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The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.

The LoTi implementation model offers a systems approach to improved student achievement using 21st Century teaching. The model is comprised of four stages ~ Assess, Plan, Implement, Sustain

Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world.

The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.

Thousands of educators participated in efforts to refresh the NETS. ISTE thought it would be valuable to tap that enthusiasm, experience, and knowledge again to develop implementation resources for the NETS*S! This page is dedicated to educators who want to develop and share exemplary lesson plans. ISTE is posting pdfs of the lesson plans that you submit by grade level. Please use the navigation bar to view submitted lesson plans. NEW! Educators are beginning to submit NETS-aligned lesson plans. They are pdfs in the Grade Level pages. See below for instructions for submitting your own lessons!

These videos provide excerpts of lessons that demonstrate the effective integration of technology in the classroom learning environment and highlight strategies that contribute to student learning that can lead to mastery of the NETS*S.