Cyber Study Skills addresses the benchmark standards for technology skills, as suggested by the Oregon Educational Technology Consortium. These benchmark standards are designed to assist students in developing the skills they need to successfully enter the workforce or go on to higher education, by augmenting their learning and enhancing their productivity.

OETC Technology Standards

• Use technology to create age-appropriate curriculum-based products
• Use technology to gather, organize, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate data
• Students will use existing and emerging technologies responsibly and appropriately

Cyber Study Skills also addresses the NETS, or National Educational Technology Standards. The National Educational Technology Standards are downloadable in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format from the Milken Foundation.

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), Grade 9–12 Performance Indicators

• Identify capabilities and limitations of contemporary and emerging technology resources and assess the potential of these systems and services to address personal, lifelong learning, and workplace needs.
• Make informed choices among technology systems, resources, and services.
• Analyze advantages and disadvantages of widespread use and reliance on technology in the workplace and in society as a whole.
• Demonstrate and advocate for legal and ethical behaviors among peers, family, and community regarding the use of technology and information.
• Use technology tools and resources for managing and communicating personal/professional information (e.g., finances, schedules, addresses, purchases, correspondence).
• Evaluate technology-based options, including distance and distributed edcuation, for lifelong learning.
• Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publications, communications, and productivity.
• Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making in content learning.
• Investigate and apply expert systems, intelligent agents, and simulations in real-world situations.
• Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works.