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Explore key principles and strategies for optimal technology integration in the 21st-century learning landscape, emphasizing value, pedagogical focus, quality, scalability, access, and sharing. Learn how to leverage technology to enhance learning outcomes and remove barriers to student success. References include works by Marks & Printy and Senge.
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Policy Analysis Sandy Gunter Leadership and Technology Course
Contact North – Key Principles • Adding Value • Choice of any particular technology ought to be based on the principle that it adds value to the task at hand • A Pedagogical Focus • The prime but not sole mandate for technology in learning must be on learning itself • Quality • Is defined by explicit criteria and standards
Contact North – Key Principles cont’d. • Scalability • Sustaining new costs, programs and functions is critical • Access • Provide an opportunity for all students to be successful by removing barriers • Sharing • Institutions that learn to share and co-operate can reduce costs and improve quality in many technological areas
References Marks, H. M. & Printy, S. M. (2003)Principal leadership and school performance: An integration of transformational and instructional leadership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 39(3), 370. Senge, P. M. (2006). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. Ten Guiding Principles for the Use of Technology in Learning. (2012). Contact North http://contactnorth.ca Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) https://www.tcdsb.org