8. Week 2 Activity 3
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| Course: | Belize: Train the Trainers for C-DELTA |
| Book: | 8. Week 2 Activity 3 |
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| Date: | Saturday, 18 May 2024, 7:07 PM |
Table of contents
- 1. Making decisions about / Driving change in your Ed-Tech landscape
- 2. Learning outcomes
- 3. Quiz 2
- 4. How did you do?
- 5. Where are you placed on this continuum?
- 6. Warnings from history
- 7. Change Scenarios
- 8. Donna and Mike
- 9. Activity: Using the table below compare Donna and Mike’s cases for change
- 10. FORUM: Different perspectives in change
- 11. Synchronous Discussion: Visions and visionaries
- 12. Your case for Change
- 13. Data & decision making
1. Making decisions about / Driving change in your Ed-Tech landscape
Module 5 uses the concept of digital scenarios to help you
Unpack your digital responsibilities,
Equipped you with approaches, techniques and frameworks that will enable you to make informed digital decisions.
2. Learning outcomes
Recognize the range of different stories leaders tell about their digital journey and case for change that they made.
Identify the various factors and sources that influence these digital stories
Distinguish between the different assumptions that others hold about technologies role in driving change
3. Quiz 2
Lets start with a Quiz about different ways digital technologies are viewed in the 21st Century4. How did you do?
Were most of these concepts something you had heard of before?
If not you can read more about these in Module 5 pg 6&7
5. Where are you placed on this continuum?
I am digital visionary who dreams of tech futures |
-------------------- | I am only interested in using tech when it’s benefits have been proved. |
I am open to new innovations and new possibilities. |
-------------------- | Facts come first and I managing risks associated with innovation |
I am confident about education in the future and comfortable stepping out into this changing environment |
-------------------- | I work with others to build educational environments that are both durable and flexible to weather an unpredictable world. |
My institution identifies trends and can craft a strategy that will help us take advantages of future changes. |
-------------------- | My institution is not in a rush to follow fads and will adapt to changing conditions when necessary |
I am networked and connected and have the know how to prepare students for the 21st century. | -------------------- | I am immersed in my own community and culture and know what my local community needs from students |
6. Warnings from history
Not everything about digital technology is positive though.
Technology journalist Audrey Watters prides herself on telling the other side of the story. Her blog HackEducation hackeducation.com
Read the 100 Worst EdTech debacles of the decade which she wrote at the end of 2019. It definitely gets one thinking.
7. Change Scenarios
To respond appropriately to the opportunities and risks inherent with making choices about digital and education, leaders will need to go beyond looking to Twitter, TED or technology manuals, and ask themselves critical questions about the intersection of education and digital technology. A case for change is needed.
In the next activity you will use two Change Scenarios to explore two different educators views of change.
8. Donna and Mike
Read the two scenarios and use the questions provided to compare the two different change scenario’s
What is their vision for their institution?
How have they gone about making a case for change?
What has changes have been proposed?
How are students and academics affected?
How will they achieve this change?
9. Activity: Using the table below compare Donna and Mike’s cases for change
Donna | Mike | |
What is their vision for their institution? | ||
How have they gone about making a case for change? | ||
What has changes have been proposed? | ||
How are students and academics affected? | ||
How will they achieve this change? |
10. FORUM: Different perspectives in change
Both Donna and Mike are making a case for change. They have articulated different ways that their institution is “rebooting education”.
Go to the Change Scenario Forum: Pick either Donna or Mike’s Change Scenario Vision and reflect on this using the question prompts.
11. Synchronous Discussion: Visions and visionaries
Focus questions for synchronous discussion 2
Can you name people in your institution/organisation who are also making “a case for change”? In what ways are their visions similar/different from Donna and Mike’s visions?
Do you have a vision for a digital future? Can you succinctly articulate what you propose for your organization?
What could you do to strengthen your case for change?
What is the likelihood that your vision will be realised?
12. Your case for Change
We’ve suggested thus far that digital leaders start the decision making process with a vision. Instead of starting with a technology solution.
Before we make a case for change, we also need to look at what is needed. When making decisions, there is a tension between trying to identify needs vs offering solutions. Information (or data) about inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, satisfaction etc. allows us to identify needs.
Use surveys and questionnaires to systematically gather data about your needs
13. Data & decision making
Using the OER “Technology-Enabled Learning Implementation” (developed by Anup Kumar Das and Sanjaya Mishra), included in the book authored by Adrian Kirkwood and Linda Price, gather data to identify needs that might inform your decision making.