Education Week (10/9, Quillen) reported that the US Department of Education on Tuesday unveiled the final version of its National Education Technology Plan. According to the plan, the Education Department "intends to pay for research to study online professional-collaboration communities for teachers and other educators." In addition, the administration will "launch an initiative dedicated to defining and increasing educational productivity." Also, "the creation of a national online-learning registry" that was first announced in July is included in the plan, which aims "to improve teaching, assessment, learning, and educational infrastructure through Web 2.0 technologies, such as social networking." Education Week notes, however, that "Any proposals requiring new federal funding could face a difficult political climate on Capitol Hill," because the new House majority will likely "push for cuts in discretionary federal spending."
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Education Department Releases Finalized National Technology Plan
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One of my favorite things about the 2010 Nat'l Ed Tech Plan is the section on improved approaches to assessment. The document features a bunch of great real life cases of technology being used to facilitate assessments that go well beyond the traditional test based approaches. I wrote this article which reviews a number of these back in September: http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/09/5-examples-of-improved-approaches-to-assessment-from-the-2010-netp-draft/. I hope readers find this informative.
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