EDLF 589: Leadership for Technology Integration and Implementation

3 Cr. | Fall 2005 | Thursday 7-9:45 p.m. | 111 Ruffner

Dr. Sara Dexter, Assistant Professor
Office Hours are by appointment
Phone/ Voice mail: 924-7131 | E-mail: sdexter@virginia.edu

Course Description and Objectives

Effectively integrating and implementing educational technology requires leadership for catalyzing and implementing innovations to teachers’ instructional beliefs and practices, and the school’s culture and organization. This course will focus on what school leaders (including principals, technology coordinators, and teacher-leaders) can do to facilitate examination of their own and their school community’s beliefs about instruction and the role of technology, as well as critically analyze the school culture, structures, and policies needed to effectively utilize technology. The overall course goal is to develop an understanding of leadership skills in the area of technology integration and implementation as it relates to educational change.

The course objectives are for you to know and be able to:

analyze the relationship of various educational technologies to teacher’s beliefs and practices and to local school culture, structures, and policies;
evaluate the factors critical for successful implementation of educational technology;
identify and deconstruct the representation of educational technology in a school setting, using the three macro-theoretical viewpoints of modern, post-modern, and non-modern representation; and
describe and defend a plan for leading a school’s technology integration and implementation efforts.