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After looking over the standards I feel a lot of the things mentioned were good to point out for students and teachers. I think the broad approach they take in writing it is a good approach as well because not all schools have the financial capabilities to outfit the school technologically as well as others. Going with a basis for standards that aren't to stringent doesn't make it too difficult for teachers to meet these standards as well as turning them off to the idea of trying to meet these standards. One thing that I think they should have covered in more detail was concerns about children and internet use. While they won't be using Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter and other media networking sites a lot in school it should be covered and school is a good place to have these issues addressed. Students are easy prey to a lot of things on the internet and these concerns should be addressed at some point and teachers who bring internet use into the lesson would have a perfect opportunity to address large groups of students about the concerns of the internet. Something that they stressed a lot was students collaborating on projects which I think is a great thing. The internet and computers are in every part of society and will be used in almost any profession and having these students work together collaborating on projects is a great way to build teamwork as well as giving them exposure and experience on computers. I think an addendum that could be made to the teacher section would be more direction when it comes to certain subjects. While each teacher should be given the ability to choose how they incorporate technology in their classroom certain subjects would make it easy to cover this topic only lightly and making a standard that requires the teacher reach a certain level of use of technology would be a great thing to include.