The document outlines key points from a national education technology plan, including that technology can improve learning outcomes cost effectively when embraced by teachers. It aims to increase access to education, foster 21st century skills, and provide vision to states on improving education through technology. Specific goals include engaging students, assessing what matters, preparing teachers, ensuring infrastructure access, redesigning processes, and leading the world in education through technology innovations.

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2.  key Points:
o Technology offers education cost effective ways to
improve learning outcomes for students
o Teachers must embrace technology
“innovation, prompt implementation, regular
evaluation, and continuous improvement.”
o The need for leaders throughout our education
system to understand the role of technology and that
it is the core of all we do

3.  To develop an education system that will:
o Increase access to education all over the US
o Foster ICT Skills
• Prepare students for success in the competitive global
economy
• Promote lifelong learning strategies
o To provide a vision to states, districts, and other stakeholders
as to how to improve American education
o To present a model of 21st century learning powered by
technology

4.  Learning: Engagement and Empower
 Assessments :Measure what Matters
 Teaching :Prepare and Connect
 Infrastructure: Access and Enable Productivity
 Productivity: Redesign and Transform

5.  GOAL:
All learners will have engaging and empowering learning
experiences that prepare them to be
active, creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in
our globally networked society.”

6.  Determine how students learn e.g.
blogs, collaboration, etc.
 Emphasis should be placed on
personalized, differentiated and individualized learning
 Ensure students have 21st Century Skills
 Universal Design for Learning Framework

7.  GOAL:
Our education system will leverage the power of
technology to measure what matter and use assessment
information for continuous improvement.”

8.  "I'm calling on our nation's governors and state
education chiefs to develop standards and assessments
that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a
bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century
skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and
entrepreneurship and creativity."
—President Barack Obama,
Address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, March 10, 2009

9.  Embedded assessments i.e. simulations, collaboration
environments, virtual worlds, games and cognitive tutors
 Technology based assessments that combined cognitive
research and theory
 Feedback about student learning to improve
achievement and instructional practices.
 Tools and training—that can help manage the
assessment process, analyze relevant information
 Adaptive Assessment- Facilitates Differentiated Learning

10.  Why use Technology Based Assessments?
• Enable us to assess how well students
communicate for a variety of purposes and in a
variety of ways, including in virtual environments
• We can use them to assess what students learn
outside school walls and hours as well as inside.
• It supports measuring performance that cannot be
assessed with conventional testing formats
• Helps improve learning and assessments

11.  What impact does Technology have on
Assessments?
o Technology Speeds Development and Testing of New
Assessments
o Technology Enables Broader Involvement in Providing Feedback
o Technology Could Reduce Test Taking for Accountability Only (it
is possible to reduce the number of external assessments
needed to audit the education system’s quality.
o Technology allows assessments using Universal Design for
Learning principles that make assessments more
accessible, effective, and valid for students with disability and
English language capability.

12.  GOAL:
“Professional educators will be supported individually and
in teams by technology that connects them to
data, content, resources, expertise, and learning
experiences that can empower and inspire them to provide
more effective teaching for all learners.”

13.  What Connected/Online means ? Figure 1. Connected Teaching Builds New
Competencies and Expertise
o Teachers are connected to their
students and to professional
content, resources, and systems
o Educators are able to motivate and
personalized learning
o Educators create their own learning
communities
o Teachers are more effective
o Teachers manage multiple dimensions
of curricular instruction
o Professional learning that is
collaborative, coherent, and
continuous and that blends more
effective in-person courses and
workshops

14.  GOAL:
“All students and educators will have access to a
comprehensive infrastructure for learning when and where
they need it.”

15.  24/7 Access to data from multiple sources while ensuring
appropriate levels of security and privacy
 Broadband Everywhere
 Multiple Access Points- adequate wireless connectivity
 E-Rate provisions and CIPA requirements (filters)
 Supported - the development and use of open educational
resources to promote innovative and creative opportunities
 Human Talent and Scaling Expertise

16.  GOAL
“The education system at all levels will redesign
processes and structures to take advantage of the
power of technology to improve learning outcomes
while making more efficient use of time, money, and
staff.”

17.  Cost Efficiency and Cost Savings Strategies - states
and districts should adopt common cost-accounting
standards for benchmarking and analyzing costs
 Process redesigns that takes advantage of the impact
and power of technology for improving performance and
increasing productivity.

18.  How can Technology support the reorganization?
o By enabling more flexible student-centered
scheduling
o By facilitating the implementation of competency-
based approach to education. (students earn credit
for graduation by demonstrating their competence
with respect to the standards stipulated by their
school districts)

19. How do we achieve our goal of leading the
world in education?
 Provide Competitive grants to schools and non profit
organizations for innovations to improve k-12 education
 Transfer current technology innovations from
consumer, business and entertainment sectors to
education
 Support education Research and Developmental that is
occurring at the National Science Foundation

20.  What is the Purpose of The National Center for Research and Digital
Technologies?
o Promote transparency and Private and Public collaboration with the
best industry minds
o Interoperability Standards
o Identify key research and development challenges
o Identify Key emerging Trends
o individual project share developments, progress, best practices, and
outcomes with each other
o Show the feasibility of innovative tools, content, and pedagogies that
leverage knowledge, information, and technology advances at the

21.  National Education Technology Plan 2010
o http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/netp2010.pdf

22.  “Knowing how to use technology and knowing how to
use it for teaching are extremely different skills.”
~ Barry Fishman is an Associate Professor of Learning
Technologies in the University of Michigan School of Education
and School of Information