National Educational Technology Plan
On March 5, 2010 the U.S. Department of Education released a draft of the National Educational Technology Plan. This plan was titled “Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology” and the plan describes how information and communication technologies can help transform American Education. The National Educational Technology Plan focuses on five areas. These five areas are learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and producitivity. There are two educational goals that have been set by the Obama Administration. These two goals consist of increasing the number of individuals holding a two or four degree to 60% of the population, while the second goal is to close achievement gaps between students so that students from all backgrounds and walks of life will graduate from high school being prepared to further their education in either a career or college courses.
The National Educational Technology Plan focuses on tailoring education to meet the needs of a variety of students in lieu of a one-size fits all educational approach. This plan encourages the use of technology and collaboration. The plan suggests that we use everyday technology to incorporate learning. This Report stresses the need for education to be individualized, personalized and differentiated. Tailoring lessons for the individual needs and interests of our students will create more future success in the world of education.
In order to meet the goals of the National Educational Technology Plan, we must provide and participate in useful professional development sessions. With constatnly changing technology, we must prepare ourselves as educational leaders so that we can convey needed information to our students. In this day and time, teachers need constant internet accesss inside their school classroom. We also need tools to help us break down data so that we can determine ares in which we need to focus for future improvement.
This particular report is similar to other reports viewed during this assigment. Taking a look at so much information related to technology, the use of technology and goals associated with technology allows us to know where we stand at this time and where we should be in the future. At this time, funding may hold us back when it comes to making techonological advances. We may not have the means to keep moving forward in the world of technology. When there are no available financial resources our technology advancements will be at a stand still.
Information Retrieved From:
http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
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