Reflection of Ed Tech Standards

How might you explain the big picture of what these standards are trying to accomplish.
The tech standards that have been instituted are trying to teach children to use technology to learn, live and work. Which I think is pretty much what education in general is trying to accomplish. To make sure that children know their way around the world. A world that is getting more and more technologically oriented. If children are not taught how to be technologically literate, they are not being taught how to learn, work and live in the world as it is emerging. From the US census data we learn that: Sixty-two million U.S. households,  or 55 percent of American homes, had a Web-connected computer in 2003. That’s up from 50 percent in 2001, and more than triple 1997′s 18 percent figure. In just 6 years, the number of internet connected houses tripled. I couldn't find how much it has grown since then, but I imagine it's a lot more by now. 
We simply cannot afford to not teach children how to be technologically literate. 


Describe some strategies you could implement at your grade levels in order to accomplish this huge task
Here's the standards for teaching technological literacy:

• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Research and Information Fluency
• Critical Thinking, Prob. Solving and Decision Making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations and Concepts

In some ways, I don't think it will be too huge a task to implement all this. As the US becomes more technological, more options and devices will find their way into the classroom. For children who are growing up now, the internet, smart phones and all other high tech developments are as normal as pen, paper and calculators were for us. They are tools. It will be perfectly normal to use these to do schoolwork and homework.
Which doesn't mean that we shouldn't be extremely careful in how we teach these new skills. The generation that is growing up now is taking technology for granted and will probably use it for things that we haven't imagined yet. It is important that we teach children to use their tools appropriately and well.