5306/5311 - Week 2: Posting #3 – National Educational Technology Plan

The National Education Plan has five goals that are meant to help advance student learning and use data to help understand where the areas of improvement are. The areas covered include Learning Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure and Productivity (NETP). These five goals will allow school districts to be able to make student learning better, upgrade the technology that the students are required to use as well as gather data necessary to understand the areas of improvement that is needed.

Under the category of Learning, the plan puts into place the goal of allowing all learners the chance to have familiarity while in school and out of school that can train them to participate in the global network dynamically, imaginatively and morally.

The Teaching category introduces the idea that teachers will work alone and together on a panel where technology is the correlation. They will be provided with understanding, content and resources that will authorize the lessons they teach to be efficient and successful. Teachers will also need the tools given through professional development in order to continue their teaching in an informed and able to be connected to others in their field. The professional development that they need to receive will enable them to become confident in using technology, able to solve issues that arise as well as inspired and inspiring.

When discussing Infrastructure, this plan makes room for every student and every educator to be able to access a complete infrastructure that is always available to them.  The infrastructure that is needed must be able to allow access anywhere anytime 24/7-365. The capability of the infrastructure will also be required to provide security and privacy for the users.

The concerns I have about how this plan is to work deals with getting the basic infrastructure working. The economy is getting to a point where it cannot really be expected to be able to handle such a plan. From my experience, we have already lost so much money per school that it will be really difficult to expect such a plan to work in an area like ours. If the infrastructure is not there, the rest will struggle to come to life.

Bibliography

National Education Technology Plan 2010 . (n.d.). Retrieved March 7, 2012, from ED.gov: http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010