The organization that I am analyzing has a very thorough and well thought out educational technology plan that is available on the district website. As far as a “district education plan,” though, I’m not sure that the district has one of these. The district has their mission statement and their LCAP goals, but I do not know that the district has a separate education plan that would be similar to the technology plan. This worries me because I feel like an educational agency needs to have a plan that outlines the educational goals they are working towards. Unfortunately, the focus of the entire district is on technology right now, which is probably why the time was taken to write a technology plan, but not a education plan.
Throughout our learning of EA, it has been made clear that educational goals and technology are tightly intertwined. If educational goals and technology goals go hand in hand then I don’t believe there should be separate plans for each set of goals. Isolating the technology goals in a separate technology plan detracts from the cohesiveness of how much technology and educational goals go together. Districts should combine these two plans and have on overall educational plan that integrates technology. This will demonstrate that technology is deeply woven into the educational plans of the district. The organization that I am analyzing already has a very detailed educational technology plan, so adding overall educational goals instead of only technology goals would be a good way to start moving toward the integration of the educational plan and technology plan.
Throughout our learning of EA, it has been made clear that educational goals and technology are tightly intertwined. If educational goals and technology goals go hand in hand then I don’t believe there should be separate plans for each set of goals. Isolating the technology goals in a separate technology plan detracts from the cohesiveness of how much technology and educational goals go together. Districts should combine these two plans and have on overall educational plan that integrates technology. This will demonstrate that technology is deeply woven into the educational plans of the district. The organization that I am analyzing already has a very detailed educational technology plan, so adding overall educational goals instead of only technology goals would be a good way to start moving toward the integration of the educational plan and technology plan.
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