The National Education Technology Plan (NETP) provides a vision for transforming American education through technology. It sets goals in five areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The plan aims to individualize education, improve teacher collaboration, and better prepare students for further education and careers through innovative uses of technology.

1. Overview of the National
Education
Technology Plan 2010
Natasha Reid
21 Century Instructional
Technology Models

2. National Education Technology Plan
The National Education Technology Plan (NETP) provides:
■ Vision for how technology can help transform American
education
■ Set of concrete goals to inform state and local educational
technology plans, as well as recommendations to inspire
research, development, and innovation

3. Executive Summary
Goals of NETP 2010 :
■ Fundamentally change the learning process
to focus on individualized and differentiated
Technology
education
■ Use technology in the next generation of
assessments Teachers
■ Connect teachers with peers and experts
Education
■ Build infrastructure to support access
■ Harness the power of technology to become
more productive

4. Executive Summary
Purpose of NETP 2010:
Utilize the immense potential of technology to:
■ Prepare students to succeed and compete in the global economy
■ Provide path to good jobs and higher earning power
■ Foster collaboration, problem solving and the sharing of resources
“By 2020, America will once again have the highest
proportion of college graduates.”
President Barack Obama,
Address to Congress, February 24, 2009

5. Introduction
Transform education system to:
■ Have clear outcomes
■ Include collaborative redesign and standard structure of processes
■ Institute continuous monitoring and measuring of performance
■ Promote accountability for progress and results of the processes
■ Increase number of college graduates to 60% by 2020
■ Prepare students for college and careers

6. Introduction
Improve:
■ Student achievement, build partnerships, develop leaders and
provide flexibility for innovation
Improvement achieved through:
■ Setting strategic goals and benchmarking
■ Establishing a cohort of leaders and educators
■ Building and enhancing core competencies for teachers
■ Creating a foundation to sustain current and future growth

7. The Five Goals of NETP 2010
The NETP includes five goals with recommendations that address
the essential components of learning powered by technology:
Learning Assessment Teaching Infrastructure Productivity

8. Goal: Learning
Learning: Engage and Empower
All learners will have engaging and empowering learning
experiences both in and out of school that prepare them to be active,
creative, knowledgeable, and ethical participants in our globally
networked society.
Recommendations:
■ Revise and create standards and learning objectives that
incorporate technology and 21st century requirement/needs
■ Utilize the flexibility and convenience of technology

9. Goal: Learning
Recommendations [cont.]
■ Enhance learning by developing,
adopting and evaluating
technology learning resources
that use design principles from the
learning sciences
■ Leverage the power of technology to
provide and adopt personalized
learning methodologies that will
enable all learners to excel

10. Goal: Assessment
Assessment: Measure What Matters
Our education system at all levels will leverage the power of
technology to measure what matters and use assessment data for
continuous improvement.
Recommendations:
■ Revise practices and policies to ensure security of information
while enabling assessments that include continuous
improvement and gathering of data on student learning
■ Involve multiple stakeholders in the process of designing,
conducting, and using assessment

11. Goal: Assessment
Recommendations [cont.]:
■ Adopt technology tools that will assist in identifying strengths
and weaknesses in student performance and enable teachers
to proactively develop a plan to address individual student
needs

12. Goal: Teaching
Teaching: Prepare and Connect
Professional educators will be supported individually and in teams
by technology that connects them to data, content, resources,
expertise, and learning experiences that can empower and inspire
them to provide more effective teaching for all learners.
Recommendations:
■ Utilize technology resources to create opportunities for
educators to collaborate and create a model of connected
teaching that provides access to various resources
■ Provide professional development opportunities that afford for
continuous growth and development of skills

13. Goal: Teaching
Recommendations [cont.]:
■ Develop technologically proficient teachers that are
knowledgeable of ways in which they can utilize the power of
technology to reach students at their individual learning level

14. Goal: Infrastructure
Infrastructure: Access and Enable
All students and educators will have access to a comprehensive
infrastructure for learning when and where they need it.
Recommendations:
■ Ensure that students and educators have access to: people,
processes, learning resources, policies, and broadband
connectivity, servers, and software, both inside and outside of
school
■ Leverage educational resources and accelerate the development
of technology based tools and courses

15. Goal: Productivity
Productivity: Redesign and Transform
Our education system at all levels will redesign processes and
structures to take advantage of the power of technology to improve
learning outcomes while making more efficient use of time, money,
and staff.
Recommendations:
■ Design, implement and evaluate technology-powered programs to
ensure that students are prepared for the workplace and citizenship
■ Develop standard for measuring and improving productivity of
education system to meet goals for educational attainment within a
set budget

16. Goal: Productivity
Recommendations [cont.]:
■ Leverage technology to plan, manage, monitor, and report
spending that will provide decision-makers with a complete view
of the financial performance of education system

17. R&D: Innovative and Scale
New approach to R&D for education that focuses on:
■ Providing competitive grants for scaling up innovative and
evidence-based practices through the Department of Education's
Investing in Innovation Fund (i3)
■ Transferring existing and emerging technology innovations from
such sectors as consumer, business, and entertainment into
education
■ Supporting and sustaining the education R&D that is currently
happening at the National Science Foundation

18. R&D: Innovative and Scale
New approach to R&D for education that focuses on
[cont.]:
■ Creating a new organization with the mission of serving the public
good through R&D at the intersection of learning sciences,
technology, and education

19. R&D: Innovative and Scale
■ Identification of "grand challenge problems"- which are
problems that establish a community of experts to work
together towards finding a solution. For example:
o Establishing an integrated, end-to-end real-time
system for managing learning outcomes and
costs across our entire education system at all
levels."

20. Summary of NETP 2010
■ Develop and incorporate: assessment, learning, teaching,
infrastructure and productivity, as the essential
components of learning powered by technology
■ Focus on more individualized and differentiated education
for each student
■ Establish continuous learning communities, social networks,
information and communications tools for educators

21. Summary of NETP 2010
■ Implement new learning model where students are learning
from teachers, mentors, coaches, and parents
■ New model provides for:
o Students mastering both content and procedural learning
o Teachers teaching and learning new skills collaboratively
and continuously