National Educational Technology Plan

On March 5, 2010 the National Educational Technology Plan rough draft was published because of the Obama administration.  The current administration believes education has become an urgent priority driven by two goals:

• to raise the proportion of college graduates from 39% to 60% of our population holding a 2-year or 4-year degree
• to close the achievement gap so that all students  graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers by 2020.

The NETP calls for revolutionary transformation of schools to provide personalized learning instead of a one-size-fits-all curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional practices by using technology. The NETP identifies five goals to address learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity.   The 21^st century educators will teach in  community teams that are connected 24/7, instead of solo classrooms.

 According to the plan, students need to be assessed continuously with more project related teaching that involves technology across sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics.  This will provide opportunity to create engaging, relevant, and personalized learning experiences for all learners  using  higher levels of thinking skills.

The model comprehensive infrastructure includes people, processes, learning resources, policies, and sustainable models for continuous improvement in addition to broadband connectivity, servers, software, management systems, and administration tools to bring together teaching teams and students anywhere in the world together.  

Technology can enable transforming education into learning environment; therefore, changing the 21^st schools to learning all year which will increase the required funding for schools. Teachers will adjust instruction by reorganizing teaching for all students