Information leadership: Managing ICT resources

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Information leadership Managing ICT resources

• Module 3 Workshop 1

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Focus questions

• Can ICT be managed equitably?
• Can I provide information leadership?

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Transformation and leadership

• School as separate world
• Challenges for teachers time
• Transformation
• Leadership
• Vision
• School mirrors global environment

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Information leadership the big difference

• Similarities between teaching situations
  worldwide
• Your leadership can make the difference
• Is ICT central to curriculum developments in
  your whole-school improvement plan?
• How well are teachers in your school supported
• continuing professional development,
• ready access to ICT resources
• technical support?

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Attitudes

• Work on your own
• Complete the visual attitude chart
• Early finishers
• Open the Teacher Attitude Survey and read
  through it.
• You may like to administer this survey to your
  teachers.

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Information leadership

• Information leadership equation
• Information literacy,
• Information policy and
• Knowledge management
• Mixed success in ICT Integration why?
• Work in pairs
• Open the worksheet and discuss each point.
• Identify what action they can take to achieve
  or overcome each pitfall. (20 min)
• Open course workbook at item 3-1-2
• What sort of things as a leader will you have
  to do to support ICT integration at the school?

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Vision

• Meet in pairs
• Explore what you would like to see happening
  with ICT in your school. (10 min)
• What sort of vision is there about what
  learners and educators will do in a school where
  ICTs are integrated?
• What kind of visible results (and/or changes in
  behaviour) would you like to see at the school
  from ICT-change and within what time-frames
• The support that will be needed at the school,
  for ICT-related results, changes in behaviour and
  practices, to be achieved

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Vision

• Join pairs to form groups of four.
• Share you ICT vision with the group.
• Discuss and clarify issues that may arise. (10
  minutes)
• Work on your own.
• Open your course workbook.
• Write a press article that you imagine someone
  writing about your school in three years' time.
• What would you ideally like the reporter to
  be saying about the impact of ICT and related
  events at your school at that time? (25 min)

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ICT Policy

• Policy communicates vision to school community
• What must happen?
• Process that will take place
• Share vision
• Participatory Policy Cycle
• What policy decisions that can make my personal
  vision happen?

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Budget

• Work in pairs or with a colleague from your
  school.
• Do a visual ranking of ICT budget items.
• Login
• Teacher Microsoft
• User name province abbreviation (ask trainer)
• Password province abbreviation
• Open the budget file in Microsoft Excel
• Change the grey areas to reflect your ideas
  about ICT budget.
• You may also change the labels and add items.
• Compare your budget allocations to your visual
  ranking results.
• Were you consistent with your decisions?
• Did you allocate a greater percentage of your
  budget to your top choices in the visual ranking?