2012年3月3日星期六

Chapter6 - leadership and new tools


Since it is very different that today's students of school are from what it was even a few years ago. Those students using instant messaging, blogging, twittering and watching video from YouTube outside of school. In order for schools to prepare students for the future, the leaders must make some changes, to help teachers make the transition to using new technologies and new methods. Such transition we named Leading in the 21st century.
The following six qualities are the element for a school district to achieve success in the 21st century.
  • Individual excellence
  • Organizational skills
  • Courage
  • Results (goal-oriented)
  • Strategic skills
  • Operation skills
 So what shall we do? How to do make the transition operate smoothly? Here is a good suggestion - use Web 2.0 tools. For teachers, blogs can replace e-mail as a way to communicate with students, parents, or other educators. We also have a lot of examples that teacher whose using blog to achieve their teaching goals. So let's have a look of the twelve reasons for an administrator to blog:
  • Sharing news and events
  • Progress monitoring
  • Status alerts
  • Marketing
  • Public relations
  • Community building
  • Customer relations
  • Branding
  • Creating "customer evangelists"
  • Thought leadership
  • Advocacy
  • Replacing the school Web site
 
Beside blogging, setting up the infrastructure for school or district computing is a complicated and expensive effort. "Open source is programming code that is freely available to use and to modify, upgrade, and customize."(Solomon & Schrum, 2007). As the web2.0, new tools, new school book mentioned that Linux is a free open-source software, so the source code is available to everyone. A growing number of school districts are using the Linux operating system.
Linux website: https://www.linux.com/
NETS-A (National Educational Technology Standards for Adiministrators)
All school administrators should be prepared to meet the following standards and performance indicators. These standards are a national consensus among educational stakeholders regarding what best indicates effective school leadership for comprehensive and appropriate use of technology in schools.
1. Leadership and Vision - Educational leaders inspire a shared vision for comperhensive integration of technology and foster an environment and culture conducive to the realization of that vision. Education leaders:
A. facilitate the shared development by all stakeholders of a vision for technology use and widely communicate that vision.
B. maintain an inclusive and cohesive process to develop, implement, and monitor a dynamic, long-range, and systemic technology plan to achieve the vision.
C. foster and nurture a culture of responsible risk taking and advocate policies promoting continuous innovation with technology.

Citations
 Solomon, G., & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0, new tools, new schools. Eugene, OR: Intl Society for Technology in educ.

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