EDLD 5352 Week 2 Post #3

The document Tranforming American Education: Powered by Technology outlines the Obama Administration plan for the future of technology in the classroom. It describes the essential nature of growing technology to reach the most amount of students and increasing their preparation for the real world through skills learned in the classroom to support future uses of technology. Through the achievement of these goals this plan believes it can increase the amount of American who hold degrees from 2 and 4 year institutions to 60 percent up from its current rate of 39 percent. It also holds that American students can close the gap to becoming more prepared for college and jobs after graduation from public school systems. The plan specifies specific changes to Learning, Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure, and Productivity. Most of the issues and changes specified in this plan fall under the realm of "good teaching strategies" that all good teachers use anyways but the outline must be necessary for some to get the message to integrate their classrooms with the use of technology. The increased benefits will far outway any potential shortcomings. This plan I believes echos the voices of previous generations begging our youth to stay ahead of the curve and keep reaching for the next big thing. Our teachers need to be prepared to lead them into these new discoveries.