Personal Blog, week 2

On Tuesday I was talking to our tech instructional specialist about what she was preparing for a "tech time" meeting she would be facilitating with our adm. council. The conversation turned to using the NETS-A standards as a pair/share conversation. I mentioned to her that we were doing personal reflections on the standards in this class, and she shared that she was teaching a master's level class and doing the same type of activity with the NETS teacher standards. I like the idea of using those standards as a way to set the bar for what we should expect in the way of tech behaviors and attitudes with our adm., staff and students. Hadn't really given this much thought to those standards before now. I have to admit, though, I'm surprised that we are using the 2002 standards when they are already out of date. Isn't part of the point to be using the best, most recent information available to us?