of technology literacy), see the document Tech Tonic: Towards a New Literacy of Technology.

See Scope and Sequence for links to how some educational bodies have defined what technology skills students should have.