NETS

National Educational Technology Standards is another model of "Digital-Age" that focuses on 'using technology to learn and teach'. Its goal is to help educators to improve teaching and learning. It proved to be very helpful for both teachers and students as well!.

Teachers apply the NETS for students by assessing students and engaging them, designing, implementing new techniques to improve the learning experience. By using the NETS, teachers's goal is to 'provide positive models for students, colleagues, and the community'. In this respect, teachers play the role of a facilitator and inspirors to students so that they can learn and be creative. It is by engaging students, supporting them and guiding them through a positive use of the digital tools and resources that teachers themselves can create a positive learning environment. Also, teachers are supposed to assess students by designing and developing 'Digital-Age' learning experiences. In addition, teachers should demonstrate a certain level of technological fluency in order to facilitate the use of new technology by students. They should collaborate with their students whenever they may need their help. It is also the teachers' responsibility to engage students socially and culturally through the use of digital-age communication and collaborartion tools. Moreover, teachers should be engaged themselves in "Professional Growth and Leadership" i.e they should participate, evaluate and contribute in the effectiveness of the teaching profession not only of their school, but of the community as a whole.

Students, on the other hand should be creative and innovative by applying the acquired technical knowledge so that they can come up with new models to explore, discover more complex works and issues. They should be able to use the digital media to communicate, collaborate, contribute, develop, produce and solve problems. It is also necessary for students to lead research and be fluent in gathering data by applying digital tools. This would for sure stimulate their critical thinking and make them able to solve problems and make decisions. They also become able to understand social, cultural and human issues related to technology. In other words, by applying technological tools in most of the educational fields, students demonstrate a wider understanding of technological and systematic concepts, and this will help them use their current knowledge of technology to learn more effective tools of new technology.