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Released: July 2008
Leading a Digital School
Edited by Mal Lee and Michael Gaffney
ACER Press, July 2008
Leading a Digital School is a must have resource for educational leaders who need to make a sensible, informed and strategic decision about how to implement digital solutions in their school.
This critical new book informs educational leaders about current developments in the use of digital technologies and presents a number of case studies demonstrating their value and complexity. It encourages leaders to engage in the process of successful change for their own school community by providing guidelines and advice drawn from emerging research.
Leading a Digital School is a rich source of information and advice about joining the new 'education revolution'. It shows clearly and concisely how schools can integrate digital technologies creatively and wisely in order to enliven teaching and support student learning.
"...Our message is that leading a digital school involves far more than investing in hardware and software and implementing a ‘technological solution.'" (p.3)
Chapters include:
- Leading schools in a digital era
- Successful learning and school design for the knowledge age
- Planning in a digital school
- Engagement with digital technology: new challenges for school and system leaders
- Fostering digitally based teaching and learning: strategic considerations
- Creating a nexus between homes and schools
- Leading a digital school: a case study—St Leonard’s College
- The ‘Good Video Game Guide’ to successful integration of digital technology: a case study
of Ingle Farm Primary School with interactive whiteboards - Staffing the digital school: in search of ground rules
- ICT infrastructure: the core components
- ICT support
- Managing and servicing the information needs of a digital school
- Developing and sustaining the digital education ecosystem: the value and possibilities of online environments for student learning
- Preparing your teachers and yourself for a digital school
- Principles and guidelines for creating a digital school
Contributors include:
- Allan Shaw, Chief Executive, AHISA
- David O’Brien, Principal, Ingle Farm Primary School
- Karen Bonanno, Executive Officer, ASLA
- Roger Hayward, Principal, St Leonard’s College
- Dr Michael Hough, Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong
- Glenn Finger, Deputy Dean (Learning and Teaching), Faculty of Education, Griffith University
- Greg Whitby, Executive Director of Schools, Parramatta Catholic Education Office
About the Editors
Mal Lee is an educational consultant specialising in the development of digital technology in schools. He is a former director of schools and secondary school principal and has written extensively on the effective use of ICT in teaching practice.
Professor Michael Gaffney is Chair of Educational Leadership at the Australian Catholic University in Canberra and has held a number of senior positions in schools and school systems and educational organisations.
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