1. http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/uploads/LLDecArticle.pdf
This is a five-part piece that effectively integrates the technology leader's responsibilities to direct riders motivate elephants, rally herds, and shrink changes. There wasn't much in the way of finding the feeling. perhaps because technology integration has to happen whether one is passionate about it or not.
This article aligns the ISTE's NETS for Administrators with creating a shared vision for embedding technology integration, whatever the initiatives might be. There are five major considerations involved with integrating innovation technology into a school district's classrooms: visionary leadership, digital-age learning culture, systemic improvement, excellence in professional practice, and digital citizenship. Districts would behoove themselves to enact a technology plan before an urgent need arises. Educational technology leaders need to provide a collaborative vision to teachers across all academic disciplines so that these technology leaders can provide clarity and reduce anxiety about the increased use of information technologies in the classroom. There also needs to be a certain level of confidence that the technology tools are used effectively, and not just by pockets of teachers in the schools. Policies and procedures governing technology tools also needs to be articulated in the district's strategic vision. District leaders must also afford its teachers opportunities to grow their technological skills (in-service, conferences, workshops, seminars, coursework), and provide incentives to learn as they cannot cross their fingers and hope that educators will sharpen their skills on their own. Finally, technology leaders need to ensure that teachers and students develop the requisite skills to become responsible digital citizens so that they understand the “social, ethical, and legal issues and responsibilities as
related to technology.”
From educational technology consultant Randy Thomas's blog, he offers five tools that can assist a district's initiative to go paperless by varying degrees. My elements of a vision focused on eliminating printed works of literature, and for a few courses, that will happen for free. In the event that all texts cannot be accessed for free department wide, and, at best, school wide, the blog and website offers many ways to save money and time by going paperless. There are a lot of free software applications that can motivate district elephants to make the push for digital text and jettison printed books.
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