Technology Standards for Students

This video exemplified several of the technology standards for students. The students showed that they had basic operation skills and knowledge of concepts. They were able to get onto Yahoo and find their cities, along with finding the information on weather about their particular cities. The very first thing the students were doing was a “cyberhunt.” They were looking for information about weather for their particular states that they were researching. This would fall under the standard for technology research tools. They were using the internet to collect information about the weather. The students were also using a program entitled KidPics. This would fall under the technology productivity tools. They were being creative using this program to create slides for their particular city and the weather of that city. Although, we did not see the students participating in e-pals, the teacher stated that she planned on having them do this activity in the future. This shows that the students are or will use technology communication tools. I thought this was a very interesting video. It showed a very diverse classroom with students using technology. I thought it was great that these young students were already using computers in a variety of ways. I think these students are at a great advantage because they have a teacher who is very willing to incorporate technology into this classroom in a variety of ways, and just not by letting the students play computer games. This video in a way supports my last post, which was it would be beneficial to introduce technology at a young age to children.