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Activity
This activity has various compulsory parts (listed
below), as well as further optional activities that
you can pursue if you are interested in the topic.
First, complete each part of the compulsory activity
below.
Part One
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Review the
whole
school improvement framework, in which various
aspects of the school are considered in terms
of conditions that can enable school and classroom
improvement when introducing ICTs at a school.
The diagram stresses alignment both within the
school and in response to global trends. When
there is alignment, and enabling conditions
exist at the school, learner and educator development
can be seen through their normal or matter of
course practices.
In reviewing
this diagram, consider the following questions:
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What sort of vision
is there about what learners and educators will
do in a school where ICTs are integrated?
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What kind of behaviours
will they exhibit?
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What would it take
to get this to happen at your school?
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Why are the principles
of experimentation, flexibility, collaboration and
communication part of the conditions that can enable
improved school practices?
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Do these principles
also relate to a certain leadership style?
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Do your attitudes
and behaviours, as a leader, shape what happens
at the school?
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How do you feel
your school is doing in terms of alignment to these
principles? Is there a culture for experimentation,
for example?
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If there is not
a spirit of experimentation at your school, what
will you have to do to change this?
Write your thoughts on these questions
in your e-diary.
Part Two
Below are five possible
tasks. Choose one of them, participate in an online discussion with your group about that task (using the Task title as the subject heading). Indicate clearly
which task you have chosen in the introduction to
your comments.
Task A - Senge
"The Ecology of Leadership"
Task B - Senge
"Asking the Right Questions"
Task C - Personal
Learning Strategy
Task D - School
Learning Strategy
Task E - Drucker
& Senge on Innovation
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Create the first slide for a presentation
(possibly using PowerPoint) which gives a motivation
for ICT integration at the school.
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In a second slide, clarify the
principles that will (and/or that do) underpin
the ICT-change process at the school. Explain
why these principles are beneficial.
- In a third slide, describe what
the school will look like with ICT integration
having been achieved. What would a newspaper or
the Education Department be saying about the school?
Document everything in the slide as if it were
a press release.
- Save the presention in a file called Motivation for ICT Integration.
- Share your presentation document with your group online.
- Comment on at least two other slides
presentations that you view and send your feedback
to your group.
- Incorporate valuable feedback received
from your peers. Keep your slides handy for your presentation
to the school.
- Make closing comments in your e-diary.
| ASSIGNMENT 1
This assignment should be attempted
at the end of Activity 4.
What to do:
Design and conduct an ICT use
and perception survey amongst staff and learners
at your school. If your school does not have ICT
facilities, concentrate on how staff and learners
perceive the value of ICT.
Analyse the results and identify
a basic strategy that recognizes and addresses
your main challenges in developing a shared vision
for ICT at your school.
This analysis document should
be no fewer than 600 words long.
What to submit:
Submit your survey document
with a summary of the responses. Save this in
a file called <your_student_number>-Elective8-survey
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e.g. 205654321-Elective8-Survey
Save your analysis document
as <your_student_number>-Elective8-survey-analysis
. e.g. 205654321-Elective8-survey-analysis
Send the saved documents as
attachments in e-mail
to your tutor (using the subject heading "Leadership - Assignment 1"). |
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