The Teaching and Learning area of the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology has a broad vision that affects today's learners. With the current legislation, all students are required to be technology savy by the end of their middle school year. Having educators align curriculum to support students technology aquisition is essential.
In order for us to prepare our students for the global society they have to operate in then they must have access to technology all day every day. There is also a big push for collaborative learning and the ability to solve problems in those groups is a real world skill students must acquire before they move on to the next stage; the "real world." Educators must follow research based plans and goals to increase student achievment.
After analyzing schools in my district, I discovered that more then 50% of the schools were at the Developing Technology standards. The majority of campuses show to be in the Developing Technology level progress. The trend conclusively in the area of Teaching and Learning is at the Developing Technology level, consequently strides are being made to move up to the Advanced Technology level because ultimately thats where all school districts want to be.
Commitment and work is neede to acheive school districts goal of being at the desired level of technology. It is my recommendation that if my school district want to achieve this they must in the next year budget for every student to have access to their own indidual IPAD or a Samsung Galaxy TAB so they can have that desired result can be achieved. Training will certainly be needed for support staff, techers, administrators, librarians and specialists in order to support the education process of these new technologies.
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