NCLB requires that districts have in place a plan to ensure that by the end of Grade 8, every student is technologically literate. Just how this requirement is implemented is a local district decision.

Districts are required to report Grade 8 Literacy:

  • On ESEA Consolidated Application
    • Added assurance that your district has a “plan in place” to determine your student’s technology literacy starting June 2006.

 

Districts are required to answer two questions:
  1. How many 8th Graders were assessed for technological literacy?
  2. How many of the assessed 8th graders were technologically literate?
Instruments available to assess 8th grade technological literacy:

 

State Educational Technology Director’s Association (SETDA) – Definition of Technological Literacy:
“Technology Literacy is the ability to responsibly use appropriate technology to communicate; solve problems; and access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information to improve learning in all subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st Century.”


For more information about this service contact:
Paula Walser
Director of E-Learning - Cesa 6
920-236-0541
pwalser@cesa6.k12.wi.us