National Educational Technology Plan

The national plan is based on a group of key principles: learning, assessing, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. Learning is engaging and empowering technology techniques based on standard-based concepts for students to use technology. Both students and teachers should have options for engaging in learning. Assessing is measuring what really matters on scenarios where students improve technological use to achieve goals, using data-driven assessments to achieve continuous improvements with technology. Teaching is preparing and connecting all the members of a particular campus with technology. Twenty-first century resources allow professional educators to be able to get access to the technology that enables connected teaching. Infrastructure provides access and enables always-on learning which is available for educators, students, and administrators regardless of their location or time of the day. To be able to change the productivity of education, there has to be a redesign and a transformation in the methods of education. Being able to rethink the basic assumptions, like the misconception of time-based or “seat-time” as a way to measure educational reach is a total misassumption for our technological era. How can the nation get started on all this basic key principals to get a better result of the usage of technology in education? First, districts need to identify what the initial placement is at the different campuses using data-driven assessment that can provide a better, more detailed set of results that can be used as a guide for a starting point. After this data is collected, administrators need to work on what is available for teachers and guides to obtain professional development according to the needs of the particular school, setting goals for teachers and students to reach in a certain amount of time. Finally, get help from other institutions to be able to acquire technology equipment to use within the schools to promote the program and to engage students to use it to achieve success.