schoolstechoz 2014: going digital - a toolkit for school leaders

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&Louise Cimetta, Catholic Education Office of WA

Paschal McCarthy, Mandurah Catholic College!

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The WHAT

The HOW

The WHEN, WHERE & WHY

The WHAT

How will you enable your school community to understand and support the importance of ICT infrastructure?

Questions for reflection:!

How do you know that your infrastructure is meeting the needs of your students?

Where is ICT infrastructure in your School Improvement Plan?

Reflective Questions

Do the devices that you currently have meet the education requirements of your students?

How will you decide on the best devices for your school?

Do you still have a computer lab? Is it necessary?

As the number of mobile devices increases, would it be possible to have students bring their own device from home?

Is it possible for the school to focus on maintaining the wired devices and infrastructure while families manage the mobile devices?


Is your documentation adequate?

Where is the documentation being stored?

When was it last reviewed?

Who keeps it current?

How do people access it?

Reflective Questions!

Are you comfortable with the services that are outsourced from your school?

What are your key indicators for a good relationship with your service providers?

When services are expensive, what are you willing to give up to ensure that ICT works at your school?


How do you manage the devices you have in your school today?

How will you respond to the increasing demand for devices in each classroom?

Who decides what goes on devices?

What are the expectations on students? teachers? leaders? ICT coordinators?

The HOW


What are our minimum expectations for staff in operating ICT?

What opportunities do we provide for staff, students and our community to develop their skills in operating ICT?

How do we model the effective operation of ICT?


How confident and competent are our staff in integrating ICT into different parts of the lesson (instruction, activities, plenaries, assessment) and/or different learning areas?

How confident and competent are we in integrating ICT into our work with staff?

What opportunities do we provide to develop practice in the integration of ICT?


Are we encouraging our educators to be active online to provide good examples for our students to emulate?

Are our staff aware of modelling and practising good digital citizenship in regards to intellectual property, online safety and appropriate online interactions?

Are we as a leadership team also aware of modelling and practising the above components of good digital citizenship?

Do we as a leadership team have a positive online presence?


What opportunities do we provide or encourage staff to access for offsite, onsite and online professional learning?

Where & when might the use of the following technologies support our learning needs? - Video Conferencing - On-demand online courses - Online social networks - Online mentoring & coaching

How might we use technology to access high quality human resources in other schools and share our best people with others?


What criteria do we use when purchasing new hardware or applications?

Where are our staff now in terms of creating versus consuming?

Do we ensure there is time for staff to create rather than just consume in our professional learning events?

How do we acknowledge the creation work undertaken by our staff?

What do we create for our staff, students and /or community?

Where do we share what we have created?

The WHEN, WHERE & WHY

Reflective Questions!What learning opportunities can we now provide that would not be possible without digital devices?

How have digital tools changed classroom practice in our school?

What opportunities do we have to provide authentic contexts and real life audiences for student work?

What opportunities do we have to incorporate problem solving and creativity in student tasks?


What opportunities are there to share news of our school online with families and the wider community?

How might we interact with our families and community online?

How might we share the work of the classroom with our families using digital tools?

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Where can our staff come together online to collaborate and share learning?


What opportunities are there to use online spaces to give our students a wider audience for their work?

How might we share student progress with families using digital tools?


What messages do our classrooms send about learning?

How flexible are our learning spaces?

Is our furniture and equipment flexible and mobile?

Are our classrooms designed to maximise the potential of digital technologies?


Who are our best practitioners in digital learning?

How do we develop these people and support them to build the capacity of others?

What time do we provide for staff to share and collaborate around digital learning?

What spaces are available for experimenting with new ways of teaching and learning?

How might we integrate digital learning into our current school initiatives?


What funds could we make available for action research in the potential of emerging digital technologies?

What expectations will we place on those accessing these funds?


Where do we want to be in three years time in regards to going digital?

How will we fund this (our budget, levy, parent owned)?

Have we considered the long term costs when making decisions on new technology?


Have we explored all the options (purchase outright, lease, subscription)?

What will give us the best return for our investment?

What can we learn from the journey of other schools in this area?

What do we need to stop doing to make this possible?

Louise Cimetta [email protected] http://about.me/loucimetta Twitter: @loucimetta

Paschal McCarthy [email protected] Twitter: @paschalmccarthy

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