The plan has set goals to improve education with technology to better equip American children skills for lifelong learning and economic success. Technology with respect to teaching, “Recommendation: Revise, create, and adopt standards and learning objectives for all content areas that reflect 21st century expertise and the power of technology to improve learning.”(Page 39) The overall goal for learners is put forth on (page 25) “Goal: All learners will have engaging and empowering learning experiences both in and outside of school that prepare them to be active, creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in our globally networked society.” The key encompassing goal for professional development will be connected learning, and have teacher educators experience that themselves. My reflection on the National Education Technology Plan is that one has to search through 75% of the material that is of little or no consequence to retrieve the 25% that truly useful information. This document is 114 pages and in my opinion it could be reduces to 30 pages and convey the ideas and principles that technology will play in the future of public education in American. We all know the issue when committees meet, egos must be stroked and all parties have to have their say in the final document. I can only wonder just how large this document was before it was revised down to 114 pages. I conclusion, there is no doubt we need a plan going forward with technology and its key role in education, but make it one that every stakeholder no matter their current education level can understand.
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