Growing leadership of e-learning | NAPP Kōrero 6 - Resourcing
Kia ora koutou, talofa lava and welcome...
This kōrero invites you to think about those leadership skills and understandings which might be important when planning to resource e-learning in your school. We have all heard stories of schools investing heavily in technologies first and then deciding afterwards how they will be useful...or inviting students to bring in their own devices before considering how this might support the curriculum.
We know that e-learning is driven by curriculum and pedagogy - so what does this mean for leaders who need to grow a kete of services and technologies to support this in their school?
Some resources to kick start this mahi...
- “By 2016, 97.7 per cent of schools will receive ultra-fast broadband connections enabling speeds of 100 Mbps.” MOE 28 Feb 2013
- Leading e-learning - on Enabling e-Learning on TKI
- School vision - on Enabling e-Learning on TKI
- Strategic planning - on Enabling e-Learning on TKI
From Enabling e-Learning Leadership, Dr Cheryl Doig outlines the change process and explains how to sustain change. As you watch, ask yourself what kind of leadership capabilities would be needed to do this and how does this relate to resourcing?
[Link to video with transcript]
Our key questions...
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How might principals grow their capacity to lead the resourcing of e-learning?
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How might your decisions about school resourcing of e-learning impact on property, personnel or finance?
WEBINAR: You can access the webinar recording for this kōrero via this link
Replies
- dianewiechern (View all users posts) 09 May 2013 10:18am ()
There is such a temptation for schools to rush to jump onto the bandwagon of having the same gadgetry as the school down the road, and in the past, too often ICT within a school context has been like a veneer of makeup, slapped onto the regular learning programme, of course with the best of intentions. The "why are we doing this" is so important, as we see and hear in so much of the literature available around elearning. The challenge is to make haste, quickly, but strategically, and in a way that grabs teachers deeply. If it's being "done" right, surely learning won't look the same, and the shape of learning within our schools will reflect that pedagogical shift. I thought this blog reflected this quite well. For me, we have local principals meeting about BYOD, I have a school unit holder for ICT, and my inquiry is around how to strategically support sustained changes and development towards effective elearning/blended learning. Definitely some challenges in there. And vision, definitely. A core group of "evangelists" from whom others cath the spark, absolutely. And always making sure that we're asking the "why"? Bottom line - what's in this for our kids and their learning?
http://dukelyer.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/are-we-using-tech-for-tech-or-to-make-a-difference/
- dianewiechern (View all users posts) 10 May 2013 2:54pm ()
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/6-questions-for-school-boards-connecting-to-ufb
This is an interesting link for princpals and boards around future focus, and how much we need to understand. As some comments have said here, it can come down to the expertise on the BOT at the time for some schools. How to make sure all schools have equity in expertise and advice?
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