National Educational Technology Plan

To summarize the National Education Technology Plan of 2010 one must keep in mind that education is the foundation of American growth.  Only through working to achieve common goals in education will we be able to lay down the path to better economic and social promise.  There are goals that are defined in the National Education Technology Plan of 2010.  These goals provide a framework for our school districts and educators to follow.  These goals are:  Learning: Engage and Empower, Assessment:  Measure What Matters, Teaching:  Prepare and Connect, Infrastructure:  Access and Enable, and Productivity:  Redesign and Transform.  In short all of these goals mandate that educators integrate technology in their lessons.  This will give them the ability to educate 21^st century learners.  This will give their students the abilities and confidence to succeed the fast paced and ever changing world of technology.  These goals also ask that teachers become life-long learners themselves.  Our educators not only learn new technology as it becomes available, but they also must learn new and exciting ways to present this material.  One of the statements that I agree with in the Plan is “As we enter the second decade of the 21^st century there has never been a more pressing need to transform American education or a better time to act.”  This places the focus of teachers acting now.  The times of archaic classrooms techniques are gone.  Lesson plans that were used repeatedly for many years have to be replaced as new technology becomes available.  The time for complacency is behind us.  In order to move forward in today’s world teachers must become the front line for technology education to our children.