(National) National Standards:  ISTE

(State) NH State Regulation:  Ed 306.42

(Local) Kearsarge School Board Policy:  IJNDB-Technology Integration

The ICT Standards should be thought of as knowledge and skills that facilitate your learning of core content material.  ICT shouldn't be thought of as something you do for the sake of using a technology tool.  The technology tool/resource should enhance or promote a deeper understanding of a content area.  

Working towards proficiency with the ICT standards, beginning in Kindergarten and extending through 8th grade, allows you to develop a range of technology skills that should prepare you for high school and life beyond high school.  

Showing proficiency in the ICT standards is very important to us at Kearsarge.  Your digital portfolio is a chance for you to showcase your best work in your various school subjects.  It allows us to see how the ICT strands have supported your learning.

Here is what the research says:

ICT is seen as an enabler rather than an end in itself.  Skill with Information and Communication Technologies enables teachers and learners to connect to better information, ideas and to one another via appropriate and effective combinations of pedagogy in support of learning goals  (White Paper on Education, 2004).

Projects using ICT generally result in an artifact that can be seen as outcome based education or OBE.  Successful demonstrations of learning outcomes are actions and performances that embody and reflect learner competence in using content information, ideas, and tools successfully (Ally, 2009).

KRMS has a  digital portfolio process in place for grades 6-8 to showcase students' abilities to use the Information and Communication Standards in academic subjects.  The ICT Standards come from ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education).  During the Annual National Conference in 2016, ISTE unveiled the 2016 Student Standards.  

This is the third iteration of the technology standards for students and underscores the changing face of technology in education and society.  The image below is a visual representation of the 2016 Standards for Students.  The image is used with permission from ISTE for educational purposes.  The prior standards had 6 strands and the 2016 standards have 7 strands.

• At KRMS, students in grades 6, 7 and 8 work on the digital portfolio with support from the classroom teacher, librarian, and the digital learning specialist.

• Students upload/post at least one artifact (each year) from each of their core content areas:  Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, ELA.  

• Students also add projects done in specials such as World Languages, Art, Tech Ed, FACS, PE, Health and/or Music. 

• The digital portfolio is evidence of the use of technology to deepen learning in the content areas and includes a range of technology tools that showcase the ICT Standards.

• Beginning in the 2023-2024 school year, students will be using Bookcreator as their digital portfolio curation tool.