Dayona Evans
Ed tech
Professor Frick
1. As you read the Introduction to the National Education
Technology Plan, what did you determine to be the purpose of the National
Education Technology Plan? How does it affect teachers and students, people like
you and me? (feel free to be critical if you like).
The National Education Plan is a plan designed to get
Americans back to focusing on the importance of education and the benefits of
an educated society. The plan is to get
teachers and other adults in student’s life more engaged in supporting learning
systems that work properly for each student, also by offering a variety of
learning tools and other relevant tools to help students be more successful
thinkers. This would affect the way teachers have been taught to teach and the
way sttudents have been thought to learn. This new method is aimed to fulfill the
student more intellectually, mentally, and meaningfully by keeping them engaged
in their education.
2. As you read the Introduction to the National Education
Technology Plan (NETP), what were the main assumptions under which the plan was
developed? (you may copy and paste the
main assumptions, and then answer the question below in your own words).
What are some concerns administrators, educators, or even
students might have with these assumptions?
The plan is based on the following assumptions:
“Many of the failings of our education system stem from our
failure to engage the hearts and minds of students.
What students need to learn and what we know about how they
learn have changed, and therefore the learning experiences we provide should
change.
How we assess learning focuses too much on what has been
learned after the fact and not enough on improving learning in the moment.
We miss a huge opportunity to improve our entire education
system when we gather student-learning data in silos and fail to integrate the
information and make it broadly available to decision-makers at all levels of
our education system—individual educators, schools, districts, states, and the
federal government.
Learning depends on effective teaching, and we need to focus
on extended teams of connected educators with different roles who collaborate
within schools and across time and distance and who use technology resources
and tools to augment human talent.
Effective teaching is an outcome of preparing and
continually training teachers and leaders to guide the type of learning we want
in our schools.
Making engaging learning experiences and resources available
to all learners anytime and anywhere requires state-of-the-art infrastructure,
which includes technology, people, and processes that ensure continuous access.
Education can learn much from such industries as business
and entertainment about leveraging technology to continuously improve learning
outcomes while increasing the productivity of our education system at all
levels.
Just as in health, energy, and defense, the federal
government has an important role to play in funding and coordinating some of
the R&D challenges associated with leveraging technology to ensure the
maximum opportunity to learn.”
The issues people may have with this new system is the fact
that the way we teach, the traditional way even though it has been proved to be
failing in our societies many people students and teachers just aren’t open to
such a big change and we need to do this on a gradual level in order to prevent
chaos.
3. As you read the Executive Summary, the NETP presents a
model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five
essential areas. ( You may copy and paste the areas directly from the document
and then answer the question below in your own words).
What are the “21st century competencies” - see the section
titled “what and how people need to learn”- listed in the summary? How will
technology support the growth of these competencies?
- “Transferring
existing and emerging technology innovations from sectors such as
business, consumer, and entertainment into education.
- Transferring
appropriate developments from the Department of Defense Advanced Research
Projects Administration to the public education sector.
- Supporting
and sustaining the education R&D that is currently happening throughout
the National Science Foundation by designing a commercialization strategy.
- Creating
a new organization (the National Center for Research in Advanced
Information and Digital Technologies) with the mission of serving the
public good through R&D at the intersection of learning sciences,
technology, and education.
- Providing
competitive grants for scaling up innovative and evidence-based practices
through the Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund.”
21st-century competencies are such expertise as critical
thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication
should be woven into all content areas. Technology will support the growth of these
competencies by providing the proper tools in order to learn these methods
easily. Learning to use technology for education and learning is the tool we
need most in the 21st-centuray because we are in a new world and
technology is its map.
4. As you read The State of Ohio's Educational Technology
Plan's "purpose and mission" (page 6), how do you believe it aligns
with the National Education Technology Plan? In which respects are the two
plans perhaps not aligned? Why?
I think they both align in the way of focusing and
acknowledging that technology is the face of the future of education and making
sure that students and teachers will have access to the latest most advanced technology
to be used in the classroom to encourage learning. The plans differ in the fact
that Ohio’s specific plan focuses more on students while in school whereas the
National plan focuses on education in technology for life and as a tool to be
used through-out life in all aspects.
5. As you read Ohio’n w s State Educational Technology Plan
outlined on page 8, how do you believe this outline aligns with the "model
of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five
essential areas" proposed by the National Education Technology Plan? In which areas are the two plans perhaps not
aligned? Why?
They both align in the way that they both focus on ways to
overcome technology education barriers. They differ in the fact that the Ohio’s
plan focuses on schools only whereas the National plan focuses on other aspects
of institutions in our everyday life such as places of business also having the
most advanced technology tools.
6. As you read Ohio’s State Educational Technology Plan's
"measurements of success" (page 16), what barriers do you see to
fulfilling this plan? Provide four reasons why it may not be possible to reach
these "measurements of success" in the state of Ohio.
The main barriers I see are;
1. Getting institutions
to get the materials and the instructors
who are educated in the educational technology field to teach the material to
the students.
2. I think students and parents may be less inclined to
learn classwork online and not in a traditional school, because school is a
place children go to be social with their peers and it would be more difficult
to achieve this with online classes
3. I think the methods used to grade online work versus
traditional classwork may play a role in why online teaching and learning will
be less effective. Breaks have to be given to an extent when a person is
learning online because not being there to have that one on one direction may
lead to a misunderstanding in course work and completion.
4. I think getting
advance technology tools in the class may be a challenge due to many issues. The
poorer school districts may not get the most advanced technology their students
need in order to learn successfully through education or the supplies may be
limited. Also technical tools break easily and it may be discouraged from being
used because they are pricey to maintain.
