The Gates to 21^st Century Skills

www.thegateway.org

A Consortium effort to provide teachers with quality materials and tools found on federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial internet Sites. The site includes access to the Achievement Standards Network, a digitized version of every state's core academic standards http://www.jesandco.org/asn/viewer/

Helping teachers find the best of the 100,000 K12 sites

http://LessonPlans4Teachers.com

T.H.E. Journal's Road Map to the Web 2007

http://www.thejournal.com/the/resources/2007/roadmap/  

Curriculum Adminstrator Magazine’s Portal

www.educatorsportal.com

Corporate Sponsored Educational Portals

CONTENT PORTALS

NMSU/CEL collected content sites

- http://nmsu-otlc.pbwiki.com/Content+Resources

learning objects collections

 http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_collections.html

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

 http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

State Standards Databases

Thinking differently about Standards and Project-based learning....

Seymour Papert says:

 “ Standardization is a guarantee of low standards. Individuals having the right to pursue individual interests, this is where you’ll get deep and wonderful growth of individuals. No school can give you what you can give yourself.”

International Standards for Technology in Education: ISTE's Standards: http://www.iste.org/source/Orders/isteTopic.cfm?id=TECHSTD&Section=Technology_Standards

New Mexico Chapter of ISTE: http://nmste.wikispaces.com/

http://cnets.iste.org/index.htm

http://cnets.iste.org/getdocs.html

http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_students.html National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students

http://cnets.iste.org/teachers/t_book.html  Nets for Teachers

National Educational Technology Standards 2007 (PDF 19 KB)

NETS•S Student Profiles (PDF 629 KB)

NETS•S Essential Conditions (PDF 43 KB)

Databases of Standards Listed by State, Topic, and Grade Level:

McREL’s Compendium of Standards: Content Knowledge

www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks

Developing Educational Standards

http://edstandards.org/Standards.html

Council of Chief State School Officers

www.ccsso.org/projects/State_Education_Indicators/Key_State_Education_Policies/3160.cfm