The National Education Technology Plan is a plan put together by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Technology that focuses on two long terms goals. The first goal is to raise the number of college graduates from where it is currently at. The second goal is to basically have students ready for life after graduating high school. This plan is composed together of 5 major components: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure and productivity. Component 1, learning, is basically stating that technology should be used in all content areas. Component 2, assessment, is measuring what student knows and improving on it. Component 3, teaching, show how teachers should prepare and find relevant ways to become better educators. Component 4, infrastructure, talks how district needs to maintain a comprehensive framework for both student and educator. Component 5, productivity, shows how a district should maximize their use of technology but being financially responsible in doing so.
One of the major things that concerned about this plan was the fact that it had talked about both federal and states reducing revenue for the future. This is worrisome to me only because that it takes money to implement many of the ideas that are thrown out there. If the cash stops coming in, then how can we plan to meet this our goals as mentioned earlier? From just talking to students and parents, it seems like the idea of going to college is being pushed to the back burner. If that trend rises, then we need to make sure that our high school graduates are receiving the proper tools to find a skill or trade to help them better succeed in the workforce.
Adan Andres Chavez EDLD 5306 September 2, 2011
National Education Technology Plan 2010 . (n.d.). ed.gov. Retrieved September 2, 2011, from www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010
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