ISTE is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology.
The National Educational Technology Standards for Students is designed to provide teachers, technology planners, teacher preparation institutions, and educational decision-makers with frameworks and standards to guide them in establishing enriched learning environments supported by technology.
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NETS for Teachers Project, a US Department of Education, Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology grant facilitated a series of activities and events resulting in a national consensus on what teachers should know about and be able to do with technology. The project will also provide models for teacher preparation programs to use in incorporating technology in the teacher preparation process and disseminate these promising practices for preparing tomorrow's teachers to use technology effectively for improving learning.
