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Describe how leadership should respond to the chosen issue by 8 June and discuss the differences of your own submission from the contributions of others in the following week.
The feedback forms for this assessment are located at:
http://learn.unisa.edu.au/file.php?file=/fbf/100766/Ass1feedbackform.docx
Student technologies in the school....ignore them?
To teach as we have always done will not develop relevant skills sets nor prepare students to succeed in the 21st century. I believe that we need to see through the eyes of our students and embrace existing and new technologies.
I have spoken to teachers from numerous Australian schools that have adopted a BYOD policy and have found it successful. Schools who have found a BYOD policy successful generally have a whole school approach to cyber safety and digital citizenship. Maybe more leaders should involve students in the decision making process about their education?
Kharbach, M. (2012) Twenty-first Century Skills For Students. Education Technology Solutions, 48, 47- 50.
48, 72-76.
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I believe that many schools are not currently adopting a BYOD policy due to fear of safeguarding students from potential online risks and security issues in terms of theft. However, I also believe that this is a top-down approach to policy making. I believe that the majority of the time it is the leaders within a school who make the decisions ‘for’ the students, not ‘with’ the students. As Peter DeWirr blogged, “When schools ban handheld devices there is a hidden message that is sent to students as well. That message is that schools are decades behind and are disengaged with the very population they are supposed to be educating” (Blackman, 2012, p. 74).
I have spoken to teachers from numerous Australian schools that have adopted a BYOD policy and have found it successful. Schools who have found a BYOD policy successful generally have a whole school approach to cyber safety and digital citizenship. Maybe more leaders should involve students in the decision making process about their education?
Kharbach, M. (2012) Twenty-first Century Skills For Students. Education Technology Solutions, 48, 47- 50.
Blackman, J. (2012) Mobile technologies- Whole School Approaches. Education Technology Solutions, 48, 72-76.
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To teach as we have always done will not develop relevant skills sets nor prepare students to succeed in the 21st century. I believe that we need to see through the eyes of our students and embrace existing and new technologies.
Students today, get limitless information, they have access 24/7! “The average student spends at least four hours daily interacting with their digital gadgets” (Kharback, 2012, p. 47). “Telstra’s 2011 Smartphone Index stated that 61 per cent of Australian smartphone owners accessed the internet on a daily basis. The index also predicted that by the middle of 2012, smartphone ownership in Australia is expected to grow to 60 percent of the Australian Mobile-owning population” (Blackman, 2012, p. 72). Why not embrace a BYOD policy, embrace technology that students are using and want to use?
http://youtu.be/ZL4ssuCDRXs
I believe that many schools are not currently adopting a BYOD policy due to fear of safeguarding students from potential online risks and security issues in terms of theft. However, I also believe that this is a top-down approach to policy making. I believe that the majority of the time it is the leaders within a school who make the decisions ‘for’ the students, not ‘with’ the students. As Peter DeWirr blogged, “When schools ban handheld devices there is a hidden message that is sent to students as well. That message is that schools are decades behind and are disengaged with the very population they are supposed to be educating” (Blackman, 2012, p. 74).
I have spoken to teachers from numerous Australian schools that have adopted a BYOD policy and have found it successful. Schools who have found a BYOD policy successful generally have a whole school approach to cyber safety and digital citizenship. Maybe more leaders should involve students in the decision making process about their education?

The feedback forms for this assessment are located at:
http://learn.unisa.edu.au/file.php?file=/fbf/100766/Ass1feedbackform.docx
Student technologies in the school....ignore them?
To teach as we have always done will not develop relevant skills sets nor prepare students to succeed in the 21st century. I believe that we need to see through the eyes of our students and embrace existing and new technologies.
Students today, get limitless information, they have access 24/7! “The average student spends at least four hours daily interacting with their digital gadgets” (Kharback, 2012, p. 47). “Telstra’s 2011 Smartphone Index stated that 61 per cent of Australian smartphone owners accessed the internet on a daily basis. The index also predicted that by the middle of 2012, smartphone ownership in Australia is expected to grow to 60 percent of the Australian Mobile-owning population” (Blackman, 2012, p. 72). Why not embrace a BYOD policy, embrace technology that students are using and want to use?
http://youtu.be/ZL4ssuCDRXs
I believe that many schools are not currently adopting a BYOD policy due to fear of safeguarding students from potential online risks and security issues in terms of theft. However, I also believe that this is a top-down approach to policy making. I believe that the majority of the time it is the leaders within a school who make the decisions ‘for’ the students, not ‘with’ the students. As Peter DeWirr blogged, “When schools ban handheld devices there is a hidden message that is sent to students as well. That message is that schools are decades behind and are disengaged with the very population they are supposed to be educating” (Blackman, 2012, p. 74).
I have spoken to teachers from numerous Australian schools that have adopted a BYOD policy and have found it successful. Schools who have found a BYOD policy successful generally have a whole school approach to cyber safety and digital citizenship. Maybe more leaders should involve students in the decision making process about their education?
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- Week 5-6
- Week 7
- Week 8-98 Nothing on course page
- Week 9 and 10 Online forum on course page
- Week 11
- Week 12
3. Open discussions
- How to create a wiki space

- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
-5-6
- Week 67
- Week 7-98-9
- Week 11
3. Open discussions

Week 1 Forum Discussion:
I thought I might discuss one of the key components of Educational Leadership and share with you an example of how it has been used. The key component that I would like to discuss is strategic planning. Ten years ago when interactive whiteboards were being introduced to schools, our Educational Leader at the time saw the huge potential of these resources in terms of student learning and teaching pedagogy transformation. One board was initially purchased for teachers to view. This sparked an interest amongst teachers and student. Several other boards were then purchased and strategically placed in a range of classrooms across different faculty areas and year levels. Teachers who wanted to use the boards then negotiated times to book the rooms to use the technology. This strategic planning increased the motivation of teachers to use the technology and then request a board in their own classroom. If the Educational Leader had simply purchased multiple boards, installed them in teachers’ classrooms and said, “Here is a tool, use it”, the degree to which the boards would have been used would have been less. Our Educational Leader then continued with strategic planning to create a school with the most interactive whiteboards in the Southern Hemisphere.
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4. Did you know? (2008 but still interesting)
5. What do you expect the furture to hold?
My official response soon.Official Response: I value your opinion, however, if you could see the possibilities for learning through ICTs would you be interested? Would you be willing to have a look?
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10. Resources
Find out what resources teachers want and fight for them (its true, schools only have a certain amount of money to spend). You also need to do your own research before approaching higher leadership in terms of purchasing ICTs for your school. Once you have the rsources, teach your staff how to use them. You can't simply give teachers a new tool and expect them to change pedagogy.
I could come up with some more ideas.
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