ISTE+Standard+TF-VI

**ISTE Standard TF-VI**

I know that electronic data collection and warehousing offer great potential for school improvement. For this reason, educators are obligated to protect the privacy of student records under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 (Williamson & Redish, 2009).

Model and teach legal and ethical practice related to technology use. For these reason, I have been working in how to promote the use of internet and computers for educational purposes. I noticed that in some classes, existed abuse of games during technology classes. My suggestion was to promote the use of Logo, a language that has graphic characteristics that make it interesting for children allow them to develop high order thinking. Research shows that students make significant learning gains using computers, especially in mathematics (Clements & Meredith, 1993).

Apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities. Promote the use of technology in PK-3 and PK-4 in all campuses. This year our goal is provide Prek and Kindergarten with computer for centers, at least one per classroom.

One of my goal is to promote the use technology resources for all the students, incorporating the inventory of technology skills of the students in the technology class in EC-8 and promote safe and healthy use of technology resources. The school has some devices that protect the network, such has firewalls and antivirus, however I know that it must be accompanied with policies and procedures enforced the appropriate use of internet and computer as is stated in the student handbook and the faculty handbook.

During this program, I also worked in making recommend policies and implement school and classroom strategies for achieving equitable access to technology resources for all students and teachers. As I expressed before, our goal is to provide equitable use of internet to all students and teacher making policies that allow teacher to use resources in a rotating basis. For instance, we modified the schedule in order to provide all students to assist to the computer lab at least two times a week from Kindergarten to 8th grade.

I think that as administrator of technology, we need to provide the students with the same opportunities to access technology, especially when our school has more than 90% of economically disadvantaged students (TEA, 2010).


 * References: **

Clements, D. H. & Meredith, J. S. (1993). My Turn: A Talk with the Logo Turtle. Arithmetic Teacher, 41, 189-191. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Texas Education Agency, (2010). Golden Rule 2009-10 Academic Excellence Indicator System Campus Report.

Retrieved from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/aeis/2010/campus.srch.html

Williamson, Jo; Redish, Traci (2009-02-01). ISTE's Technology Facilitation and Leadership Standards: What Every K-12 Leader Should Know and Be Able to Do (Kindle Locations 3299-3300). International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Kindle Edition.