I found this one to be interesting. She mentioned this, but then said that most implementations are student intended, but aren’t student centered. I think a good word to add here is individual, to represent how they are focused on students, but need to be tailored for individuals.

I have honestly always had a ton of questions about charter schools, I don’t know that I have the best understanding of them but I do think that having an alternative to public schooling other than very pricey private schools could be an asset if done properly. The main issue I have always heard with charter schools is that there is little regulation and minimal standards set by the state or other accrediting body. ISTE would be a great place to start with this problem or any form of education standards. The charter schools in the county I live in are quite selective and have classes on Saturdays and have been fairly successful compared to their city school counterpart. I would think that a combination of working with a public school that has standards and structure like ISTE offers would be a good place to start.

I read a neat article about John Hattie: https://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/what-works-in-education-hatties-list-of-the-greatest-effects-and-why-it-matters/

He talks about SES, but I got that idea that if you focus on the rest of his list of factors that affect student learning, then these factors don’t play as important of a role. I also see this connection in standard 5. Where teacher’s would have to know background and SES in order to best serve their students.

So I’ve always seen an issues with buying a lot of one technology and hoping for the best with minimal detail. It’s almost like a “shiny new thing” phenomena in terms of, fancy new iPads that no one knows how to really integrate with the classroom. ISTE Standard 6 applies here given that the educator should manage the technology to assist the student with their learning strategies and create opportunities for the students to work with the educator on implementing the technology, not just simply saying look up this word on your iPad instead of a dictionary.

This concept is a perfect answer to why standard number 4 can be so complex. The definition for student centered learning can mean 100 different things to 100 different people. The words used in the standard, educator, colleagues, students, parents, co-learn, experts and teams all infer working with others. Student centered learning sends a bit of a different tone on the face value but all of these words used in standard 4 need to be taken into account to properly use and collaborate with technology in the classroom.

I see a connection to standard 7 here, the analyst. Too many national movements use the wrong data, or generalized data. If teachers did a better job of this locally, I think the pressure to adopt national initiatives would be less.