National Education Technology Draft Plan

This article outlines a technology learning model for American education to prepare for the 21st-century. The goals for the plan are for more application of advance technologies into our entire education system so that we can improve student learning, adopt effective practices, and use data for continuous improvement of school campuses. The National Educational Technology Plan identifies that the most essential feature of future U.S. education is to use technology to help educators follow a more differentiated and personalized student learning. The draft plan does highlight combining the Universal Design for Learning principals into the American education system to have more representation of ideas has well as support technological processes. One setback is that the draft plan includes students who are English language learners, low socio-economic, and/or at-risk students but the draft plan does not specifically mention helping our students with disabilities.

 

For my district, I believe barriers consist on our system's focus on excess standardized testing and many of our campuses lack student access to technology. We are beginning see more resources but still not enough where we can fully implement technology into the hands of every student. We use technology more of a learning support then making it student centered research/interaction.