The ISTE - National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and Performance Indicators for Teachers by International Society for Technology in Education

Ultimately, what I've gotten from this publication is reinforcement of standards more fully fleshed out elsewhere.  In particular, though, I was struck by the expectation that teachers will, "demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations."  I immediately reflected on how commonplace it has become for us, as educators or simply as adults, to abdicate our role as experts and authorities the minute a new technology comes into the picture.  I believe throughout history many teachers have rejected new approaches and philosophies, but I'll bet we'd be hard-pressed to find a time when educators fully acknowledged the importance of a tool while laughing off any responsibility to learn to use it so as to teach it to students.  We do that all the time when we ignore our students' abilities and interest in new technologies.  Gotta be at least one chapter ahead, a mentor teacher once told me, and that means with technology as well, hard as it is to accomplish.