8/8/2019 ISTE Technology Standards Reflection 01
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TF-I Technology Operations and Concepts
Educational technology facilitators demonstrate an in-depth
understandingof technology operations and concepts
This standard deals with the concept of operation of technology
devices (Williamson, J and
Redish, T., 2009). The view since technology was introduced in
the school environment has
evolved in the last decade. The general thought in technology
instruction began with education
of how it worked. Today the focus is more on curriculum and how
technology integration can
assist to enhance the learning process. At one point educators
trouble was figuring out how
these technologies worked. Now the process is a bit easier being
that teachers pick up the
basics within the work place and out of the workplace
(Williamson, J and Redish, T., 2009).
The application of this standard in my case resulted in two
manners. The first one was the
original intention meant to assist other colleagues with
technical assistance. I see this every
day especially since I seem to be the only teacher in the grade
level to fit into the Digital Native
role. Most of this teachers were not computer savvy, they
adapted into the changing of a more
technology based setting in the school (Prensky, 2001).However,
that is not the only reason. It
is the fact that I work more closely with technology than my
colleagues. As far as integration
with curriculum, I worked in the same capacity with the Campus
Technology Contact to display
the available hardware and examples of how they could be used to
integrate curriculum. An
example involves how to use of an Interwrite PAD to help
students work on D.O.L. in small
groups, or how you could scan certain documents through a PDF
sender and bring up the
images instead of using an overhead projector. The experiences
helped me recall the evolution
of this standard. It was interesting to see that the end result
was how teachers took the initiative
to connect their equipment and give it a try in their
classroom.
The life learning skills gained are not limited to just teaching
my colleagues how to use
technology. The idea in general is to help them use the
technology to enhance the learning of
their students, and their own performance. This in turn can
evolve into creating a collaborative
