The first article is about the “National Education Technology Plan” presented by the Education Department in 2010. The plan is a model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. This plan is an answer to the demands of the global economy that is telling what people needs to know and who needs to learn.
The plan presented by the Education Department looks to change and update the education system. The plan requires to bring the best and the latest technology available inside the classroom. This plan is for all the country and the investment should be huge. Millions of dollars will be invested and the money won’t be enough, because the teachers have to be train in the use of the same technology that they’ll be using in the classroom. Realistically, one of the purposes of this plan is to make students more accustomed in the use of technologies and reduce the future cost of training. In the long term, it will be cheaper to let students learn through technology, save time and minimize the distance for those students that will have to do long-distance studies. The benefits are many and it will be cheaper for companies in the future, because the will not have to pay extra training for skills that the kids will be able to get in the classroom.
On the other hand, the article published in the Huffington Post show that teenagers are not using e-mail services frequently. Teenagers have opted to use social media like Facebook and Twitter, and the use of these applications increased when they added connectivity through the cell phones. For them using those services are cheap and quite new and attractive. Is the latest and they have to use them in order to be “in” among the classmates and friends. But this statistic does reflect the actual state of the use of applications among the teenagers of today. The teenagers of today will be adults in a couple of years and when they join the employment sector, they will have to use the tools of that age. We are living in the age of social media, but the next age of tomorrow will bring another technology. A technology that will be on fashion among the future teenagers. When I was a boy, I used to play games in the Atari, Sega and Nintendo consoles. But as I was getting older, the new games and new consoles became more complex and the demands of the daily life were getting numerous. I quit video games, and now that I see them, they are more realistic and at the same time, more violent. Those games are not for me anymore. But as an adult, I have other things and technologies that catch my attention.
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