National+Educational+Technology+Plan

=**National Educational Technology Plan**=

**What is it?**
The National Education Technology Plan (NETP) is a plan that calls for taking technology that we use every day in our personal and professional lives and applying it to the education system in order to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and to use data and information for continuous improvement.

This plan has five goals, which address one of the five essential components of learning powered by technology:
 * 1) Learning: Having engaging and empowering learning experiences in and out of school that prepare learners to be active, creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in the global networked society that we live in.
 * 2) Assessment: All levels of the education system will use technology to measure what matters and use the assessment data for improvement.
 * 3) Teaching: Educators will have individual and team support by using technology that connects them to data, content, resources, expertise, and learning experiences that can inspire them to provide more effective teaching techniques for all learners.
 * 4) Infrastructure: Students and educators will have access to technology for learning when and where they need it.
 * 5) Productivity: All levels of the education system will redesign processes and structures to be able to use technology to improve learning while making more efficient use of time, money, and staff.

**In the Educational Setting**
It is hard to see how this plan does not fit in the educational setting. The NETP recognizes that technology is at the basis of just about everything we do in our daily lives and work. It is now necessary to use technology to engage students because their lives are full of it. By using technology in the classroom, we are empowering students to take control of their own learning. The technology used could be blogs, Wikis, webquests, ipads, etc. The hope is that students will use these tools to take on real-world problems. Teachers are an important commodity for this project because they are the ones who implement the technology and teach their students how to use technology in the correct way.

Here's a video that may answer some of your questions about the NETP: media type="youtube" key="ATlvkklmvqU" height="315" width="560"

For more information, please visit: National Educational Technology Plan 2010

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