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This lengthy article describes the current situation with regards to teachers as leaders in educational technology and argues that fundamental changes need to be made. Also includes a valuable bibliography with useful links.

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources. Teachers:

b. exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others.

This site is published by the National Educational Computing Conference, and includes a Code of Conduct for teachers seeking to teach digital citizenship.

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers:
a. advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.

This article describes the difficulties that veteran teachers can have with gaining fluency with new technologies. It advocates the use of "knowledge" brokers that can act as an intermediary between the veteran teachers to assist them with learning new technology and including it in their classes.

3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning

Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:

d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

This Intel-sponsored website provides a resource for teachers looking for innovative uses of technology in education. It includes sections for various grades and multiple subjects.

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

This pdf is a brief essay in which the author argues that teaching and learning in the digital age should focus on placing the learner at the center of the experience and fostering an engaged learning environment. Also, he includes a large number of references in his bibliography that may be valuable.

2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:

b. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.