OLTD presentation as part of a course 502 http://www.viu.ca/education/OLTD/

1. Leadership & Change
Musings on leadership, technology & change

2. Exploring Open
• UNESCO Chair guide to OER
• http://oer.unescochair-ou.nl/?wpfb_dl=29

3. K12 MOOCs
• http://www.districtadministration.com/article
/moocs-go-k12-higher-ed-trend-expands-highschools
• http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files
/MOOCifying_K-12.html
• Verena:
http://openlearningonline.wikispaces.com/home

4. DS106 – Assignment Bank
• Assignments that participants in the open
online digital storytelling course ds106
complete
• Assignments are rated
• Anyone can add a new assignment, or tweak
existing
• All assignments are open resources
• http://assignments.ds106.us/about/

5. Making Practices Open
• How will I adopt open practices?
– What can I do today?
– What can I plan to do in the future?

6. Leadership, Technology & Change
Kanuka (2008)
• Understanding philosophies key in rapid change
• E-learning technologies disrupting education
• Differences of opinion on effectiveness of
technology can be reduced to perspectives on
philosophies in practice
• Philosophies are unrecognized and seldom
expressed and need to be and understood
• Philosophy of teaching and technology (neutral?)
Kanuka, H. (2008). Understanding e-learning technologies-in-practice through philosophies-in-practice. In T. Anderson (Ed.), The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2nd ed., pp.
91-118). Retrieved from http://www.aupress.ca/books/120146/ebook/99Z_Anderson_2008-Theory_and_Practice_of_Online_Learning.pdf

7. Leadership, Technology & Change
Kanuka (2008) Philosophy of technology
• Uses determinism (tech neutral)
– Effect of use on the technology and society (social)
• Technological determinism (tech not neutral)
– Effect of technology on use and society (social)
• Social determinism (tech neutral?)
– Society (social) effect on use and technology
Know your teaching and technology philosophy…
Kanuka, H. (2008). Understanding e-learning technologies-in-practice through philosophies-in-practice. In T. Anderson (Ed.), The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2nd ed., pp.
91-118). Retrieved from http://www.aupress.ca/books/120146/ebook/99Z_Anderson_2008-Theory_and_Practice_of_Online_Learning.pdf

8. TPACK
• Teaching is complicated enough, tech extends
complexity
• Computer and online technologies are
technologies like a pencil, but can be used in
different ways, rapidly change, and how they
work is not visible to the teacher
• All this creates challenges for integration
• TPACK
– technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge
Koehler, M. J., &Punya, M. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge (tpack)?. Contemporary Issues in
Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1), 60-70. Retrieved from http://www.mendeley.com/research/technologicalpedagogical-content-knowledge-tpack/

9. TPACK
• 3 knowledge bases:
– Content
– Pedagogy
– Technology
• Interaction between them is key to the model
Koehler, M. J., &Punya, M. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge (tpack)?. Contemporary
Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1), 60-70. Retrieved from
http://www.mendeley.com/research/technological-pedagogical-content-knowledge-tpack/

10. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, © 2012 by tpack.org

11. TPACK Unpacked
• Content Knowledge (subject matter)
• Pedagogical Knowledge (teaching/learning process)
• Pedagogical Content Knowledge (interpret subject matter
and represent it in multiple ways through adaptation and
tailoring for conditions)
• Technology Knowledge (productive application)
• Technological Content Knowledge (understanding how
technology and content influence/constrain each other)
• Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (understanding
how teaching/learning are influenced by technologies)

12. TPACK Understood
Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge
• Basis of effective teaching with technology and requires
understanding
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How concepts are represented by technology;
Pedagogical techniques using technologies to teach content;
Knowledge of student prior learning and how they learn;
Knowledge of how technology can address student
comprehension of difficult concepts; and
– Knowledge of how technology can build new knowledge or
strengthen existing.
•
Koehler, M. J., &Punya, M. (2009). What is technological pedagogical content knowledge (tpack)?. Contemporary Issues in
Technology and Teacher Education, 9(1), 60-70. Retrieved from http://www.mendeley.com/research/technological-pedagogicalcontent-knowledge-tpack/

13. TPACK
• Go to:
http://www.tpack.org
Explore concepts/ideas
Report back here in 15 minutes

14. Leadership & E-learning
http://www.colfinder.net/materials/Education_for_a_Digital_World/Ed
ucation_for_a_Digital_World_part3.pdf#page%3d33

15. Leadership & Technology
• While leadership, reform and change management
have been well studied and documented, little has
been written about the role leaders play in the
success or failure of e-learning program design,
development, and implementation.
• Traditional theoretical and practical constructs do not
adequately reflect emerging e-learning environments,
yet transformational leadership theory provides
insight into fundamental assumptions about change,
control, order, organizations, people, and leadership
in implementing e-learning programs.

16. Changing Context of Leadership
• Implementing educational technologies requires us
to resolve significant instructional, pedagogical, and
technological issues, all of which need to be
balanced against the purposes of learning. This type
of change requires leadership.
• Leadership involves social relations and ends,
purpose, direction, and influence. It is contextual and
contingent on the setting, and educational
technologies have changed the landscape of those
settings.

17. Leadership: Art or Science?
• Constitutive approach to leadership
• Leadership is influenced by
– Trait
– Contingency
– Situation
• No one way to lead, hence more of an art
Shortt, F. (n.d.). Leadership, an art or a science?. Retrieved from
http://www.academia.edu/2182851/Leadership_an_Art_or_a_Science

18. Leading Change: What is your plan?

19. 7 Dimensions of Transformational Leadership
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Creating a shared vision;
Setting goals;
Providing intellectual stimulation;
Supplying individual support;
Modeling effective practice;
Meeting high expectations; and
Developing a positive culture, and creating
structures that support active involvement in
decision-making.

20. Teaching with Technology
• Hooper, S., &Rieber, L. P. (1995). Teaching with
technology. In A. C. Ornstein (Ed.), Teaching:
Theory into practice, (pp. 154-170). Needham
Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
• Available from:
http://www.nowhereroad.com/twt/
• Guide to technology planning…

21. Concerns-based Adoption Model
SEDL
• http://www.sedl.org/cbam/

22. CBAM
• Change is not a one-time event, rather a process
• Focus is on change process and the individuals
crucial to the change – teachers
• Change is accomplished by individuals, and it is
highly personal
• Change is facilitated through interventions
directed toward the individuals, the innovation
itself, and the context of the change

23. CBAM – Two Levels
Stages of Concern (SoC)
• Feelings and concerns experienced by individuals
with regard to an innovation
Levels of Use (LoU)
• Individuals’ behaviours during the change process
• Goal is for individuals to think about higher-level
concerns such as the impact of the change and
others involved in the process
http://www.nationalacademies.org/rise/backg4a.htm

24. Of Interest
•
IT as a Game Changer
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/it-game-changer
•
Leadership, an Art or Science?
http://www.academia.edu/2182851/Leadership_an_Art_or_a_Science
•
Teaching with Technology
http://www.nowhereroad.com/twt/
•
Designing the Future Learning: Unthink school to rethink learning
http://email.constantfrequency.com/admin/temp/user/2251/2Rev_Designing%20the%20Future%20of%20Learning.pdf
Edudemic:
• The 3 Biggest Ways Technology Is Disrupting Education Forever
http://edudemic.com/2012/08/education-technology-disruption/
•
Why A Colorado K-12 School Now Resembles An Internet Café
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/why-a-colorado-k-12-school-now-resembles-an-internet-cafe/
•
Sweden’s Newest School System Has No Classrooms
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/swedens-newest-school-system-has-no-classrooms/

25. Where we are going…
• Competency-based learning
http://www.inacol.org/research/competency/index.php
https://sites.google.com/site/competencybasedpathways/
• BC Education Plan http://www.bcedplan.ca
• Personalized learning
• TPACK