TESOL Technology Standards for Students

TESOL Technology Standards for Students

Goal 1: Students demonstrate foundational skills and knowledge in technology for a multilingual world.

Standard 1: Students can use basic operating system and browser functions.

Standard 2: Students are able to use available input and output devices (e.g., keyboard, mouse, printer, headset, microphone, media player)

Standard 3: Students exercise appropriate caution when using online sources and when engaging in electronic communication.

Standard 4: Students demonstrate strategic competence as users of technology.

Goal 2. Students use technology in socially and culturally-appropriate ways

Standard 1: Students understand that communication conventions differ across cultures, communities, and contexts.

Standard 2: Students demonstrate respect for others in their use of private and public information.

Goal 3. Students use technology-based tools as aids in the development of their language learning competence as part of formal instruction and for further learning.

Standard 1: Students effectively use available technology-based productivity tools

Standard 2: Students appropriately use available technology-based language skill-building tools

Standard 3: Students appropriately use available technology-based tools for communication and collaboration

Standard 4: Students use available technology-based research tools appropriately

Standard 5: Students recognize the value of technology to support autonomy, lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.