Aysha55′s Blog

February 20th, 2009

February 20, 2009 at 7:55 pm (Blogs) (effective leader, technology)

 

 

 

 

 

I think that technology leadership is important to a school’s culture so we can determine how certain technologies can really help the learning for all students. Schools need to have knowledgeable and effective leaders, so that they can help implement effective technology because many teachers are uncomfortable and are uncertain about certain aspects involving technological advancement. They need leader to make an important recommendation who is more informed about technology and has specifics in that area. I think if students are well prepared and have full access to technology it could do a lot for their educational opportunity and the quality of their learning.

Many believe that technology is simply a burden and the tech-savy teachers are faced with disorganized environment due to many imbalances such as drop-out rates and parents not being involved and disciplinary problems.  On top of that many school have bureaucratic pressures from the government to have specific achievement in technological literacy and if that not enough school are also faced with financial constraints, technological obsolescence, security and access challenge.  The challenges that teacher are faced with is that they have to maintain their role as a class room teacher and in addition have to be smart in the technological area. Yes, there is a lot of pressure but schools play no role of preparing these teachers to develop the skills to apply the use of new media and technologies in the curriculum. I think the program that “ No Child Left Behind” is good because that give opportunity to even the less fortunate people to have access to same type of education. I simply think that if bureaucratic pressures can measure rate of literacy I think they should try to fund some school that don’t have the financial ability to get their school with the latest technology.

To have a good technology leadership in ones school they need to have a strong communication with parents, communities, administration and especially with the principal. The principal is the most important person in school because they usually have the answers to the essential questions about funding, planning and can give the teacher the quick responses that they need. If you involve all these people you can have better organization of budgeting, staffing, and goals. Also by informing people parents might have connection that can help the school be provided with better services. The more people and more support the better and can prioritize what is important and what is not.

Also for all this to be successful we have to truly understand how technology plays an important role in out environment and how it impacts everyday. We have to also examine We also have to look at the negative and the positive because yes there is a new way of teaching and school but they are also other way of bullying and being victimize. Nowadays, instead of being bullying at school student can be victim from home and can not be safe at home from predators. As teachers they must know what their student use as technology such as cell phone, laptops, and mp3 and show them the good and bad and what are appropriate times to use it and what are inappropriate times. They have to tackle the new ways of victimization they need to give classes on the first step not responding cyber bullying. The ways of teaching have also changed instead of using chalk board we use power point presentation. Today many teachers can not live without their cell phone it the same fore their students. Teachers have to learn how to integrate the technologies that student use now in the curriculum. Yes sometime children do cheat , but during test or examination time they can take away cell phone and during group project they can use their phone to take photos which later can help them in their project.  There are new video games that are out there they help children develop their spelling and grammar skills and they can have one day when they have English class teacher can incorporate this in their teaching and student would enjoy and learn. Teachers need to find out what technological things their student are using and try to incorporate that in that classroom.