National Perspective
In our increasingly global marketplace, how to effectively prepare our kids to compete in a 21st-century economy is the crucial question facing education in America. As job outsourcing continues to increase, students of today need to learn to be conceptual, creative thinkers. In addition, schools of today need to be different than traditional schools of yesterday. Technology plays a key role in changing our schools and the ways that teachers teach and students learn.
This section includes the following documents that illustrate the importance of educational technology from a national and state perspective.
State Educational Technology Directors Association