NPR Story: The Digital Classroom

This aired yesterday: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124695289

The sound of chalk on a blackboard is something you rarely hear on many campuses these days. That's because more and more professors use technology to distribute course materials, issue grades and enhance communication with students.

DOE National Technology Plan: "Transforming American Education: Learning Powered By Technology"

On Friday, the US Department of Education released the new National Education Technology Plan, entitled “Transforming American Education: Learning Powered By Technology”.

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David Nagel reports in T.H.E. Journal that the new plan advocates radical reforms in schools:

If there were any doubts about the Obama administration's intentions toward education technology, the United States Department of Education settled them Friday with the release of the first public draft of the National Education Technology Plan (NETP). The 114-page document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum (and beyond), but to implement some major--sometimes radical--changes to education itself. 

The plan, titled "Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology," sets forth, in part, a manifesto for change, questioning many of the basic structures of American education, enumerating the principles of change that are the foundation for the plan, and setting goals and recommendations for achieving this change.