The TEA progress report from 2006 to 2010 shows great strides we have made in our technology progression of teaching our children of today and tomorrow. The state, as a whole, is moving toward turning our classrooms into technology accessible environments. The main success to date is the 24/7 access to information for parents and students about the classrooms. Parents are now able to view grades and schoolwide information at any time of day, via their home computers. In many cases, teachers have active webpages that students and parents can find daily assignments or tutorials on skills missed in class. The state has moved in an educational progression where our textbooks k-12 can be accessed online from school or home, our teachers are completing professional development hours online, from the comfort of their own homes, and our students are spending time on computers in their classrooms meeting the technology TEKS by the 8th grade level.
The state has even made changes to the original documented plan for technology, however, according to the TEA the one thing that has stayed the same is, “the state’s blueprint for technology in education continues to manifest the belief that technology, applied to the practice of education, can be an effective tool to facilitate positive changes, and that technology can be used as a means of achieving the vision of an education system hallmarked by excellence and equity.” The progress report does not only state where we are now, but what the next step is to moving toward our state goal.
Texas Education Agency, (2010). 2010 progress report on the long-range plan for
technology, 2006-2020 Austin, Texas: Texas Education Agency. Retrieved from
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=5082&menu_id=2147483665es/default
/files/NETP-2010-final-report.pdf
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