What are the stakeholders saying as the U.S. Department of Education prepare and new National Education Technology Plan? E-School news excerpt begins with "Train every pre-service teacher to teach online in teacher-education programs at colleges and universities; invest in the development of open courseware with federal and state funding; encourage the use of technology to create new forms of assessment that better measure student learning gains; provide national standards for school IT support, with recommendations for optimal staffing levels and required skill sets..." Click to read more.
I really do hope someday in the near future every pre-service teacher will be prepped to teach online. The main challenge of offering any online program is adequate staffing of highly qualified educators. Hence the significance of A'o Kumu and its potential impact on transforming online learning for Hawaiian learners in the State of Hawai'i by first building capacity with our educators within the D.O.E. and charter schools.
Want to share your mana'o with leaders working on the national ed-tech plan? Visit their Web site at: http://edtechfuture.org.
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