Long Range Plan For Technology (2006-2020)

The goal of this plan is to implement the use of technology into the classrooms in order to meet unique individual students' needs. After reading the assigned sections, I found the following statement(s) very awakening,

“In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did.
China graduates twice as many students with bachelor’s degrees as the U.S., and they have six
times as many graduates majoring in engineering.”

Source: Thomas Friedman The World Is Flat

We are aiming to get our students through school, but what about after school? How well are we preparing them for the workforce? We are living in a digital-technological world where much can be conversed via email, blogs, text messaging, online learning, discussion boards, web conferencing and so forth, how much of this is being done in our own school? School leaders have this written plan and they need to share it with all teachers so that we all truly have the same vision. School leaders should also model these technology strategies or teachings for us, or more yet, allow them in school, to increase student achievement, motivation, and engagement. Another interesting view is that the minority ethnicity is growing and you sit to realize that some of these students will never get the opportunity to learn outside the school they are in due to their background. One opportunity as educators that we can provide for them is to offer distance learning or online learning so that they can communicate and collaborate with others from different communities.