Emerging technology and achieving systematic change and improvement

within Scottish education

Jaye Richards-HillTuesday April 23rd 2013

The Kindle as a disruptive technology- it does new things in better ways… But users must see the ‘Why’

To inspire and engage starts with the clarity of WHY…

Genuine user engagement starts with understanding WHY

(Simon Sinek – TED 2011)

billions of dollars were spent on instructional technology in theK-12 educational realm in the 1990s and that this influx of money failed to provide promised benefits claimed by proponents of instructional technology

(Cuban 2001)

Extent of the curriculum that needs to be covered during the year (81.4%)

Time constraints (71.7%) Time required for preparing ICT-based activities (60.4%) Availability of infrastructure (53.5%) Amount of quality content (50.7 %) Lack of in-classroom teacher support (50.2%) Lack of participation of teachers in decision making

(43.4%) Need for professional development (37%).

(Charalambos Vrasidas / April 2010/ elearn magazine)

Why Don't Teachers Adopt Technology? 

Mishra and Koehler TPaCK model (2007)

(SAMR model of change - Ruben Puentedura)

The role of school leader is vital, not only to the health of any school, but also to the success of *any* educational change. For educational change to become successful, the involvement of educational leaders is crucial…

(Michael Fullan - 2001

The key is the alignment between the leadership vision for technology integration and the individual teachers’ vision of technology integration. This alignment is crucial. Of course, all this is dependent on leaders being not only school leaders but also technology leaders for their schools

(Gary Shattuck – 2008)

Managing expectations across the Country is an absolutely crucial task. We need to be honest and transparent

Communicate good news better…

SWAN Tablet procurement

Framework GlowPlus ICT Excellence group Current Glow

migration BYOT Filtering policies Capacity building at

national level

Slide 2 – alsquared.com Slide 3 – Amazon.com Slide 5 – spcs.richmond.edu Slide 6 – Ruben Puentedura Slide 7 - MacKenty.org Slide 9 – pmtips.net Slide 10 – toonpool.com

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