As read through the long range goals of our state, I couldn't help but think to myself how far from these goals we really are. The long range goals state that every 8th grader should be tech literate, I teach Freshman English and I would say that in my 8 years of teaching I only have about 40 % of my students that I would consider Tech literate. I would like to see the programs that are talked about in this long term plan in the elementary schools, giving our young students the basics to build on. Reading theses goals has helped me to see the real need for administrators to push this tech literacy on to our teachers and to our students. With our world becoming such a global community our students are no longer just competing with American students, our job force is now world wide, and our students need to be able to compete in this world wide market.
However I see a dangerous trend happening recently in our country, with in the last few weeks, I have read and heard through the grape vine of three different districts and a few other through out the country that are cutting there Tech Departments as a way to complicate for the lose of funding with-in their district. This is a trend that will be detrimental to our students. Without Tech support our teachers and students will lose valuable resources.
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