Closing the Loop in Education Technology

Original Article:  http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/08/09/closing-the-loop-in-education-technology.aspx

When I read this article I was a bit surprised to find out to just how few dollars are being spent on technology in schools, only 1.6 of the overall spending in education.  That's really not an investment at all.  I'd say technology is looked at as more of an afterthought to those people in charge of making crucial decisions about education.  It's an extra curriculum activity at my school.  The education profession has to start looking at what is going on in the world today.  The way technology is driving the economy here in the 21st Century somehow is ignored in our schools.  They rather continue to talk about test scores.  Notice how much attention is spent on test scores but our education system in this country continues to fall behind other countries in them.  It's my hope that we start to make educational technology more of a priority, just lake mathematics, language arts, and reading is to a school.  Maybe if we decide to invest in the things that matter, the things that are relevant today, like educational technology, our schools can see an increase in student achievement.