The 2010 National Education Technology Plan driven by Obama’s priorities to raise the proportion of college graduates and to close the achievement gap focuses on five essential goals. These goals include learning through engagement and empowerment, assessment that measures what matters, teaching that prepares and connects students, infrastructure that accesses and enables and productivity that redesigns and transforms our education system for educational attainment. The learning component of the plan determines what and how we teach, how students learn, where and when they learn and who needs to learn. It provides for access to information and resources 24/7, the creation and sharing of information, collaboration and acquiring of new knowledge, student expression in untraditional ways where students take control of their learning, critical thinking and problem solving, and multi-media communications. The plan provides for more online learning to reduce the number of students leaving high school without a diploma and unprepared for post-secondary education.
The mode of teaching involves facilitators and teams of collaborators replacing solo teachers as well as 24/7 teacher access to data analytical tools and resources to improve instructional practices. There is support for students in and out of school through resource accessibility. Parents have more access to assist with education.
Professional development involves both pre-service and in-service collaborative innovational learning and resource opportunities that support teacher professions.
Redesigning education through a collaborative force of stakeholders and locating leaders that are motivated to lead educators towards these advanced levels of technology integration may prove to be challenging.
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