National Educational Technology Plan

After reviewing the National Educational Technology Plan I now realize this is the base information that nationwide technology plans are based on.  This is a powerful plan that seeks to transform the education system.   The plan is based around learning with technology and centers around five areas. These areas include: learning, assessment, teaching, productivity, and infrastructure. The learning structure will change to one of personalized learning used to engage and empower the learner. This will happen through the use of new technologies.  Assessment will be an ongoing model to use technology data to diagnose and change instruction to improve student learning. The area of teaching will be a model to fully connect teachers to new technology systems. The teachers will build online learning communities where teaching will become a team activity.  The system for teachers is to evolve to have more advanced technology resources for the educator including professional learning environments.  Productivity will be improved by making fundamental structural changes to technology. This improvement in productivity will require all levels of institutions across the nation to work together to provide equitable access to learning experiences.  Finally, the last area of focus is on the infrastructure.  A comprehensive infrastructure is required to achieve the goals of the technology based learning model.  The development of online learning communities and content will be important to achieving these goals. Infrastructure will need to be available both in school and out of the classroom. This will include infrastructure that will integrate computer hardware, networks, data, software, connections, support, and maintenance to transform teaching. All of these areas improving together will work towards transforming the education system to educate the new 21^st century learners.

References:

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, Washington, D.C., 2010.