It is the season for all sorts of predictions for the upcoming year. The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) offers the following:
- Establishing technology “as the backbone of school improvement” for student learning, professional development, and administration;
- Integrating technology to prepare students for careers and keep students engaged;
- Increasing federal funding support for technology through Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT);
- Keeping educators up to date on the latest technologies to help them be more effective in their teaching environments;
- Increasing support for pre-service education technology programs to help produce more technologically adept teachers;
- Using technology to “scale improvement” and “accelerate reform”;
- Ensuring universal access to broadband services, which ISTE described as “critical so that students and parents have access to school assignments, grades, announcements and resources”;
- Developing systems and strategies that will help educators use assessment data to improve student learning;
- Investing in research and development focused on “innovation in teaching and learning”; and
- Promoting “global digital citizenship” through technology-based, cross-border collaboration.
