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Leadership and learning with ICT : voices from the profession
(2006)
  • Kathryn Moyle, University of Canberra
Abstract

Leadership matters’ and ‘start with the pedagogies, not the technologies’, say Australian educators. Voices from the profession provides an overview of what a cross-section of over 400 of Australia’s educational leaders saw in 2005 as factors that contribute to how leadership supports learning with information and communication technologies (ICT) in Australian schools. It presents some of the issues raised and solutions proposed by the educational leaders who participated in this research. This paper draws on the words of the participants throughout, to illustrate findings and to give the report authenticity. This research shows that integrating ICT into teaching and learning is affording educators opportunities to shift from teacher- centred to student-centred learning. Participants indicated that to integrate ICT into teaching and learning requires schools to have a clear ‘whole school’ strategic focus on learning, teaching and organisational improvement; and this requires leadership. They suggested a whole school approach to incorporating ICT into teaching and learning requires taking into account philosophical, pedagogical, physical and practical considerations in an integrated way across a school, where professional learning and in-school processes are regularly reviewed and revisited. The Main Report of this paper outlines participants’ responses according to the following headings: ‘teaching and learning with ICT’; ‘school leadership’; ‘professional learning’; ‘school organisation’; and ‘future directions’. During the research, participants regularly indicated that they benefited from visiting other schools to see how the leaders and teachers in those schools undertook their work integrating ICT into teaching and learning. They also indicated that where school visits were not possible or practical, case studies were a useful way of highlighting other schools’ approaches and solutions. Part 2 of this paper then, provides three case studies to highlight school organisation, professional learning and models of leadership gathered from schools integrating ICT into teaching and learning. [Author abstract, ed]

Keywords
  • Educational leadership,
  • ICT in education,
  • Information and communications technology,
  • Learning,
  • Professional development,
  • School organisation,
  • Case studies,
  • Primary education,
  • Secondary education
Publication Date
August, 2006
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Copyright Teaching Australia - Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership 2006
Citation Information
Kathryn Moyle. "Leadership and learning with ICT : voices from the profession" (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kathryn_moyle/13/