New Literacies, NETS for students, NETS for teachers

New Literacies allow us to identify important questions, navigate complex information to locate appropriate information, critically evaluate information, synthesize it to address questions and then communicate the answers to others. All of these compiled together help us to better gather and understand new information and then take that new information a step further by sharing it with others. The NETS for students are standards for evaluating skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world.  The NETS for teacher standards are standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work, and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society. In order to achieve these, students need to be able to use technology to analyze, learn and explore. These skills are crucial in today's world while not only being an expectation of those entering the working world but also being a requirement. In the same token, teachers must be up on the newest technology as well. This is in an effort to provide their students with the newest information while also staying up to date on new things themselves. Teachers must also have the ability of sharing new information with colleagues and other workers. Professional development for teachers would be one way to ensure knowledge and new learning for teachers who could then bring it back to develop in their own classrooms.