Product Description
Appropriate for upper-level college undergraduate and graduate-level education courses including Technology for School Administrators, School Leadership, and Introduction to Education Administration.Combining theory and practice, this book offers a fresh perspective for those administrators and technology coordinators facing the ever-changing issues of leadership of technology in schools. The emergence of technology and its application to the classroom, have forced planning, staff development, and funding of technology programs to the forefront of the school agenda, thus making this text a valuable reference. This book provides site-based models, sample lesson ideas, and specific instructional strategies for establishing success in managing technology and the leadership that is required to do so.
From the Back Cover
Balancing theory and practice, Leadership in Instructional Technology presents a variety of new ideas and new ways of thinking about the value and use of technology in a classroom setting. Central to the book are the applications of educational technology it provides for the people responsible for the education and development of young children and for improving schools and school programs. This book challenges the values and beliefs of the current "community of leadership" regarding classroom technology and presents specific instructional changes to help the reader apply the ideas advanced within the book. It seeks to change the instructional culture into a constructivist/ cognitive learning theory model from a traditional/transmission model. It also covers planning, funding, and staff development to provide the reader with site-based models. An essential reference book and resource for school administrators and school board members.
