NAIS+2008

=21st Century Strategies for Managing and Enhancing Technology for School Leaders=

1:45 - 2:45 pm National Association of Independent Schools New York City**
 * Thursday, February 28

[HL] Team Members! Click on the topic links to the left and enter your notes there. Below is the description sent to NAIS (may no be the most up to date...Denise?) - just for your reference. Let's use this and/or the "discussion" tab above to add notes.

The link to the description that NAIS is including in the presentation materials is: http://www.nais.org/ac/eventdoc.cfm?ItemNumber=150192 The text is as follows for your reference:

21st Century Strategies for Managing and Enhancing Technology for School Leaders
Vision: Programmatic Sustainability Five regional technology leaders provide strategies to make mission-based decisions that positively impact programs and students. Topics include: transformation, management, professional development, students, and new paradigms in technology and education. Participants will gain strategies to enhance the role technology should play within schools. During a recent panel I participated in, we dealt with pre-defined questions/issues collaboratively in a "timed" fashion as to allow for the issues to be answered by the panel from their different perspectives. We tackled 4 topics and each of us (panel of 3 members) was given 4 minutes a piece to present our comments and time built in for questions. This format did not allow for much time for audience feedback and questions. We could spin this by assigning each of us to a topic and giving us a pre-determined amount of time to discuss the topic followed by time for audience questions (timed) on each discussion before we move on. Our purpose on the panel I was on was to discuss and/or answer the pre-defined questions from an "our school" perspective rather than a more global thinking model which I tend to appreciate more. Just my thoughts. Denise

Five technology leaders from each region of the country, provide strategies to making mission-based decisions to positively impact programs and students. Topics include: transformation, management, professional development, students, and new paradigms in technology and education. Participants will gain strategies to enhance the role technology should play within schools in the 21st century.

Discussion includes:


 * Transformation : helping interpret what technology tools mean, not just what they are; parallel evolution in technology to classrooms; rethinking "proprietary information" once "owned" by schools and teachers and may not be for long,


 * Management : connecting vision and mission to information resource management plans emphasizing collaboration and sustainability, 20th century budget/security needs vs. 21st century budget/security needs; shifts in technology services models emphasizing information resources management, CIO, library services, and challenges posed by ease of use; integrating overlapping solutions; ascendancy of interpersonal/teamwork/design skills by technology professionals; move the focus away from break/fix tasks; principles of good practice in technology.


 * Professional Development : effective fostering transformational technology uses; outcomes impossible without technology; ubiquitous access challenges for 20th century notions of "training" vs. 21st century realities of "the digital native"; laptops/tablets in schools; and global experiences.


 * Student Learning : adoption of national technology standards (and