Using Technology to Promote Learning

How will you as a leader utilize technology to promote a shared vision for learning?

Innovation and Risk Taking

• "I don't think my job is that complicated...my job is to provide resources for teachers and to listen to teachers. Hire good teachers, see what they need, and then get it into their classrooms." (Demski, 2012)

Innovation and Risk Taking

• Remove barriers
• Re-evaluate the school policy on technology

Collaboration

• Time to learn from eachother
• Staff Meetings
• Utilize the Team Drive
• Twitter: #DHSteachers

Open up!

• Be open to new ideas
• After school "tech studies"

Continuous Learning

• I need to learn too
• PLNs
• Conferences (MACUL)
• Research (Twitter)

Resources

• Locate and Provide opportunities for
• Bring in PD
• Foster blazing trails to find funds

Visionary Focus

• "Allow the work to be focused by your vision, because there are a million different things that are crossing the principal's desk every day. What is the stuff that matters?

Visionary Focus

• "The stuff that matters is the stuff that's really going to contribute to your student's learning." (Demski, 2012)

Visionary Focus

• Reflect on what it is that I’m really conveying to teachers that I value, focus my time on and encourage them to do the same. This is the fundamental vision of what our school is.

How you will use technology to improve organizational and learning efficiency.?

To do this...

• Teachers and Students interaction will need to change.
• From "sage on the stage, to guide on the side!"

Teachers and Students

• Students and Teachers using technology to collaborate with each other to learn, design, explore, create, new things and in new ways that we can’t without technology.
• It can’t just be to substitute for or “liven up” what we already are doing.

Teachers and Students

• Virtual labs
• Modeling in science and math
• Authors, Scientists, Engineers, Editors, Publishers, Historians,...experts in the fields come in virtually as guests to the class.
• Use equipment like telescopes that we don’t and won’t have access to in the school.

Teachers and Students

• Formatively assess
• Practice with more immediate and targeted feedback
• View resources from the teacher for reteaching; like video recordings of lectures and collaboration.
• Students to collaborate outside of school in study sessions and talks.

Institutionally

• As an institution, using tech to work more efficiently and effectively in a day and age where our perception at the very least is that we have less ($, time, energy,...) but are asked to do more.

Institutionally

• Collaboration on curriculum, assessments, instructional practices,
• Share video tip sheets
• Cut down on meetings about info and re-target on task/goal oriented meetings.
• Curate important documents and info utilizing team drive

Institutionally

• Create tech video library of “how to” videos for new teachers.
• Curate best instructional practice videos aligned to the 5D+ instructional framework for administrators and coaches to reference to teachers and teachers to access for exemplars.

References:

• Demski, Jennifer (2012). 7 Habits of Highly Effective Tech-leading Principals. the Journal: Leadership in Print. 1105 Media Inc. Brooklyn, NY.