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January 19th: 21st Century School Leadership: Connecting Technology to Learning Goals

When your school invests in technology, what improvements in student learning and achievement are you expecting? What improvements are you hoping for? What improvements are you planning for?

In many schools around the country, technology investments have no connection to any kind of clear set of learning goals shared across teams, schools or districts. Most schools, intentionally or not, use a "radical teacher autonomy" approach to technology integration, where schools buy technology and teachers can use the technology however they choose, or not. Many individual teachers can be very successful under this model, but it's extremely difficult to foster collective improvement. Getting better as a faculty requires working together towards using technology to meet a shared set of learning goals.

In this webinar, we will look at three alternative approaches to the "radical teacher autonomy" strategy for technology integration. All three models offer ways of developing team, school or district learning goals and tying professional development and local assessment to those goals. When technology is in the service of learning goals, faculty can work together to get better, administrators can target professional development to serve teachers, and the community can use assessment tools to measure the efficacy of technology investments.

Confirmed Presenter: Justin Reich is co-Director of EdTechTeacher, and the author of Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Teachers. Justin is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He is also the founder and project manager of the Digital Collaborative Learning Communities Project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. Justin conducts statistical research on usage statistics drawn from over 175,000 educational wikis, and he has conducted observational research in schools and classrooms in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Virginia, Georgia, and California. He has written a variety of publications on education technology integration. Justin is co-webmaster of Best of History Web Sites and co-director of The Center for Teaching History with Technology. Justin maintains his academic profile, research, and work in progress at EdTechResearcher.org.

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