Well, everyone's holiday weekend came to a close with class tonight.
The inital phase of the class allowed our Neverending Quest-ions group to hobnob and exchange ideas about the work so far and standards based education versus creative knowledge building. We then departed for Elluminate where we spent roughly half the time commenting on the differences between information and knowledge in the technology laden, net generation age, and the second half designing an acronym incorporating the central tenets of the ISTE National Educations Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S). On the former, the articles suggested that today's students are bombarded with and have a certain sophistication in gathering data from multiple data points and sources, information, yet knowledge involves the shift to long term memory from short term and analysis, evaluation, and synthesis. Packaging data. Our group acronym was F-U-S-I-O-N, since we thought the NETS-S really spoke of fusion of sources and skills with the aid of technology. To paraphrase, F meant fluency with information sources and mediums; U meant understanding concepts, not just facts; S meant strategies of instruction allowing synthesis of various data and concepts; I meant integration of technology into conventional curriculum; O meant opportunities for students to create, share, and publish with technological means; and N meant networking, the important social component of student learning in the net generation.
Our group posted an artful, colorful banner for our acronym.
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