Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Were you aware that our nation has an educational technology plan?

Perhaps you feel safer and more secure just knowing that the government has an educational technology plan.

Facetiousness aside, this is a report worth reading even if it mostly focuses on K-12. The 2016 plan is titled Future Ready Learning: Re-imagining the Role of Technology in Education. [http://tech.ed.gov/files/2015/12/NETP16.pdf ]and it is:

the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. The 2016 Plan articulates a vision of equity, active use, and collaborative leadership to make everywhere, all-the-time learning possible. While acknowledging the continuing need to provide greater equity of access to technology itself, the plan goes further to call upon all involved in American education to ensure equity of access to transformational learning experiences enabled by technology.

“This fourth report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency and are having an increasing effect on education.”

That’s how the Innovating Pedagogy 2015 [http://proxima.iet.open.ac.uk/public/innovating_pedagogy_2015.pdf ] report starts off. This is a report worth taking a look at if you are interested in exploring some new approaches to teaching – or at least some new methods being tested. Here are the ten innovations: