The White House Agrees with us!

I was just reading the Executive Summary of the  Sept 2010 Report to the President by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) called: PREPARE AND INSPIRE:
K-12 EDUCATION IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) FOR AMERICA’S FUTURE.   Quoting a portion of Recommendation #4:

Information and computation technology can be a powerful driving force for innovation in education, by improving the quality of instructional materials available to teachers and students,
aiding in the development of high-quality assessments that capture student learning, and accelerating the collection and use of data to provide rich feedback to students, teachers, and schools. Moreover, technology has been advancing rapidly to the point that it can soon play a transformative role in education. Realizing the benefits of technology for K-12 education, however, will require active investments in research and development to create broadly useful technology platforms and well-designed and validated examples of comprehensive, integrated “deeply digital” instructional materials.

To learn more about the National Science Board  report on recommended ways to foster the development of STEM professionals, entrepreneurs, and inventors.

• Read the White House press release and blog on Change the Equation and learn more aboutChange the Equation
• Read the eight-page executive summary of the PCAST report Prepare and Inspire: K–12 Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) for America’s Future
• Read the full report (108 pages)
• Read information on the report at the NSB website
• Members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology talk aboutteachers who inspired them in science (video)