Long-Range Plan Reflections

It's funny how much education mirrors life. If you were to ask the average person what were two things they needed more of, the majority would probably say "time" and "money." Those seemed to be the prevailing themes in the Long-Range Plan for Technology. Of course the NEED for a plan was stressed throughout, but underscoring that need was a definite emphasis on the fact that reliable and consistent funding needs to be found to keep technology (and its use) current in school districts, and efficient methods of training and the time to implement that training need to be found. What is also clear to me is that education, more than any other time in history, is undergoing a change, and it is critical that American schools find a way to work with and through that change or we will be hopelessly behind the rest of the world. What is also clear is that we can expect the same types of changes to become more prevalent and frequent in our future.