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Knowledge Management. Three knowledge management challenges. Retaining the knowledge of outgoing educators; Orienteering new educators to a knowledge sharing culture; Establishing and maintaining a knowledge sharing culture. Key questions.
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Three knowledge management challenges • Retaining the knowledge of outgoing educators; • Orienteering new educators to a knowledge sharing culture; • Establishing and maintaining a knowledge sharing culture.
Key questions • How well do in-service teacher development programs cater for changing needs? • How effectively do teachers share their accumulated wisdom, experiences and skills? • How common is it for teachers to mentor younger, or less experienced teachers? • Are there continuing experiments and explorations to find better ways of teaching and running schools? • Are we effectively using the whole range of skills and knowledge of our staff? Do we even know what these are? • Are we effectively using the whole range of skills and knowledge of our students?
Technologies to support knowledge management • Applications for capturing information; word processor, spreadsheet , web page, email, school admin programmes, EMIS programmes • Applications for cataloguing and storing information; spreadsheet, database , school administration, EMIS programmes • Applications for transforming information; spreadsheet, mindmapping, online thinking tools • Applications for disseminating information; and presentation, publications, email, web pages