Module 3A
Building a culture of tech in your school
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Goals of this module
Goals of this module
Explore the challenges of bringing other staff on board to build a culture of tech in your school:
creating a vision that inspires and drives effective use of ICT at your school,
determining the team members to develop your institutions, aims and objectives,
considering evaluation frameworks such as SAMR and TPaCK or Blooms Digital Taxonomy ,
pondering what leaders need to know and be able to do to support teachers’ needs.
2. Creating the culture
2. Creating the culture
Watch the video below.
3A First video - Building a culture of tech in your school.mp4Links relevant to the video:
New Work Order report from Foundation for Young Australians
'Dancing guy' video segment from Derek Silvers TED Talk.
Reflection
Reflection
Briefly consider your own school. Do you have a clearly articulated vision, well known to staff, students and the school community?
What would be some takeaways from this presentation for you?
What resource might motivate your staff to integrate digitech into their teaching and learning programs?
Can you identify the blockers to your aims and how might you work with staff to overcome their reluctance?
3. Considering staff capabilities
3. Considering staff capabilities
This module's activity helps you to evaluate an area of your school / institution using a pedagogical model of your choice.
The area you choose could be a faculty, year level team or another cohort. It could also be an individual teacher or yourself.
Start by exploring at least two of the pedagogical models below (click headings for more info).
TPaCK model
TPaCK model
TPaCK is a way of describing how technology, pedagogy and content knowledge fit together and indeed, overlap to enable powerful learning. As the TPaCK diagram shows, the overlap creates 6 areas in total with the ‘sweet spot’ combining all three.
SAMR model
SAMR model
SAMR is an acronym for a model of technology use developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, describing a progression in the use of technology in classrooms.
Other models
Other models
There are many other learning frameworks you could consider:
Next, use one of the tables at right to begin to evaluate where your chosen team or cohort sits in the use of technology.
Using TPaCK to evaluate.pdfUsing SAMR to evaluate.pdf4. Challenges of maintaining the culture
4. Challenges of maintaining the culture
View the abridged discussion video below. (A longer video of the discussion is available here.)
3A Second video - discussion.mp4Links relevant to the video:
ICT planning resources at FUSE (Department of Education and Training Victoria
ACS, the professional association for Australia's ICT sector
Reflection
Reflection
What were some of issues raised in the panel discussion that were relevant to your experience?
What were some of solutions proposed during the panel discussion that may prove relevant to your school?
6. Further resources
6. Further resources
Point Cook P - 9 College present their schools approach to introducing the Digital Technologies Curriculum whilst maintaining their ICT across the curriculum. The film features their Maker-space, whole school planning and student voice and agency. https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?RWW8XB
DLTV has a number of other video case studies of school stories that would prove useful https://dltv.vic.edu.au/case-studies
A comprehensive, step by step guide from the Department of Education Victoria https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?RKWG58
Excellent resources on eLearning leadership https://fuse.education.vic.gov.au/?HXHC2D
All done!
All done!
Don't forget to note down any thoughts or questions for the live component of the workshop.
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