5 Considerations For Digital Age Leaders, by Lotta Larson et
all.
How can educational leaders keep up with the daily onslaught
of information when new literacies rapidly outpace traditional literacies, and
access to technology and information expands exponentially?
This article described how Principals and Teacher Leaders have
to take personal responsibilities for understanding changes in tech implementation
and integration in their buildings and classrooms versus relying on technology support
staff. It is up to the building-level staff, district personnel, and
educational leaders to move schools into the digital age.
They suggest five considerations:
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Visionary leadership
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Digital age learning cultural
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Systemic Improvement
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Excellence in Professional Practice
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Digital Citizenship
To further support a digital learning culture, educational
leaders must critically assess how much technology students have access to and
how often they access it.
To continue improving the organization through the effective
and creative use of technology resources, leaders must provide digital age
leadership.
Ongoing, consistent, leveled professional development
opportunities can users gain the technology skills and confidence needed to
teach the new literacies. Lastly, have a open communication board to discuss
polices, changes, and legal issues.
Now is the time for educational leaders to focus the
conversation on how technology fits within their classrooms to best meet their
students’ needs. The author states, “If we want our children to be competitive
on a global level in the 21st century, we need to be visibly using and talking
about these tools for learning and teaching”.
