Eastside+Other+Announcements

=**Eastside Chapter - FYI**= = =


 * [|21st Century Learning Skills]** - Symposium was held October 25th at NAU.


 * [|ETAN EdTech Action Network] -** Please promote this site. use your Zip Code to electronically email your opinion of various EdTech legislation to your respresentatives.

Proposal: An invitation to all interested educators, administrators, legislators, and parents to a Four Corners meeting to discuss the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T)
 * __4 Corners NETS Day__ -** Hold the Date - (Tentative - **January 11th, 8:30 - 5:00 pm, ASU**)

The **Arizona** Technology in Education Alliance (AzTEA), **New Mexico** Society for Technology in Education (NM-STE) **Colorado** affiliate (TBA) and **Utah** (TBA) invites you to join us for a four corners meeting on Friday, January 11 to discuss the NETS-S, NETS-T. We will also explore advocacy issues of mutual interest.

During this meeting we will discuss the release of the new National Educational Technology Standards for Students, explore advocacy issues of mutual interest, and participate on in a town hall on the development of the new NETS for teachers.


 * Purpose**

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the impact of the new NETS-S standards and how we might incorporate them into state standards and assess students on attaining the standards, discover how the four states might work together on advocacy issues of mutual interests, and to host a town hall on the development of the new NETS for teachers.