This article discusses how the category of communication and collaboration is the easiest of the NETS to meet. According to the project manager for ISTE’s NETS Seal of Alignment program teachers focus on this NET early in their professional career. Since students and teachers use these skills in their personal, professional, and academic lives it makes it easier to design learning activities that incorporate this NET than it might be for others. Studies have shown that schools that implemented applications focused on communication such as administrator blogs, professional learning communities, and online interactive communication systems for parents were more effective in applying innovative technology. In Kannapolis City Schools they model great communication and collaboration. Administrators shared their vision with the teachers and they collaborated to create the lessons. The teachers helped each other create effective lesson plans that modeled the use of digital age tools for communicating and collaborating. It is also important to keep the communication and collaboration focused on the students desire to learn by finding out what they like and encouraging them to seek that knowledge.
Q1. How can this information be used to better incorporate the other NETS?
Since this research shows how and why teachers are being more successful at incorporating this NET into the lesson planning maybe they can use the same model to help develop ways to incorporate the other NETS.
Q2. How will this information be useful to future teachers?
This will be useful to future teachers because we can be more aware of the NETS that are harder to incorporate in the lesson planning and make a greater effort to accomplish the NETS goals.
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