ISTE

There is a nonprofit organization called International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) which strives to increase techonlogy in the classrooms to help students with many different aspects of their lives. For example technology in this classroom can help leadership and aid in student's ability to learn. This organization creates the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for the United States of America. ISTE strives to inform all of it's members about the latest technologies available in the classrooms. It strives to provide leadership and service to improving education for teachers and students. This organization also is the home of the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET) and the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). ISTE also represents more than 85,000 professionals worldwide. More information on ISTE or any of it's smaller organizations can be found at http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=About_ISTE.Along with the above information ISTE is organized by a board of directors, which includes educational leaders. These leaders are elected by ISTE members online during spring, and all members of ISTE are welcomed to run for office. The current board is led by president Kurt Steinhaus. The ISTE allows everyone to know what is going on with the program through periodicals and journals as they work together with SIGs (Special Interest Groups) and affiliates.

ISTE NETS also provides [|Lessons] for teachers to use in the classroom as well as [|Resources] such as: standards, rubrics, forms, software, glossary, and more! The National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers is a website which not only allows teachers to understand what they are supposed to teach, but it also instructs and provides examples on how to teach these lessons as well. This is an important tool for the teacher to teach technology to the students, and is inportant for the student as well because they are enbled to be instructed in the technological field with the correct educational tools and curriculum. This organization has developed various projects to not only help and set standards for students but for the teachers as well. It helps the teachers in their classrooms by giving them guidelines of where their students should be at in technological terms. In addition to these guidelines, they offer ways for the teachers to assess where their students stand so they can make adjustments as necessary.