The Plan

The National Educational Technology Plan: Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology calls for a change in what we are doing now as educators. The government want us to make lessons that are more engaging , relevant, and personalized learning to help students pre prepare for the future, this should not be something that we are not willing to do. There are five areas that are concentrated on in this plan which are: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The first area of learning concentrates on our need to revamp the classroom. Right now students communicate and network using technology and it is our current challenge to personalize lessons that are able to engage these students as well as mirror their daily lives while preparing them for their future. Assessments should be used to provide what is needed for data driven instruction. The assessments that we give our students should challenge them in all the aspects of a 21st century learner. The comprehensive infrastructure should be one that all resources and materials are available to whoever should need them at all times. Many of the technology resources are readily available at a cost efficient manner. Using technology and knowing what our economy is going through we need to teach our students to be more productive minded. Being able to accomplish tasks in a timely manner or even accomplish more than one task at once. To accommodate all of the areas that need to be concentrated on may cause the structuring of schools to be changed. As the world as changing like it is we have to learn to be flexible and prepare our students for their tomorrow which will involve a lot of technology and being able to reason through a content area.