EDAL670 - Technology for Leaders

Lesson Plan for Module 2. We will try to follow the outline listed below so that we can complete everything and try to be as efficient as possible

• Log on to D2L through this address http://d2l.andrews.edu/ using your USERNAME and PASSWORD. This should be your AU Username found at the beginning of your AU e-mail address. For example my AU e-mail address is jimjeff@andrews.edu. Therefore, my username is jimjeff and the password of course is what I have chosen.
• When you enter the D2L area go to EDAL670 - Technology for Leaders. On the very top toolbar, Click on EDAL670 CHATS Now go to EDAL670 Monday, March 3 Chat and click to enter.
• When you come to the chat area., you will see your name on the left side bar. Make sure the cursor is in the Bottom Box.. Begin to type and introduce yourself and hit send. You will see your message in the CHAT box area.
• When we begin the class we will have an Introduction to each other..Just tell us a little bit about yourself. We will have 4 or 5 people today:
• Let's begin by having a Devotional - Read The worship entitled The Debt of Leadership http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/2008/05/05/devotion.aspx
  • Answer this one question. (The only leaders qualified to lead are those who have learned to serve.
• Prayer - JJeffery
• Lesson Plan for Today
  • Welcome to EDAL670 Online Class today. We are looking at some of the aspects of Module 2
  • Today we begin by looking at some anxieties with impementing technology. Please cursor down to this section: THE BRICK WALL AND OTHER PROBLEMS as found at this website: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/rand/Teacher.html From reading this section , what are some of the major limitations and practical difficulties associated with incorporating technology into schools?
  • Let's take a look at this site http://www.fno.org/sum99/reluctant.html and this statement about "Sally Jane" . Sally Jane is a technology reluctant. Although she has been teaching as long as computers have been known to schools, she has resisted their use while concentrating instead upon good teaching.:
  • Why are some teachers wary of the latest trend or newest requirement in educational practice? 2. What are some characteristics of teachers who are reluctant to use technology in instruction?
  • Let's read another view of what can be done to overcome staff resistance to technology. Go to this website http://eduscapes.com/sessions/lumber/lumber4.htm. What lessons has the author learned?
  • Let's now look at this website (although it is older is has some grea thoughts) http://www.fno.org/FNOSept93.html Cursor down to Barriers to New Technology-Part One: Staff Balkanization - Reprise by Jamie McKenzie
  • MacKenzie says that "Great technology plans are unlikely to overcome staff resistance or achieve program integration unless district or building planners take into consideration the culture of schools and the types of groups or factions which arise whenever change is promised or threatened. If we were to spread teachers out along a spectrum representing the degree to which they embrace new technologies (or any educational innovation) with enthusiasm and comfort, most staffs would fall into three main groups:"
  • What are these 3 major groups and do you know any people like this?
  1. Let's now look at this article Creating Incentives for Technology Use found here: http://www.stocktonettc.net/tech/instruction/incentives.htm
  2. Let's discuss how "Incentives help ensure that teachers who face escalating demands on their limited time receive the training they need to prepare their students for the technological workplace of the future."
  3. Now let's look at this final article Technology Leadership: A Lit Review found here: http://imet.csus.edu/imet1/mica/technology_leadership_lit_review.htm
  4. Cursor down to the Section entitled Staff Development. What are some of the most signidicant Staff Development models?
  5. Thanks for working through this section.

Thanks very much again for entering into this method of class and community building, . Hope that this class time was profitable...