Long Range Plan Findings

The Long Range Plan for Technology was an interesting read. I am a technology teacher at my campus and have heard many of the things that are in this plan. One of the most interesting things is that the students, teachers and parents will have access to learning tools and technology 24/7. I believe this can do nothing but enhance the learning experience for everyone involved.

This plan also states that students need to be treated as individual learners and that the classroom is not treated as a "one-size fits all" learning environment anymore. I believe that technology has the ability to conform to this statement. We have a student that has dyslexia and he uses technology to help with his learning. We are just into the third six weeks and he has shown tremendous improvement in the way he learns.

The teacher voices section was interesting to me because of the statistics that were given. I found that theses statistics match up to what is going on in my classroom and campus. I agree with these statistics because I believe that technology has a huge impact on the way are students learn and communicate.

What I also found interesting in this plan was the findings that the ETAC had identified. For the most part, their findings stated that there is a need for funding or discounts. This holds very true in that technology is very expensive. With technology changing every day, there is a need for updating and maintaining the technology to keep up with the real world which can also become expensive.