These ICT Literacy standards are based on standards and policy recommendations related to educational technology from various sources over the past decade. Those standards and their originating organizations are listed here:

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has a wealth of resources on their website. They spearheaded the creation of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S).

NH Society for Technology in Education (NHSTE) is our state’s affiliate organization of ISTE.

ICT Digital Literacy Portal has many resources on the topic and an active community of online speakers, forums, and discussions.

Partnership for 21^st Century Skills has a wealth of information about ICT skills. One of their initiatives is the creation of literacy maps in English, geography, math, science, and social studies to show concrete examples of how ICT literacy can be integrated into core subjects.

The Second Information Technology in Education Study: Module 2 (SITES: M2) is an international study of innovative pedagogical practices that use information and communication technology (ICT).

American Association of School Librarians (ALA) has several resources related to the Information Power standards.

New Hampshire Educational Media Association (NHEMA) is our state’s association of school librarians.

International Technology Education Association (ITEA) developed the Standards for Technological Literacy.

Here are additional resources for use in developing ICT Literacy Programs:

NETS Online Performance Based Assessment – This online tool was developed jointly by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and Microsoft, to assess 8^th graders’ competence in the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S). The tool was aligned to the original NETS-S and is no longer actively supported. However, you can still see which skills were assessed with it using the link above.

TechYES is a program created for technology literacy certification, which could be incorporated into a middle school ICT course to provide both course content and end-of-course assessment.

International Computer Driving License (ICDL) – Provides a credential program for students.

Certiport IC3 – Provides another path to certifying your students in ICT literacy skills.

IT Pathway Program – Provides curriculum resources for Information Technology studies in middle through high school. This program was developed by several NH educators as part of a Career Pathways grant. Two courses, “IT and Me” and “IT and Me Works”, are particularly useful for NH districts developing ICT Literacy Programs.

 

Massachusetts revised their instructional technology standards to incorporate the ISTE NETS and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills into three broad standards, which are broken down by grade level. The standards were approved by the Massachusetts Board of Education on April 29, 2008. Each year when submitting NCLB applications, districts report the percentage of students that meet these benchmarks, and the expectation is that the percentage of students meeting the benchmarks will increase each year. Districts can assess this competence in the way they choose (i.e., test, observation, portfolio, other).

Vermont Educational Technology Performance Tasks – Provides an extensive set of possible tasks from which to build course activities tied to NETS-S. These are content-neutral tasks designed to support classroom level determination of students’ knowledge and skills. The original performance tasks, created by a group of teachers in the northwestern part of Vermont through support from VITA-Learn, were the foundation for Vermont's Technology Grade Expectations.