A Conference to Support Revisions to the Standards for Technological Literacy

近二十年前，《技术素养标准：技术学内容》确定了一个懂技术的学生应该知道和能够做的事情。2000年首次发布时，技术素养标准为美国及其他地区的技术和工程教育项目建立了跨K-12阶段学习的内容指南和基准。《技术素养标准》已成为广泛的学校项目、学区、州教育部、教师认证考试和国家课程开发努力的决策和教育规划的基础。该文件已被翻译成芬兰语、普通话、日语和德语，并为ITEEA的设计工程(EBD)课程模式奠定了基础，该课程模式是美国和其他几个国家K-12技术和工程教师专业发展努力的核心。然而，技术设计的世界和在其中发挥生产力所需的知识继续快速变化。教育领导者意识到，学生应该知道和能够做的事情在今天是不同的，特别是在技术和工程等学科。国际技术和工程教育协会(ITEEA)和技术和工程教师教育理事会(CTETE)将召开一次技术素养标准(STL)修订会议，以制定一份更新的标准文件，目标出版日期为2020年初。STL修订会议将在2018年ITEEA和CTETE成员发起的筹备活动的基础上提出对标准的修订建议。已经召集了一个修订领导小组，并将为会议招募一个30人的审查小组。审查小组将由课堂教师、区或州监督员、两年制和四年制大学教师以及行业代表组成。修订后的标准文件的执行摘要草稿将张贴在ITEEA网站上，征求公众意见，修订后的标准的最终版本将在2020年ITEEA会议上出版和传播，并在网站上提供。修订后的STL文件将通过技术和工程教师出版物以及其他ITEEA新闻来源和其他STEM重点渠道进行宣传。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域的技术人员进行教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Nearly two decades ago, the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology identified what a technologically literate student should know and be able to do. When originally published in 2000, the technological literacy standards established content guidelines and benchmarks for learning across the K-12 spectrum for technology and engineering education programs in the United States and beyond. The Standards for Technological Literacy have served as the basis for decision making and educational planning across a wide spectrum of school programs, districts, state departments of education, teacher certification exams, and national curriculum development efforts. The document has been translated into Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese, and German, and has provided the basis for ITEEA's Engineering by Design (EbD) curriculum model, which is at the core of professional development efforts for K-12 technology and engineering teachers across the U.S. and in several other nations. However, the technologically designed world and the knowledge required to be productive in it continues to rapidly change. Educational leaders realized that what students should know and be able to do is different today, particularly in subjects like technology and engineering. The International Technology and Engineering Education Association (ITEEA) and the Council on Technology and Engineering Teacher Education (CTETE) will convene a Standards for Technological Literacy (STL) Revision Conference to create an updated standards document, with a target publication date of early 2020. The STL Revision Conference will build upon preparatory activities initiated in 2018 by ITEEA and CTETE members to propose revisions to the Standards. A revision leadership team has been convened, and a thirty-member review team will be recruited for the conference. The review team will be comprised of classroom teachers, district or state supervisors, both two-year and four-year college faculty, and industry representatives. A Draft Executive Summary of the revised standards document will be posted on the ITEEA website for public comment, and a final version of the revised standards will be published and disseminated at the 2020 ITEEA conference and made available on the website. The revised STL document will be promoted through the Technology and Engineering Teacher publication as well as other ITEEA news sources and other STEM-focused outlets.This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.