Technologies Potential for Learning
Executive Office of the President Department of Education
A New Foundation for 21st Century Learning Education Technology Investments in the 2011 Budget
Highlighting the role of technology in educating the next generation. The strategy outlined the role that educational technology could play to improve our quality of life and establish the foundation for the industries and jobs of the future. For example:
Online learning can allow adults that are struggling to balance the competing demands of work and family to acquire new skills, and compete for higher wage jobs, at a time, place and pace that is convenient for them. It can also improve access to a quality education for students in underserved areas. Digital tutors can provide every student with immediate feedback and personalized instruction, providing them with the information needed to diagnose and correct errors, and providing challenging instruction. Digital learning environments can generate a large volume of data that, if analyzed properly, will support “continuous improvement” by providing rich feedback to learners, teachers, curriculum designers, and researchers in the field of learning science and technology.
As Technology teacher there is much to love in the above statements-but there is alway cause to be careful. A video tutorial cannot look into a students eyes and tell if they are havig a bad day or not. We still need those wonderful teacher USING technology as a tool to teach. Lets not allow the human touch to be removed from education simply because its cheaper.
