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Educational Priorities:
- Support and training for teachers to effectively use computers.
- Access to computers for students and teachers in all classrooms.
- Connectivity to the internet for all classrooms.
- Curriculum integration with technology in classrooms. Impact on Education:
- With this being the first Educational tech. plan it set a nation precedent for plans to come.
- It encouraged skill development it showed that students needed to be read for the tech. in the 21st century. -
Education Priorities
- Ensuring that classrooms had up-to-date tech for teaching/learning
- Provide PD so that educators can use tech. effectively
- Building tech into lessons
- Ensuring all students have access to tech Educational Impact
- Increased integration of computer and internet in classrooms
- More PD for teachers on using tech effectively
- More online learning tools
- Building a foundation to later adopt virtual learning environments -
Educational Priorities
- Improving Academic Achievement in support of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act
- Making sure teachers and students have equal access to tech.
- Make sure that students were tech literate
- Researching and improving the use of tech in classrooms. Educational Impact:
- Improved access to tech for teachers and students.
- With the introduction of tech to classrooms came a negative impact, there wasn't much advocacy for students with disabilities. -
Cognitive Apprenticeship
- Teachers use modeling, coaching, scaffolding, and fading to guide and support students to gain independence
Thinking as a Learnable Skill
- Students haven't been taught how to think effectively, causing them to struggle
Metacognition
- Students learn to monitor their thinking while reflecting to become better learners
Classroom Implementation
- Teachers should reflect their students learning through transparency; focusing on dialogue, questioning, and justification -
The top priority in 2016 was making sure every student has access to technology for learning.
- Personalized Learning: Technology is used differently to help different needs
- Teacher Preparation: Educators are trained on technology.
- Assessments: Using technology as a tool to better learning assessments.
- Infrastructure: Creating detailed systems that encourage digital learning. -
Educational Priorities:
- Transforming how learning happens through increasing integration of tech use in teaching practices
- Supporting teachers' leadership in driving change in the classroom via tech use
- Focusing on using tech for more authentic and adaptive assessments increasing feedback that support learning Impact on Education and Learning:
- A shift from providing tech to now enhancing the tech students have access to and refining the technological experience given to students -
Educational Priorities:- Ensuring students' access to tech
- Empowering both teachers and students in use of tech
- Encouraging active and creative use of tech by teachers and students
- Opportunities to use better technology became more available for lower income students
- Increased depth of learning via a more active role of technology in the classroom
- Educators became more supported in using technology through greater training with tech