NETS-S

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The National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) was first developed by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in 1998 and updated in 2007. They are an attempt to enumerate the necessary foundational skills and expertise that every student will need for living and working in the digital age and are broken up into six broad categories including; Creativity and Innovation, Communication and Collaboration, Research and Information Fluency, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving/Decision Making, Digital Citizenship, and Technology Operations/Concepts.

These standards, coupled with the framework developed by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, represent the foundation of what will become my rubric for evaluating the educational value of social networking sites.

ISTE. (2007). NETS-S. ISTE. Retrieved July 12, 2009, from http://www.iste.org/content/navigationmenu/nets/for_students/nets_s.htm.