Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, preparing publications, and producing other creative works. Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences. Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collection information from a variety of sources.
Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions. Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world. These national standards seek to educate all students about the pervasive nature of technology, with a focus not just on computers and related devices but the entire human constructed world of artifacts and interactive systems. A set of 20 standards have been created organized around the themes of the nature of technology, technology and society, design, abilities for a technological world, and the designed world.