The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP): Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology draft was released March 5th of this year. The plan is calling for action in educating America’s youth in technology so we can prosper and grow as a nation. The current administration is focused on achieving two goals through this plan. One is to increase the number of two and four-year degree college graduates to sixty percent of the American population. The second goal is to help everyone regardless of socio-economic standing to achieve a college education and lucrative career. These are considerable goals but can be achieved with everyone’s combined effort.
The NETP has developed five goals to achieve the goals set by the administration. These include goals in learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. Learning should not only be “engaging and empowering” but it should ready students to compete in a global economy not only ethically but also with wisdom and imagination. Assessment should be used to gage achievement and to calculate what really matters. Teachers should be connected and professionally developed to motivate successful learning. Learners and teachers should have 24/7 infrastructure in place to retrieve the information they need. Technology should be developed more advanced and reasonable requiring less investment of time and personnel.
We live in a global marketplace with the most advanced technologies available at our fingertips. There is no reason for America to be in the economic distress we are currently witnessing. We have access to the best educational institutions in the world yet we have just a mere thirty-nine percent of our population receiving this education. Through the achievement of the NETP goals, we should once again see America as the leading nation.
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